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Mills & Reeve LLP Offices

Mills & Reeve LLP
No.1 Circle Square
3 Symphony Park
MANCHESTER
M1 7FS
England
Visit website 0344 880 2666

Nigel Shepherd

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0161 235 5426 [email protected]

Work Department

Family and matrimonial.

Position

Consultant and former national head of family law for Mills & Reeve; reputation as one of the country’s leading family practitioners; appears regularly in the print and broadcast media. He is a trained but now non-practising collaborative lawyer and practising family law financial arbitrator.

Career

Qualified 1981; Slater Heelis 1981-84; Chafes 1984-93; Lace Mawer 1993-99 (now Berrymans Lace Mawer) ; Addleshaw Booth & Co (now Addleshaw Goddard) 1999-2008; Mills & Reeve LLP 2008 to date. Contributor to ‘Family Law’ and other publications and joint general editor of 2nd edition of the ‘Resolution Family Law Handbook’.

Memberships

Law Society of England and Wales; Resolution (national chairman 1995-97 and 2016-2018); Manchester Law Society;

Education

Brentwood School; Manchester Polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan University) (1978 BA Hons Law with German).

Leisure

Sport, music (governor of Chethams School of Music, Manchester)

Lawyer Rankings

North West > Private client > Family

(Leading partners)

Nigel Shepherd –Mills & Reeve LLP

Mills & Reeve LLP in Manchester is well equipped to handle both complex financial cases, often involving corporate structures and offshore trusts, as well as private children disputes with international elements. The group also has unique expertise in alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration involving children law matters. The ‘outstanding‘ practice head Alison Bull leads the firm’s family non-court dispute resolution group and is a highly skilled arbitrator of children and financial issues, as well as being a cross-border family mediator. Nigel Shepherd is an expert financial arbitrator and dispute resolution consultant and Andrew Moore, who leads the firm’s family business team is ‘an exceptional advocate’. The group also includes unmarried families and cohabitation expert Sue Brookes and Rose-Marie Drury, who is ‘robust and determined with considerable expertise‘ in financial settlements and private children cases.

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