Susan Apthorp > Keystone Law > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Keystone Law Offices
48 CHANCERY LANE
LONDON
WC2A 1JF
England
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Susan Apthorp
Work Department
Family Law
Position
Susan is a highly regarded family law specialist representing clients in divorce proceedings where there are substantial assets and cross-border disputes. Further, she has particular expertise and interest in complex cases involving children, such as international relocation and provision for children with complex medical needs from married and unmarried families.
Susan regularly advises on complex financial remedy proceedings, Inheritance Act cases, pre-and post-nuptial arrangements and jurisdictional disputes. She also has keen interest in and experience in protecting vulnerable clients, particularly those who have experienced coercive control and other forms of domestic violence in their relationships and/or who need additional protection to ensure their safety and well-being during the course of proceedings.
When situations cannot be resolved amicably or in a commercial manner, Susan has extensive experience and a record of successfully litigating at the highest levels including the Court of Appeal.
Susan’s clients are generally wealthy individuals and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and their partners/spouses from a range of different professions and backgrounds, often with international financial interests and keen to avoid media exposure and/or reputational damage.
Career
Susan qualified as a solicitor in 1994. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2020, she worked at the following firms:
- Sears Tooth
- Davis Arnold Cooper
Lawyer Rankings
London > Private client > Family
The family department at Keystone Law ‘is hugely experienced and it has drawn well-known practitioners from magic circle firms and built an impressive team of brilliant and expert family specialists’. Among its leading lights are Susan Apthorp, Claire O’Flinn, and Carolyn Bottomley. The group often advises high-profile and celebrity clients, and through Richard Collins, it also offers niche expertise in cases involving addiction, bipolar depression, and behavioural difficulties. Notable new arrivals include Laura Brown, who joined the practice from Ketley Miller Joels Ltd in April 2023, and Grainne Fahy – ‘a superb family lawyer‘ – who joined the group from Clyde & Co in June 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Employment > Employees/unions
- Corporate and commercial > International business reorganisations
- Private client > Court of protection
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Public sector > Healthcare
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Real estate > Residential property
Firm Rankings
- Employment > Senior executives
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Gaming and betting
- Finance > Islamic finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Music
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Transport > Travel
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Transport > Aviation
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Private client > Family
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Transport > Shipping
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Employment > Employers
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Insurance > Insurance litigation: for policyholders
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant