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‘s family law department is home to ‘some excellent names that really stand out’ and it is praised for its ‘truly national reputation for excellence in all areas of family law’. The group has a wealth of experience in the full spectrum of family law issues for its predominantly wealthy client base. The ‘dynamic’ Joanna Grandfield is frequently instructed to advise individuals, family offices, and trustees on wealth protection through pre and post-nuptial agreements, while Zoe Fleetwood, who has a ‘great deal of integrity’, sit at the helm of the firm’s national children team. Consultant Suzanne Kingston is another key figure, and Colin Rogerson joined the group from Clyde & Co in September 2022, bolstering the practice’s surrogacy and assisted reproduction offering. Tim Whitney was recently promoted to the partnership.
London > Private client > Family: mediation
(Leading individuals)‘Mills & Reeve LLP has the only truly national family law team. The London family mediation team is first rate. They are talented and solution focused; able to handle the most complex mediations.’ Alison Bull heads the firm’s family non-court dispute resolution practice. Bull is an accredited family and civil mediator, a hybrid mediator and a professional practice consultant. Suzanne Kingston is hugely respected and also has expertise in family arbitrations. Joanna Grandfield is another highly-regarded member of the ‘very impressive team‘. Tim Whitney was recently promoted to the partnership.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals London > Private client > Family: mediation
- Leading individuals London > Private client > Family
- Family London > Private client
- Family: mediation London > Private client
Top Tier Firm Rankings
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
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration