Maisie Huynh > Irwin Mitchell > Sheffield, England > Lawyer Profile
Irwin Mitchell Offices
RIVERSIDE EAST
2 MILLSANDS
SHEFFIELD
S3 8DT
England
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Maisie Huynh
Work Department
Family
Position
Maisie is a tenacious litigator. She has great commercial acumen and an ability to understand clients and their businesses. Maisie frequently represents high net worth clients on complex financial matters and has been commended by senior junior Counsels and KCs her impressive handling of cases and strategic decisions.
Maisie is part of our Teams of Excellence for Court of Protection / personal injury settlement work. Maisie handles cases where clients lack capacity and/or have suffered a significant injury. Maisie also advises our Serious Injury teams on claims for legal costs relating to a divorce and financial proceedings in schedules of loss; this includes providing statements to the Court in support of those heads of loss.
Maisie confidently undertakes her own advocacy, often against experienced Partners and Counsel.
As well as her own complex caseload, Maisie works closely with Ros Bever and other Partners across our National Team, specialising in UHNW and HNW matters with a particular specialism in Private Equity assets and complex trusts structures
Maisie’s recent notable cases include:
• Having assisted a Partner in acting for a client worth £16m in financial remedy proceedings, Maisie was instructed by the client to advise in relation to a pre-nuptial agreement.
• Representing a local businessman whose company is due to complete on a £40m deal in his divorce. The settlement involves a company restructure and complex tax issues.
• Securing s37 Freezing Orders to preserve over £5.8m of assets, third party disclosure orders, and a set aside of a property transfer, in ongoing protracted proceedings.
• Advising on a pre-nuptial agreement in circumstances where the client is due to receive an inheritance in excess of £10m and is the beneficiary of family trusts.
• Representing a client in a divorce where the sole asset is her future damages from a wrongful birth claim valued at > £5m.
Career
Qualified in September 2014; joined Irwin Mitchell in 2015.
Lawyer Rankings
Yorkshire and the Humber > Private client > Family: elsewhere in Yorkshire
(Rising stars)Helen Revill leads the family team at Irwin Mitchell across both Sheffield and Leeds. The team advises on high-value financial remedy work alongside private client matters involving children. In addition, it has notable expertise regarding family work for LGBT+ clients, and offers a pro bono legal clinic for the Jewish community. Senior associate Maisie Huynh is recommended for her ‘excellent strategic insight’.
Lawyer Rankings
- Family: elsewhere in Yorkshire Yorkshire and the Humber > Private client
- Rising stars Yorkshire and the Humber > Private client > Family: elsewhere in Yorkshire
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Family: elsewhere in Yorkshire
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Real estate > Commercial property: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
- Public sector > Education
- Private client > Family: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
- Real estate > Commercial property: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Employment > Employment: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Employment > Employment: Sheffield and South Yorkshire
- Crime, fraud and licensing > General crime and fraud
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property