Richard Collins

Richard is a highly experienced French- and German-speaking family lawyer who advises domestic and international clients on every aspect of family law including complex financial and business cases, private children issues, cohabitant disputes and cases involving offshore trusts and tracing assets.

Richard specialises in cases which involve depression and mental health and addictive behaviour issues including alcoholism and substance misuse. He has particular expertise in civil partnership cases, UK and foreign child relocation cases, and cross-border jurisdiction disputes.

He also advises those who are not married on disputes over property, child arrangements and financial claims for the maintenance of children.

Richard’s clients are a wide range of professionals in business, law and finance, individuals with private wealth, those in the arts, media and in the public eye and their spouses and partners. While experienced in complex claim litigation, he is also committed to dispute resolution solutions and is a trained collaborative lawyer and mediator.

He is a regular contributor to the media on topical family issues.

Richard qualified as a solicitor in 1996. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2018, he was a partner at Charles Russell Speechlys from 2005.

Resolved a complex international case with assets in different jurisdictions including offshore trusts

Acted for a high-net-worth mother in private children relocation court proceedings followed by children residence proceedings

Concluded out-of-court settlements for City and legal professionals and their spouses and partners

Acted for professionals, their spouses and partners specialising in issues surrounding depression, alcoholism and addictive behaviours and obtained protection orders from the court (non-molestation) and removal from property orders (occupation order)

Litigated a successful high-value case following asset tracing of assets hidden in different jurisdictions

Maintained confidential the identity of high-profile media and arts clients in the public eye and resolved their matters outside the court system

Succeeded for a spouse in a jurisdiction race case where she was awarded significantly more in England that she might have received in the competing European jurisdiction

Acted for a high-net-worth entrepreneur on a post-nuptial agreement

Acted for a spouse and secured the return of the children following their wrongful removal to the UK

Adopted the collaborative law approach and assisted civil partners resolve financial and property issues

Advised a wealthy farmer’s wife in rural West Wales (dairy, arable)

Advised a wealthy farmer in Lincolnshire (arable)