Rosie Schumm > Forsters LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Forsters LLP
22 Baker Street
LONDON
W1U 3BW
England
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Work Department

Family

Position

Partner

Career

Rosie is a Partner in Forsters’ Family team and is known for taking a creative and pragmatic approach to family law to achieve the best outcome for her clients. She specialises in advising high net worth clients on complex divorce and financial matters, including those relating to children.

Her work frequently has an international dimension, involving trusts, offshore assets and family businesses. She is also highly experienced in preparing and negotiating pre and post nuptial agreements for high net worth families.

Rosie is a regular commentator on developments in family law and has appeared in The Telegraph, Times, and The Guardian and written articles for the Law Society Gazette and Spears. She has presented seminars to wealth managers, city bankers, accountants, fiduciary services and mediators and has prepared presentations for family law and private client conferences in Italy, the Channel Islands and London.

Rosie joined Forsters in March 2017, having previously been a Partner at Wedlake Bell. Prior to this, she worked at Camilla Baldwin and Penningtons Manches, where she qualified. Rosie graduated from Oxford University in 2000.

Rosie is recognised as a ‘Leading Individual’ in the Legal 500 2023 edition and is ranked in the Chambers UK and HNW guides for her work on a wide spectrum of family issues. She is recognised as a ‘Top Recommended Lawyer’ in the Spear’s 500 2023 directory.

Memberships

The Law Society

Lawyer Rankings

London > Private client > Family

(Leading partners)

Rosie SchummForsters LLP

Sitting within ‘one of the best private client teams in the country‘, the Forsters LLP family team applies a ‘rigorous and realistic approach’ to its cases including high-value nuptial agreements and international child arrangements. Team head Joanne Edwards is ‘one of the leading family lawyers of her generation‘, a mediator often dealing with international children and finance matters. Rosie Schumm, ‘a charismatic and dynamic stand out individual‘, is a go-to for strategic advice in complex matters. Simon Blain regularly handles child relocation matters and provides advice on international surrogacy arrangements, while Dickon Ceadel specialises in the negotiation of international nuptial agreements. Amanda Sandys is recommended for her ‘great judgment‘, and is regularly sought out by unmarried families.