Katherine Rayden > Rayden Solicitors > St Albans, England > Lawyer Profile
Rayden Solicitors Offices
THE LIMES
32-34 UPPER MARLBOROUGH ROAD
ST ALBANS
AL1 3UU
England
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Katherine Rayden
Work Department
Family.
Position
Katherine Rayden set up Rayden Solicitors and built it to become the award-winning firm it is today. Her extensive experience as a family lawyer, business owner and award winning entrepreneur mark her out as a family law expert who provides sensible, commercial advice on a range of family law issues.
Katherine has over 20 years’ experience as a specialist family law solicitor. She specialises in the financial disputes that can follow the breakdown of any relationship. Katherine has practical knowledge and experience of working with different business structures and inter-company loans and understands the impact that these can have on financial negotiations or settlement. She is also experienced in cases with complex international or corporate structures, pre-nuptial agreements, expatriate divorces as well as those that require an in-depth analysis of complex income structures and pensions.
Katherine also handles almost all aspects of private law children matters including relocation of children, applications for contact with children, fact-finding hearings and surrogacy. Katherine often acts for same-sex parents.
Career
Trained Breeze and Wyles, Hertfordshire and Sears Tooth, Mayfair; qualified 1995; associate 1996; assistant solicitor Farrer & Co 1998-2003, associate 2003-05; founded Rayden solicitors 2005.
Memberships
Resolution; Hertfordshire Chamber of Commerce; St Albans District Chamber of Commerce; Federation of Small Businesses.
Education
St Albans High School for Girls; Lancaster University (1991 LLB Hons); Guildford College of Law (1993 LSF).
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Private client > Family: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
(Hall of Fame)Rayden Solicitors houses a ‘fantastic team of superb lawyers‘, which assists clients with a variety of issues, including shared care order applications, shared care arrangements, and the division of matrimonial assets. Rated by clients as ‘one of the best solicitors around‘, Katherine Rayden
heads up the practice from St Albans and primarily acts for high-net-worth individuals on the settlement of financial disputes and relationship breakdowns, often drafting pre and post-nuptial agreements. Emily Watson works out of the Berkhamsted office, and is particularly adept handling cases concerning permanent removal and international trust structures. In Beaconsfield, the ‘fantastic‘ Julian Bremner frequently dispenses advice on financial issues, particularly with a cross-border aspect; while in Bishop’s Stortford, Rosalind Fitzgerald was promoted to partner in October 2022 and has broad expertise spanning surrogacy and fertility cases. In Beaconsfield, Rupinder Rai regularly acts in child arrangement proceedings, including Schedule 1 issues.
Lawyer Rankings
- Family: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx South East > Private client
- Hall of Fame South East > Private client > Family: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx