Roxane Reiser
UK Bar Guide 2025
Band 4 : Family: Matrimonial Finance
Band 4
About
Provided by Roxane Reiser
Practice Areas
Roxane is a financial remedy practitioner with a particular expertise in jurisdiction and enforcement disputes. Roxane’s cases typically involve assets held overseas, assets held in trust or via corporate entities. Roxane appears in cases heard up to High Court level, led and in her own right.
Many of her cases have international elements. She was called to the Geneva Bar in 2018 and has appeared before courts in the French speaking part of Switzerland on several occasions. She regularly advises on Swiss family law and related Swiss private client matters.
Notable Cases:
JK v LM [2024] EWHC 1442 (Fam)
HRH Haya Bint Al Hussein v HH Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum [2021] EWFC 94
Career
Call 2017
Professional Memberships
Inner Temple
Ordre des Avocats de Genève
AIJA
Association des Juristes Franco-Britanniques
Publications
July 2024 – Financial Remedies Journal, “Proving Foreign Law in Financial Remedy Proceedings”
2020 to date – FLBA Family Law Affairs Magazine, author of the International Update
September 2022 – International Family Law Journal, issue 4, ‘Dealing with Swiss assets in financial remedy proceedings’
May 2021 – Family Law Week “Anglo-Swiss Divorce Proceedings Post Brexit: Part 2 – Recognition and Enforcement of financial orders”
March 2021 – Family Law Week ‘Anglo-Swiss Divorce Proceedings Post-Brexit: Part 1 – Divorce recognition’
September 2020 – Resolution, The Review, Issue 207, “Cross-border Q&As on International Nuptial Agreements.”
March 2020 – Family Law Week, “Recognition of financial remedy orders in Switzerland”
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Roxane Reiser is a matrimonial finance specialist who is noted for her skill in cross-border cases. Her practice is split between England and Switzerland as she is admitted to practice at the Geneva Bar, and her cases regularly involve Swiss, French and German elements.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Roxane is a brilliant lawyer. Her written work is clever, persuasive, and carefully prepared. She has a sharp tactical mind and is generally two or three steps ahead of her opponent."
"She's excellent at cases involving international jurisdictions. She's pragmatic as well."
"Roxane was methodical, well spoken and really had the judge's attention."
"Roxane is a brilliant lawyer. Her written work is clever, persuasive, and carefully prepared. She has a sharp tactical mind and is generally two or three steps ahead of her opponent."
"She's excellent at cases involving international jurisdictions. She's pragmatic as well."
"Roxane was methodical, well spoken and really had the judge's attention."
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