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Band 2
About
Provided by Sital Fontenelle
Practice Areas
Sital is Head of Department for the Family and Divorce team. She specialises in complex financial matters within relationship breakdown including international jurisdictional cases. She has extensive experience in difficult cases involving off-shore trusts, family businesses, tracing assets, third party interests and inherited wealth. Sital is known for her strategic advice in complex cases, and has great instincts in manoeuvring the case to achieve the right result for her clients.
Examples of her cases include: acting for the Wife in complex financial remedy proceedings where the assets totalled £38m plus and the matter proceeded to a 5 day final hearing; acting for the Wife of an American banker with worldwide assets and representing her at the Arbitration; acting for a lawyer in financial remedy proceedings involving complex trust structures and off-shore interests with assets of over £100m.
Sital won silver in the "Woman of the Year - Future Leaders (Partner)" category at the Citywealth Powerwomen Awards 2020.
Career
Qualified in September 2003.
Professional Memberships
Sital is an active member of the Resolution Cohabitation Committee. She presented at Resolution’s annual conference in 2019, 2017 and in 2011, and is a regular contributor to the committee’s publications.
Chambers Review
UK
Sital Fontenelle is an experienced partner who has recently become head of the firm's family department.
Sital Fontenelle is head of the family law team at Kingsley Napley. She has an impressive practice that sees her regularly assist clients with leave to remove cases and other private child arrangements during and after divorce.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Sital is an incredibly energetic lawyer who has great instincts and great interpersonal skills with clients."
"Sital is a brilliant lawyer. She is sharp, knowledgeable, empathetic and very solution-driven."
"Sital is knowledgeable and really comes up with creative solutions. She brings a real energy is to do the best by the client in the most efficient and collaborative way possible."
"Sital is a truly international lawyer. She is great at what she does and will go even further. She is brilliant with international family law cases."
"Sital is a really good litigator with a great practice in prenuptial agreements; she always sorts them out really quickly. She is very pleasant to work with."
"Sital is an absolute star."
"Sital is an incredibly energetic lawyer who has great instincts and great interpersonal skills with clients."
"Sital is a brilliant lawyer. She is sharp, knowledgeable, empathetic and very solution-driven."
"Sital is knowledgeable and really comes up with creative solutions. She brings a real energy is to do the best by the client in the most efficient and collaborative way possible."
"Sital is a truly international lawyer. She is great at what she does and will go even further. She is brilliant with international family law cases."
"Sital is a really good litigator with a great practice in prenuptial agreements; she always sorts them out really quickly. She is very pleasant to work with."
"Sital is an absolute star."
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