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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 ‘one of the best and leading firms in the country for family law work‘. The family team is headed up by Kate Clark, ‘a complete star’ whose practice focuses on complex financial remedy cases, often international in nature. Claire Yorke heads up the team’s non-court dispute resolution group; she is a mediator and ‘one of the very best and brightest partners working in family law’. The ‘wickedly intelligent and strategically minded‘ Barbara Reeves is noted for her work with the department’s addiction specialist team, which is also an area of strength for Clare Radcliffe. Sandra Davis
, who is ‘frankly leagues ahead of her competitors‘, specialises in ultra-high-net-worth cases with media elements. Antonia Felix leads the team’s surrogacy and modern families group, while James Rees is a go-to for cases with a Middle East element.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Employment > Employers
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Gaming and betting
- Employment > Immigration
- Employment > Immigration: personal
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- 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
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Private client > Family
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Employment > Immigration: human rights
- 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
- Industry focus > TMT
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Artificial intelligence
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Public sector > Education: individuals
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Real estate > Planning
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Dispute resolution > Group litigation: Claimant
- Employment > Health and safety
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Real estate > Property finance
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Private client > Agriculture and estates