Trudi Featherstone > Goodman Ray > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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Francis Barber House
9 Gough Square
London
EC4A 3DG
England
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Trudi Featherstone
Work Department
Head of divorce and matrimonial finance.
Position
Trudi leads the Divorce and Matrimonial Finance Team and has been a partner at Goodman Ray since May 2000 as head of the Matrimonial Team. She is a Resolution trained Family Mediator who can mediate on all issues (children and financial matters) and a collaboratively trained lawyer.
Specialising in the financial aspects of divorce and separation, Trudi regularly acts for high net worth individuals and provides advice in financially complex cases involving complex private company structures, private equity funds, EBT’s, pensions. Many cases have an international element, involving overseas trusts and corporate vehicles which have potentially significant tax implications. She is recognised for her highly organised and meticulous approach to this complex work. She has a particular expertise in dealing with financial claims for unmarried parents and their children and regularly acts for mothers and fathers in Schedule 1 claims and Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustee Act applications for cohabitees. She is viewed as an effective and formidable litigator and praised for providing excellent and well thought out advice.
Trudi also advises clients on Private Children Matters – Child arrangement orders and increasingly leave to remove applications. This complements the finance work and provides clients with complete advice on their family situation in a holistic way.
She is a Resolution Accredited Specialist in Advanced and Complex Financial disputes and Private Children Law work. Trudi is a trained Collaborative Lawyer and accredited Mediator able to conduct MIAMS and a member of the Family Mediation Council.
Trudi is included in City wealth’s Leaders list as a prominent figure in family and matrimonial in its Honours list.
Career
Trained Crane & Staples; qualified 1995; assistant solicitor Crane & Staples 1995-2000; senior solicitor Goodman Ray 2000-02; partner April 2002; Resolution accredited specialist (advanced financial provision II and children law – private); collaborative lawyer; Resolution mediator.
Memberships
Resolution accredited specialist;
Family Mediation Council.
Education
Davenant Foundation School; De Montfort University (1992 BA Hons); Law Society Final examinations (1993).
Leisure
Tennis, yoga, contemporary literature, cinema and theatre.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Private client > Family
(Leading individuals)Goodman Ray boasts an ‘outstanding’ family law team with lawyers that ‘are well respected and incredibly knowledgeable’. It has a solid reputation for its work in financial matters, private children mandates, and international issues that span adoption and fertility. It also garners praise for its extensive experience in modern family structures, public law matters, and domestic abuse cases. Peggy Ray specialises in complex cases concerning children, while Trudi Featherstone leads the divorce and matrimonial finance team. Jemma Dally is a partner in the adoption, surrogacy, and international child care department, and Tom Brownrigg is another key contact in the department. Kevin Skinner has substantial expertise in international custody disputes, child abduction cases, matrimonial proceedings, and care proceedings. Other names to note include Catriona Allan, Emma Sherrington, and Janet Broadley.
London > Private client > Family: mediation
Goodman Ray has ‘strength and depth in mediators’. Trudi Featherstone and Thomas Brownrigg are praised for providing a ‘first-class mediation service’. Featherstone is a Resolution trained family mediator who can mediate on all issues (children and financial matters) and a collaboratively trained lawyer. She specialises in the financial aspects of divorce and separation. In addition, she is skilled at advising on private law children matters. Brownrigg has been accredited by the Family Mediation Council to undertake ‘All Issues’ Mediation, and is also a child-inclusive mediator. He conducts mediation for a variety of individuals on both children and financial issues.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals London > Private client > Family
- Family London > Private client
- Family: mediation London > Private client