Claire Gordon > Farrer & Co > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Farrer & Co Offices
66 LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS
LONDON
WC2A 3LH
England
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Claire Gordon
Work Department
Family.
Position
Claire enjoys a diverse client base and an extensive caseload involving all aspects of family law for high net worth individuals, covering divorce, financial settlements, private law children matters, enforcement, civil partnership matters and unmarried couples. She also has considerable experience of drafting and advising upon pre and post-nuptial agreements. Her cases regularly include very complex financial, business and international matters, often involving offshore assets and trusts. Claire is a collaborative lawyer and a mediator and regards both practices as valuable alternative means of settling disputes.
Career
Claire joined Farrer & Co as a trainee in 1998; qualified as a solicitor in 2000 and was made a partner in 2007.
Memberships
International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (IAML); Resolution (the former Solicitors’ Family Law Association); Law Society; collaborative lawyer and founding member of Citipod Collaborative Family Law Group.
Education
Worcester College, Oxford (MA); College of Law, Guildford.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Private client > Family
(Leading partners)Retaining an ‘an old world feel’ while approaching cases in ‘an entirely modern way’, Farrer & Co regularly handles international matters for a range of high and ultra-high-net-worth clients. Department head William Massey
is noted for his expertise regarding complex financial situations including trusts, tax issues, and multiple jurisdictions. Claire Gordon has particular experience in cases across Hong Kong, New York and Switzerland; international matters are also an area of expertise for Edward Floyd. Combining ‘fantastic strategic vision and a real mastery of the law‘, Caroline Holley is sought after by clients in the entertainment industry. The team’s financial remedy expertise is combined with strength in children matters: Sarah Hutchinson regularly works at this intersection, including in Hague Convention proceedings, along with Amy Radnor and Flora Harragin. Frederick Tatham, ‘a ferociously good lawyer who will go very far’, has notable experience in Hong Kong, while John Davies ‘is technical with a strong international focus’. Alexander Woolley is recommended as ‘diligent, technical and thoughtful‘.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Public sector > Education: schools
- Private client > Family
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Theatre, publishing and other media
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Residential property
- Employment > Senior executives
Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Education: institutions
- Employment > Employers
- Employment > Immigration: personal
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Investment fund formation and management > Retail funds
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Immigration
- Employment > Immigration: human rights
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Real estate > Property finance
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration