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Irpreet Kohli

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Work Department

Family Wealth

Position

Director

Irpreet is a highly regarded specialist family lawyer in the family wealth team in Freeths’ London office. Irpreet joined the team to head and grow the London family law offering, bringing with her 15 years’ experience of working at a regional UK firm and an international focussed firm to provide an all-round and broad family law service to Freeths’ clients.

Irpreet’s caseload is broad and varied including negotiating financial settlements in divorces from modest asset cases to HNW divorces involving worldwide assets in excess of £20m; advising on arrangements for children including internal and overseas relocation; assisting with wealth preservation through prenuptial and postnuptial settlements including arranging international mirror agreements where required; advising on the impact of religious and overseas marriage and divorces, such as nikahs and talaqs on UK proceedings.

Recent cases of note include

• Advising on a divorcing couple involving family wealth including a property portfolio comprising of 20 residential and commercial units. The proceedings involved an extended family intervention where family members claimed a beneficial interest in the rental units. Total matrimonial assets were in the region of £20m and were resolved following complicated and acrimonious multi party proceedings involving the UK as well as overseas accounts and property assets.
• A number of intervention matters, including cases where she has defended against the intervention of family members into divorce proceedings in which she represents either H or W and also an attempt to join a client’s company into divorce proceedings as an intervener.
• Advising on Part III MFPA 1984 proceedings (financial provision after an overseas divorce) where parties are already divorced abroad and are seeking to make further claims against UK assets.

Clients describe Irpreet as “the perfect solicitor to have on your team” saying that she “adopts a common sense approach to all matters and approaches negotiations pragmatically, sensitively and efficiently.” Ideal for this area of law, Irpreet is “approachable and honest in her advice but similarly takes no nonsense if the situation requires it. She will tell it like it is and then come up with a strategy to best meet your objectives.”

Career

Trained at Thomson Snell & Passmore 2002-2004. Qualified 2004. Vizards Wyeth 2004-2008. Blake Morgan (London) 2008-2014. Child &Child 2014-2019 (Partner from 2018). Freeths LLP as Director from 2019 to date

Languages

Punjabi

Memberships

Resolution

Education

The College of Law, Birmingham (LPC) – 2002

University of Birmingham – Law Degree (LLB) – 1998-2001

Townley Grammar School, Kent – A levels – 1998 – and GCSEs – 1996