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Position
Maisie is a tenacious litigator. She has great commercial acumen and an ability to understand clients and their businesses. Maisie frequently represents high net worth clients on complex financial matters and has been commended by senior junior Counsels and KCs her impressive handling of cases and strategic decisions.
Maisie is part of our Teams of Excellence for Court of Protection / personal injury settlement work. Maisie handles cases where clients lack capacity and/or have suffered a significant injury. Maisie also advises our Serious Injury teams on claims for legal costs relating to a divorce and financial proceedings in schedules of loss; this includes providing statements to the Court in support of those heads of loss.
Maisie confidently undertakes her own advocacy, often against experienced Partners and Counsel.
As well as her own complex caseload, Maisie works closely with Ros Bever and other Partners across our National Team, specialising in UHNW and HNW matters with a particular specialism in Private Equity assets and complex trusts structures
Maisie’s recent notable cases include:
• Having assisted a Partner in acting for a client worth £16m in financial remedy proceedings, Maisie was instructed by the client to advise in relation to a pre-nuptial agreement.
• Representing a local businessman whose company is due to complete on a £40m deal in his divorce. The settlement involves a company restructure and complex tax issues.
• Securing s37 Freezing Orders to preserve over £5.8m of assets, third party disclosure orders, and a set aside of a property transfer, in ongoing protracted proceedings.
• Advising on a pre-nuptial agreement in circumstances where the client is due to receive an inheritance in excess of £10m and is the beneficiary of family trusts.
• Representing a client in a divorce where the sole asset is her future damages from a wrongful birth claim valued at > £5m.
Career
Qualified in September 2014; joined Irwin Mitchell in 2015.
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Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- ‘Maisie Huynh is a star in the making. She is enormously knowledgeable and has a razor-sharp mind. Maisie shows judgement way beyond her years. Her client care skills are first class.’ ‘As a top law firm, Irwin Mitchell have every resource at their disposal - top talent from a diverse pool of individuals.' 'There is no case that is beyond Irwin Mitchell or which they are do not have the means of addressing, given the range of talent at their disposal.’ 'James Henshall - James has enormous potential and will go from strength to strength.’ ‘Irwin Mitchell has developed specialist teams and is increasingly focusing on family mediation and Sharia law. They have successfully diversified to address emerging needs, staying ahead of the curve in response to the growing importance of NCDR by expanding their services to better serve clients.’ ‘Sarah Al-Jourani is ahead of the curve in recognising and addressing the gap in mediation and NCDR within Sharia law, making her the go-to expert in this specialised area.’ ‘They are excellent in terms of their attention to detail and the way they deal with clients.’ ‘Anna Chenoweth is second to none. She is calm under pressure, always knows the answer and knows precisely how hard to litigate, and when.’ 'There is always a hands on approach with a clear client caring attitude. There are many very good professionals in the team around the UK.' 'Sarah Al-Jourani. She is very knowledgeable about Islamic law to the extent that I will be collaborating with her to import some of that knowledge for Nova Engage, an AI application in family law.' 'They are excellent in terms of their attention to detail and the way they deal with clients.'