Joanna Grandfield > Mills & Reeve LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Mills & Reeve LLP Offices
24 KING WILLIAM STREET
LONDON
EC4R 9AT
England
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Joanna Grandfield
Work Department
Family and children
Position
Partner and specialist financial and children lawyer who heads up Mills & Reeve’s London family team, Joanna is a trained barrister who is also a mediator and collaborative lawyer.
Joanna’s work involves advising clients both within and outside of the jurisdiction who have complex financial and children issues arising from family breakdown, often involving trusts, business assets and pensions. She works with clients on wealth protection, drafting and advising on pre and post marital agreements.
From a client: “A tremendous asset….Calm, assured, diligent and clearly very knowledgeable, Joanna performed superbly throughout proceedings”
From Counsel: “Brilliant and has a steely determination to do the best for her clients”
From Counsel: “Joanna is clever and charming. Her clients love he. She has a real warmth and sense of humour that disguises her determination to win. She commands a dedicated team and leads by example – fearless hard work
Career
Partner, Barrister (called to the Bar in 2000), mediator and collaborative lawyer. Member of Family Law Bar Association and Resolution
Languages
Conversational French
Memberships
Bar Council, Resolution
Education
Inns of Court School of Law (BVC), City University (CPE) and Keble College, Oxford (Philosophy, Politics & Economics MA)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Private client > Family
(Leading individuals)Mills & Reeve LLP ‘has a collection of some of the country’s finest family lawyers. Its reputation countrywide is superb and justifiably so’. Joanna Grandfield leads the London family team while Zoë Fleetwood heads the national children team. The practice receives plaudits for its experience across the full range of family issues from advising on cases where there are complex business and trusts structures with an international component to advising on international wealth protection and highly conflicted children proceedings. The nimble team is also adept at handling high-profile individuals as well as advising on property disputes between unmarried couples. Suzanne Kingston
is highly regarded. Another key member of the London offering is principal associate Tim Whitney who undertakes all kinds of family work and is an FMC accredited all issues mediator.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Education: institutions
- Public sector > Education: individuals
- Public sector > Healthcare
- Employment > Senior executives
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Family
- Private client > Family: mediation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Private client > Court of protection
- Public sector > Education: schools
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Finance > Asset based lending
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Employment > Immigration
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market