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Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP Offices

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP
125 WOOD STREET
LONDON
EC2V 7AW
England
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Anna Worwood

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020 7872 8582 [email protected]

Work Department

Family.

Position

Anna is the head of the family law department, and specialises in matrimonial, financial and children cases. She has extensive experience in cases of a complex nature (including those with international aspects) and a particular interest in international relocation cases. She represented the father in Re C [2003] 1 FLR 1066, the mother in Re D [2006] Fam Law 1006 and the father in Re C (International Relocation) [2015] EWCA 1305. Anna was included in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 2016. She is a trained collaborative lawyer.

Career

Trained Hegarty & Co, Peterborough; qualified 1998; assistant solicitor Wortley Redmayne & Kershaw, Chelmsford; assistant solicitor Manches 2001; partner 2005. Has written and been quoted in various articles on financial and children issues, and written academic papers for, and presented at AIJA, IAFL and Resolution conferences on various aspects of family law. She is the only solicitor contributor to the book ‘Relocation: A Practical Guide’, 2nd edition published by Family Law in 2016. She is also the General Editor of the Global Guide to International Relocation of Children, published by Thomson Reuters in 2016. Anna sits on Resolution’s International Committee and she chairs the IAFL’s International Relocation Committee.

Languages

Working knowledge French, German.

Memberships

Resolution; International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL); Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats (AIJA); REUNITE; Association of Lawyers for Children.

Education

The King’s School, Peterborough; Warwick University (1995 LLB Second Class); London Guildhall University (Post Graduate Diploma Legal Practice Commendation).

Lawyer Rankings

London > Private client > Family

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Anna Worwood – Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP‘s family team is ‘amongst the strongest in London‘, led ‘extremely well‘ by Anna Worwood, ‘an international relocation expert’, and arbitrator and head of strategy for the team James Stewart, who is ‘a first choice for cases involving prenuptial agreements or cross-border matters‘. A number of team members have specialist experience of international matters, including Anglo-US experienced Elizabeth Carson and Rebecca Carlyon, whose client base includes high-profile figures in entertainment, politics and finance. Jane Craig is particularly engaged in the law around cohabitees, and Linzi Bull is specialised in LGBTQ+ family issues including international surrogacy, and innovative use of pre-conception agreements. For complex financial matters, including those involving trust structures, family offices and offshore assets, Amanda Andrews is a go-to, while international child abduction work is regularly handled by Tammy Knox. In October 2024, the team was joined by Tom Amlot, Lucy Brown, and Kate Williams, all previously at AFP Bloom.

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