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100 OLD HALL STREET
LIVERPOOL
L3 9QJ
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Fiona Davidson

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0151 243 9562 fiona.davidson@weightmans.com View profile

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Fiona heads the Liverpool family law team and manages the renowned national family team at Weightmans across our offices. She is recognised by Legal 500 2019 as a Leading Individual in family law in the North West.

Fiona specialises in financial and children issues arising out of relationship breakdown with particular expertise in complex divorces involving company, partnership and trust issues.

She has a significant practice in pre, post marital and cohabitation agreements, as well as a wealth of experience in dealing with children cases, particularly involving international relocation.

Fiona is known for her strategic and focused advice in delivering results for clients. Her understanding of the needs of clients enables her to offer a first-rate and bespoke service to her clients resulting in regular referrals from fellow professionals including barristers and other members of the legal profession.

Fiona is keen to offer alternatives to litigation with a child centred and amicable approach to separation. She is a trained collaborative lawyer, she chaired the Merseyside collaborative law group for over six years. She is an active member of Resolution and sits on the Merseyside Regional Committee for Resolution. She also sits on the Liverpool Law Society Family Committee helping to shape local family law issues.

Fiona is recognised as a leader in her field in both independent legal directories, Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners, being described as ‘technically excellent; really approachable and able to build a real rapport with clients, who trust her implicitly’.

Fiona is a Resolution accredited specialist specialising in complex financial and property matters specifically with high income households with substantial assets as well as medium to low income households. The only solicitor in Liverpool having the qualification in high income households and substantial assets.

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North West > Private client > Family

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Fiona Davidson – Weightmans LLP

The 2022 merger with RadcliffesLeBrasseur has strengthened Weightmans LLP‘s private client offering, making it a ‘go-to’ firm in the North West. Advising on the full range of family matters with close collaboration with the tax, trusts and probate, and international private wealth team, the group show notable expertise in financial remedy, surrogacy law, and digital and crypto currency cases. The department is spearheaded by the ‘outstanding’ Emma Collins, whose broad practice features areas of particular strength such as nuptial agreements and pension structures. Beyond her work as deputy district judge, Carole Atkinson is highly revered in the market for her excellence in on-shore and off-shore trust mandates, while Fiona Turner is ’emotionally intelligent’ during complex divorce and matrimonial finance cases, especially when they include business and cross-border assets. Fiona Davidson is principally noted for her acumen in children law, a growing area of the firm’s offering that has resulted in activity in highly sensitive child relocation cases. Rachel Lim continues to advise on a broad range of practice matters.

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