Shona Alexander > Charles Russell Speechlys LLP > Guildford, England > Lawyer Profile

From its base in Guildford, Charles Russell Speechlys LLP is noted for its expertise in financial matters involving complex assets, trust structures, family businesses, and significant pensions. Team head Shona Alexander has a ‘huge intellect and is a real fighter when necessary’, specialising in financial cases with international elements. Co-head Karen Wilsher is a specialist in in complex child law cases, with an emphasis on those with international and public law elements, including the involvement of Local Authorities. The ‘impressive and intuitive‘ William Rollin is an expert in cases involving complicated psychological and psychiatric elements.

The ‘fantastic‘ mediation team at Charles Russell Speechlys LLP handles both financial and children-related mediations. ‘Exceptional mediator’ Sarah Anticoni is ‘multi-talented and gently forthright with clients‘, with experience in advising on the dissolution of religious as well as civil marriages, including those with international elements. In Guildford, Shona Alexander specialises in high-net-worth financial cases, with expertise regarding the unmarried family, cohabitation, and Schedule 1 cases. Department head William Longrigg is a trained family arbitrator, adding to the team’s comprehensive non-court dispute resolution offering, which includes a number of team members trained in the collaborative process.