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Levison Meltzer Pigott Offices
45 LUDGATE HILL
LONDON
EC4M 7JU
England
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Simon Pigott
Position
Founding partner specialising in all aspects of divorce and family law, including complex financial issues and children. Accredited and practising family mediator, a qualified and practising collaborative lawyer and has a special interest in resolving disputes concerning children. Contributor ‘Rayden and Jackson on Divorce and Family Matters’, 17th ed. Has lectured for the College of Law and was one of the first family law mediators trained by the Family Mediators Association. Chair of the Association 1995 and 1997, and vice-chair of the United Kingdom College of Family Mediators 1996 and 1998. Simon was shortlisted for the prestigious Family Law Awards 2014 in ‘Family Law ADR Practitioner of the Year’ category. In 2015 he was nominated as one of the best family lawyers in London for the Family Law Index, published by Spear’s, a magazine for high-net-worth individuals and their advisors.
Career
Articled Wright Webb Syrett, qualified 1982; founding partner Levison Meltzer Pigott 1998 to date.
Memberships
Resolution; American Bar Association (Family Section); Family Mediators Association; fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers; Central London Collaborative Forum.
Education
Mill Hill School; University of Southampton (1977 BSc Hons).
Lawyer Rankings
London > Private client > Family
(Hall of Fame)Levison Meltzer Pigott is a boutique law firm with an experienced team that ‘brings the experience from the top names in the industry coupled with the dynamism of the younger partners’. Simon Pigott
heads the offering that advises on all areas of family law, including divorce and separation, financial remedies, Schedule 1 cases, co-habitation matters, and paternity disputes. The agile department also handles private law children work. The ‘perfect boutique practice specialises in high-net-worth cases and brings to these cases the professionalism of a magic circle firm’, and it regularly acts in cases where there are hidden assets and complex trust structures. The ‘legendary’ Jeremy Levison and Alison Hayes are both recommended, and Kate Stovold and Benjamin Stowe also garner considerable praise.
London > Private client > Family: mediation
(Leading individuals)Levison Meltzer Pigott has a busy mediation practice. Simon Pigott is a family mediator who deals with all issues mediation (finances and child arrangements) and regularly works on high-net-worth cases with international elements. In addition, he is regularly asked to mediate on private children law matters, including leave to remove, relocation and other complicated children matters. Kate Stovold recently qualified as a mediator.