Collyer Bristow LLP‘s ’first-rate‘ family law offering focuses on high-value matrimonial finance matters, including nuptial agreements, and private law children disputes. It is experienced in culturally complex matters involving the Jewish, Muslim, Catholic and Greek Orthodox faiths. Team head Toby Yerburgh is a ’first-class tactician’ with notable experience in international matters. For mediation, Philippa Dolan is a go-to, and Tanya Roberts is recommended for complex children matters.
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‘Tanya Roberts is an outstanding and very experienced family lawyer, equally at home with complex financial work and children work.'
‘Collyer Bristow are a first-rate family law team. Headed expertly by Toby Yerburgh, the team provides excellent, strategically astute and pragmatic advice to clients engaged in financial disputes or those involving the arrangements for children following a separation.'
‘Collyer Bristow have a very good team, perfectly set up to handle any case with efficiency and expertise.’
‘Christina Pippas is the perfect combination of bright, charming and tactically astute. She is efficient and organised, and clients love her.’
‘Philippa Dolan is highly experienced and seems unflappable in the face of pressure. She is very measured and gives sensible and proportionate advice. She is excellent at managing the client's expectations while being extremely sympathetic and supportive.’
‘Tanya Roberts is one of the most experienced children lawyers currently practising. She has first-class judgment, works unbelievably hard for her clients, and is a skilled tactician. She has a depth of experience in the most complex and difficult children and money work, and nothing fazes her.’
‘Toby Yerburgh is a first-class tactician. Very well versed in the complexities of business structures, trusts, offshore assets and able to provide advice that is detailed and commercially astute. Excellent with clients and a robust negotiator.'
- 'Laura Burrows is extremely conscientious, diligent and hardworking with an excellent attention to detail. Clients adore her and she gives excellent, pragmatic advice. Someone I frequently recommend to friends involved in their own family law disputes.’
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Practice head
Toby Yerburgh
Other key lawyers
Tanya Roberts; Michael Drake; Philippa Dolan; Laura Burrows; Bethany Wood; Christina Pippas; Charmaine Hast