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Farhana Shahzady

Farhana is a Director in the Family Law Partners London office and joint head of the team based in Marylebone. She is an accredited family law specialist, a collaborative lawyer and a qualified mediator. Farhana has extensive expertise across the full family law spectrum, including divorce and separation, cohabitation and

Rachael Hall

Rachael is an NHS Pension Specialist, Independent Financial Adviser, Financial Coach, and co-founder of Seven Stages Limited and Seven Medical.

David Lillywhite

David is a Partner, Mediator and Collaborative Lawyer at Burgess Mee Family Law. He deals with all types of family law work including advising upon divorce and separation, matrimonial finance (often involving substantial assets and/or with an overseas element), Schedule 1 applications (financial provision involving unmarried parents), pre-and post-nuptial

Edward Cooke

Edward is a family lawyer and mediator at Edward Cooke Family Law, a boutique family law practice with nine lawyers and five mediators and offices in Chichester, Brighton and Farnham. Edward was recently named Child Inclusive Mediator of the Year at the 2024 National Mediation Awards and won Family Law

Elissa Da-Costa Waldman

Elissa has been a practising barrister for over three decades, having worked in the law for almost 50 years. Practising from New Court Chambers, she is a specialist in matrimonial finance and TOLATA claims and also takes on private law children work, particularly relocation cases, both domestic and international. Although

Helen Brander

Helen Brander

Helen is a barrister and arbitrator at Pump Court Chambers working in the fields of matrimonial finance and inheritance, trusts and estates. She complements that with private Children Act 1989 work. She writes and lectures frequently on matters of interest, including document manipulation, cryptoassets, financial provision for adult children and

Ben McGeoch

Ben is a Chartered Financial Analyst and Director of Mltpl. He previously worked at a leading global disputes and valuation practice and brings a wealth of experience in the preparation of expert reports and supporting analysis, in both family and commercial disputes.