Simon Magner Mawdsley > Aaron & Partners LLP > Chester, England > Lawyer Profile
Aaron & Partners LLP Offices
5-7 GROSVENOR COURT
FOREGATE STREET
CHESTER
CH1 1HG
England
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Simon Magner Mawdsley
Work Department
Family Law
Position
Partner
Career
Described by clients as “an excellent listener, open and engaging”, “exceptional”, “reassuring” and “insightful”, Simon acts for a range of clients in all aspects of relationship breakdowns including divorce, resolution of financial matters, civil partnerships, cohabitation disputes, pre- and post-marital agreements, injunctions, and children matters.
Simon understands that the breakdown of a relationship is a difficult and stressful period, and offers support and advice to ensure the best possible outcome for his clients. He works with each client to manage the case at the right pace for them.
He is an experienced family law Solicitor receiving instructions in respect of complex and high-net worth matters, including cases involving businesses, farming partnerships, complex family structures, companies, and pensions. He regularly leverages relationships with leading barristers for his clients’ benefit.
Simon has extensive knowledge of protecting his clients’ non-matrimonial assets via pre and post-nuptial agreements.
He has experience of cohabitation cases under ToLATA 1996. Simon has drafted cohabitation/separation agreements for non-married couples.
Simon acts for clients in respect of applications to deal with arrangements for children and Schedule 1 applications for financial support for children.
Simon has successfully advised clients on matters with inter-jurisdictional complications.
He is a member of Resolution, an organisation founded in 1982 by a group of family lawyers who believed that a non-confrontational approach to family law issues would produce better outcomes for separating families and their children.
Education
Simon was educated on the Isle of Man before attending the University of Liverpool to study history. Simon completed the graduate diploma in law at BPP Manchester and qualified as a solicitor in 2010.
Lawyer Rankings
North West > Private client > Family
(Next Generation Partners)Aaron & Partners LLP is praised for its willingness to ‘avoid unnecessary conflict and court proceedings’ through its legal counsel, possessing seasoned mediators alongside established litigation experience. Group head Simon Mawdsley is intimately familiar with divorce and financial remedy negotiations, and competently handles business and pension asset disputes. Co-head Richard Barge is a go-to for nuptial and cohabitation agreements and has been a main driver behind the practice’s growing activity in this area. Lorraine Saunders ‘deals with complex divorce cases’ that routinely involve cross-border possessions and high-value trust funds, while Victoria Syvret bolsters the firm’s alternative dispute offering through her mediation experience.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in the North West
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in the North West
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Family
- Employment > Employment
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Energy, project finance and PFI
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Transport
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Real estate > Construction