Already a preeminent name in the divorce and financial remedy sphere,
Hall Brown Family Law has strengthened its capabilities over the past 12 months through a concentrated focus on its expanding children’s practice, with an evident uptick in Schedule 1 Children Act and Hague Convention cases. Alongside this work, the team continual to act on complex family matters, including high-net worth divorce proceedings involving trusts, business structures and multi-jurisdictional assets, as well as prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.
James Brown and
Sam Hall ‘are leading names’ in the market, helming the group’s most complicated cases and between them handling a regional portfolio of high-profile sport and media clients.
Andrew Newbury‘s practice concentrates on families and estates with agricultural and business aspects, and he is also adept at dealing with cross border assets.
Beth Wilkins continues to advise on both financial remedy and Children Act cases.
Fielding ‘
a wealth of experienced advocates’,
Hall Brown Family Law‘s team is led by
Alison Fernandes, who is based in Sheffield, and includes consultant and key practitioner
Martin Loxley. Fernandes specialises in complex financial remedy cases involving pre-marital assets and the team was recently bolstered by the arrival of consultant
Zoe Round,
Emma Hubbard and
Melanie Hadwin from
Irwin Mitchell. The practice is well equipped to handle a range of family law issues, with niche expertise in wealth protection and surrogacy law, among other areas.
At
Hall Brown Family Law,
Izzy Walsh leads the London family law team and is recommended for her work with high-net-worth individuals in relation to matrimonial, Schedule 1 matters, and pre and post-nuptial agreements.
Catherine Bell advises on all aspects of family law, including divorce and financial remedy proceedings involving high-net-worth individuals.
Hall Brown Family Law is a boutique family law firm with offices in Manchester, London and Sheffield. The firm started trading in April 2016 and in only two years was ranked in the Top Tier of The Legal 500 where it has remained since. Highlights include:
- Five of the best known and most highly regarded matrimonial lawyers in Manchester/North West – Andrew Newbury, Beth Wilkins, James Brown, Sam Hall and Michael Devlin.
- Izzy Walsh, a Chambers and Partners High Net Worth ranked specialist has chosen to leave a top ranked London firm to head up Hall Brown’s London office. She is supported by Catherine Bell, a fellow Chambers and Partners High Net Worth ranked specialist and a team of lawyers in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
- Alison Fernandes, ranked in the top tier of Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners has chosen to leave a top ranked firm in Sheffield to head up Hall Brown’s Sheffield office.
- Every single lawyer in the entire firm has been recruited from or worked at a family law department that has been recognised as the best in the country by Chambers and Partners.
- Sam Hall and James Brown are now the “solicitors of choice” to present to Premier League and Championship clubs for “wealth protection” from a co-habiting or marital sense.
- Three quarters of the department’s workload consists of cases worth in excess of £5m.
- Nearly all of the firm’s work comes from personal referrals to each of the partners. Work is referred in by former clients and other professionals.
- The firm has already established itself as one of the country’s leading boutique family law firms.
Specialisms:
- High net worth cases. Current cases range from £10m to in excess of £550m.
- High profile cases. Current cases include over a dozen of the most famous sports stars in the world as well as high profile celebrities and business people, politicians and members of the judiciary.
- Complex financial cases including trusts, complicated business structures and injunctions.
- Assets across multiple jurisdictions.
- Complex and unusual pension arrangements.
- Pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements.
- Divorce
- Dissolution of civil partnerships.
- Schedule 1 Children Act cases, including paternity claims brought against well-known individuals.
- Co-habitation cases.
- Private children law (including leave to remove and child abduction).
Manchester, England
+3 other locations
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Sheffield, England
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London, England
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Leeds, England
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