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Grant Stephens Family Law
1st Floor
3&4 Park Place
Cardiff
CF10 3DP
United Kingdom

Position

Managing Director

Career

Grant Stephens is a leading specialist family law solicitor with a wealth of experience and excels in complex cases. He has earned the desirable reputation of delivering outstanding, collaborative family law support for clients matched with respect and commendation from his peers across South Wales and the South-West of England. He is ranked as a Leading Individual for family law in Wales in the current Legal 500 Directory.

Over the last two decades has forged a strong and valuable niche in this type of family law work. Clients with challenging or high value matters are commonly referred directly to Grant which has allowed him, and fellow practice partner, to build a strong and thriving family law practice for South Wales and beyond.

Grant is exceptionally passionate about family law – and building a positive profile for legal advisors and mediators in the process. While he is admittedly involved in highly complex, financially valuable, and emotive legal matters, Grant is frequently praised by his clients for being able to blend legal confidence, professionalism and depth of ability with a positive, sympathetic and transparent manner with clients.

Grant has achieved a great number of successful outcomes, is renowned for his pre-eminent expertise and handles complex divorce and financial matters for high-profile clients. He has achieved has a wealth of experience across a range of matters such as nuptial agreements, cases with an international element, inherited wealth, protracted child arrangement disputes and complex business interests, to name but a few.

Grant is a skilled negotiator and is known for his commitment to find an early resolution in each and every case. He believes that the court process should be viewed as a last resort and, as an accredited Collaborative Law Solicitor, promotes Alternative Dispute Resolution wherever possible, including Collaborative Law. If the Court process is inevitable, he is an accomplished advocate with an enviable reputation and strives to secure the best outcome for his clients.

His experience in Collaborative Law has helped shape the culture of Grant Stephens Family Law and has also had a productive effect in terms of inspiring confidence in the wider legal sector. The majority of Grant’s clients are referral-based – including non-competing boutique / other law firms and he has generated a loyal following of family law solicitors who regularly turn to him for support, guidance, informal mentorship and business advice.

Memberships

Member of Resolution

Lawyer Rankings

Wales > Private client > Family

(Leading individuals)

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Combining an ‘innovative’ use of technology with deep knowledge of the underlying law, Cardiff-based boutique Grant Stephens Family Law continues to go from strength-to-strength, advising clients on an increasing number of the highest value matters progressing through the courts. ‘Fantastic’ name partner Grant Stephens has a ‘really warm approach with his clients’, including many high-net-worth-individuals on financial remedy cases often involving assets held abroad. Herself an accredited mediator, Lisa Evans also excels in handling high-value cases and provides ‘pragmatic and efficient’ advice with an eye to resolving matters through ADR, if possible. Matthew Wells was promoted to partner in November 2022 and provides ‘sensible straight forward advice’ across a range of matters including financial remedy proceedings as well as complex child arrangements.