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Sandra Davis
Work Department
Mishcon Private
Position
Sandra is a Partner of the Firm’s Family department. She has over 40 years’ experience of family law practice with Mishcon de Reya.
She specialises in complex high net worth and ultra high net worth cases, often with an international element and involving complex tax and trust issues, substantial business assets and partnerships, disputes concerning children – particularly leave to remove and abduction – and pre- and post-nuptial settlements.
Her clients include celebrities, entrepreneurs and financiers. Sandra’s career highlights have included representation of the Princess of Wales, Jerry Hall, Thierry Henry and Tamara Mellon as well as involvement in leading cases on third-party financing of financial settlements and jurisdiction.
She is a member of Resolution, the International Bar Association and a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
Chambers & Partners call her a “phenomenal” lawyer and “the go-to solicitor for high net worth cases”. She is described in the Legal 500 as “a giant in the family law world”.
Sandra won the Gold Award in the Woman of the Year: Leadership (Professional Services) category at the Citywealth Awards and is included in the Citywealth Leaders List 2020. She is also listed as a Family Law expert in the London Super Lawyers directory, which has named her one of the Top 100 Lawyers and one of the Top 50 women. Sandra is also recognised in The Legal 500’s Hall of Fame.
Sandra is a frequent broadcaster and chairperson, organiser and speaker at conferences on family law issues.
Career
Partner, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Qualified, Victor Mishcon & Co (became Mishcon de Reya in 1988)
Articled Victor Mishcon & Co
Languages
French, German.
Memberships
Sandra is a member of Resolution, the International Bar Association and a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
Education
Nottingham Law School, LPC & GDL
University of Southampton, BA History
Lawyer Rankings
London > Private client > Family
(Hall of Fame)Mishcon de Reya LLP is a ‘hotbed of talent‘ that is led by Barbara Reeves who has been described as ‘one of the wisest and shrewdest senior family law solicitors in London’. Reeves has significant experience in cases with an element of non-disclosure and enforcement issues. Praised as a ‘stellar offering that delivers a top-drawer service’ it is routinely instructed by high-profile and very wealthy clients and has successfully litigated complex and high-value cases at all levels of tribunal including some precedent setting cases in the Supreme Court and Privy Council. Sandra Davis
(‘the unsurpassed queen bee of family law’) is a keen advocate for the voices of children and young people throughout the divorce and separation process. Kate Clark leads the firm’s group specialising in children cases involving parental alienation. Antonia Felix covers all aspects of family law (including surrogacy and adoption). Claire Yorke is another important member of the team that is ‘quite simply the very best in London from top to bottom’.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Employment > Employers
- Private client > Family
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Gaming and betting
- Transport > Travel
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Employment > Health and safety
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Residential property
- Employment > Senior executives
Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Public sector > Education: individuals
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Insurance > Insurance litigation: for policyholders
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Private prosecutions
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Trade mark attorneys
- Real estate > Planning
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Industry focus > TMT
- Public sector > Civil liberties and human rights
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: lower mid-market deals, £50m-£500m
- Real estate > Property finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment (including media finance)
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit