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Howard Kennedy LLP Offices
NO.1 LONDON BRIDGE
LONDON
SE1 9BG
England
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Lois Langton
Work Department
Family.
Position
Lois Langton is a family law specialist assisting clients with all aspects of family work. She is Head of Family Law at Howard Kennedy.
Acting for a number of high-profile and high-net-worth individuals, Lois has a particular expertise in dealing with complex financial remedy work involving multi-million pound matrimonial settlements.
Her work regularly involves tax, trust, off-shore, and corporate structures, with high-end divorce and financial remedy cases and pre- and post-nuptial agreements being the work Lois most frequently undertakes. She also advises on cohabitation, separation, and children matters (including adoption and surrogacy).
Lois jointly heads the firm’s Sport sector team and acts for and advises a number of individuals associated with the sports industry. In addition, Lois is part of the Private Wealth sector team. There is a frequent overlap between her roles across the Family, Sport, and Private Wealth teams.
Lois is a member of Resolution, Women In Football, the China Britain Business Council, and the 48 Group.
Career
Trained Finers Stephens Innocent; qualified: 2001; partner HowardKennedyFsi 2012.
Memberships
Resolution, Women In Football, the China Britain Business Council, and the 48 Group.
Education
University College London (LLB 2(1)).
Leisure
Season ticket holder (home and away) at Arsenal; chair of the Arsenal Independent Supporters’ Association; other interests include ballet.
Lawyer Rankings
London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
Lois Langton draws on her experience of heading the family law team to lead Howard Kennedy LLP
‘s sports group on matters concerning high-net-worth-individuals and high-profile athletes. Criminal, business and regulatory specialist Kyle Phillips is a key contact for client defences following regulatory breaches, namely in the eSports space. Joel Leigh – an expert in complex commercial and professional negligence claims – also deals with contentious issues in the eSports, horse racing and motorsports arenas. Employment practitioner Sam Murray-Hinde provides key support to the team.
London > Private client > Family
Howard Kennedy LLP has ‘an A-list client-base that is going from strength to strength.’ Practice head Lois Langton is ‘one of the most dynamic and effective family lawyers in London today, with a celebrity client list’. Langton has particular expertise in complex financial remedy work, and the ‘bright and engaging‘ Katherine Res Pritchard joined the practice from Vardags at the beginning of 2023; she is a ‘top addition’ to the team and advises on all aspects of domestic and international children law cases.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Public sector > Civil liberties and human rights
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Theatre, publishing and other media
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Private prosecutions
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general
- Private client > Family
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Real estate > Residential property
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- Real estate > Planning
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Employment > Employers
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Real estate > Property finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency