financial settlements

• Obtaining a very significant settlement for the wife of a businessman who sought to protect his assets through complicated business and trust structures.
• Acting for the wife following a short childless marriage and obtaining a financial settlement to enable her to buy her own property outright.
• Obtaining freezing orders over net proceeds of sale and other assets on behalf of a husband who feared they would be divested by the wife.

high conflict divorces

• Negotiated an outcome for a client locked in a high conflict divorce.
• Acting for a client with border line personality disorder and taking them through the extreme highs and lows of litigation through to a final trial.
• Acting for the wife who was frightened to leave her clinically diagnosed narcissist husband.
• Strategically guided a client through litigation against a narcissist including ensuring a focused, factual and firm approach with limited correspondence.

pres/post nuptial agreements

• Acted in a case in which the parties had entered a prenuptial agreement but during the course of the short marriage, the business assets had increased in value by ten fold. Negotiating a fair settlement which departed from the terms of the prenuptial agreement.
• Preparing a post nuptial agreement for a Swedish couple moving into the UK to reflect the terms of their Swedish prenuptial agreement.
• Negotiating a prenuptial agreement for a client who was potentially due to receive significant distributions from a trust but who had not yet received anything.
• Negotiating a post nuptial agreement which protected a client’s business assets while reaching an agreement on appropriate levels of sharing reflecting the duration of the marriage.
• Renegotiating an agreement to take into account a change in circumstances resulting in a much fairer outcome.

other

• Protecting and preserving the family home when the other party was intent on using it to discharge his own liabilities.
• Enforcing an order for sale including multiple successful applications for the judge to sign documents which the other party refused to do.
• Acted in a case relating to the beneficial ownership of assets. [2018] EWHC 1855 (Fam).
• Acted for the litigation funder in Ls v PS [2021] ESHC 3508 (fam), Simon v Simon [2022] EWFC 35, Lauren Simon and Paul Simon and Integro [2022] EWFC 29 and in the Court of Appeal, Paul Simon and Lauren Simon and Integro Funding Ltd [2023] EWCA Civ 1048
• Acted for the wife in relation to applications for freezing injunctions in DH v RH (No 2) (Variation of Interim Arrangements) [2023] EWFC 210 (28 November 2023)

cases involving children

• Acted in a case concerning the summary return of children to America and the court’s jurisdiction to consider the best interests of children who are wards of court. [2017] EWHC 3709 (Fam) 2017 WL 08423958.
• Acted in a Schedule 1 case which dealt with provision for a children from Swedish trust assets and was subsequently enforced (unsuccessfully) using the European Maintenance Regulation. [2015] EWHC 2616 (Fam).

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