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20 Bonhill Street
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EC2A 4DN
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Sital Fontenelle

Work Department
Family and divorce
Position
Sital is Head of Department for Kingsley Napley’s Family and Divorce team. She specialises in complex financial matters within relationship breakdown including international jurisdictional cases. She has extensive experience in difficult cases involving off-shore trusts, family businesses, tracing assets, third party interests and inherited wealth. Sital is known for her strategic advice in complex cases, and has great instincts in manoeuvring the case to achieve the right result for her clients.
Examples of her cases include: acting for the Wife in complex financial remedy proceedings where the assets totalled £38m plus and the matter proceeded to a 5 day final hearing; acting for the Wife of an American banker with worldwide assets and representing her at the Arbitration; acting for a lawyer in financial remedy proceedings involving complex trust structures and off-shore interests with assets of over £100m.
Sital won silver in the “Woman of the Year – Future Leaders (Partner)” category at the Citywealth Powerwomen Awards 2020.
Career
Qualified in September 2003
Memberships
Sital is an active member of the Resolution Cohabitation Committee. She presented at Resolution’s annual conference in 2019, 2017 and in 2011, and is a regular contributor to the committee’s publications.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Private client > Family
(Leading partners)The ‘high-powered, well-respected’ family team at Kingsley Napley LLP has a ‘first-class reputation’, and is ‘often at the cutting edge of new developments’. The team often undertakes international work, with particular experience relating to France and the US. Sital Fontenelle took over as head of the family team in March 2024 from Charlotte Bradley, who now spearheads the team’s mediation offering. Fontenelle offers extensive experience in both financial and children cases, including leave to remove. ‘Superstar’ Jane Keir
is the go-to in the team for wealth protection both pre- and post-divorce, while Connie Atkinson, ‘a shining light‘, is skilled in complex surrogacy cases. Atkinson, Lauren Evans and Stacey Nevin also practice as mediators; Evans regularly handles international issues and Nevin is particularly sought after for matters involving complex trust structures. Abby Buckland‘s practice focuses on high-net-worth financial and children cases. Rachel Freeman departed the team to Burgess Mee in January 2024.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- 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)
- Employment > Immigration
- Employment > Immigration: human rights
- Employment > Immigration: personal
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Employment > Senior executives
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Dispute resolution > Costs lawyers
- Private client > Court of protection
- Private client > Family: mediation
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Health and safety
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Real estate > Residential property
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Public sector > Education: individuals
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Employment > Employers
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Real estate > Property finance
- Risk advisory > ESG