Bio
Ella is a Family Senior Associate.
Ella advises across all areas of family law, specialising in divorce, financial settlements, and nuptial agreements for high- and ultra-high-net-worth clients.
She works with entrepreneurs, business owners, senior professionals, and individuals with inherited family wealth.
Her expertise spans complex divorce cases involving substantial assets, including business ownership and corporate structures, UK and international property portfolios, family trusts and inherited wealth, and investments, pensions, and high-value financial arrangements.
Ella has experience in negotiating fair and strategic financial settlements that protect her clients’ wealth, while considering long-term security for future generations.
Alongside divorce and financial claims, Ella advises on pre- and post-nuptial agreements, offering bespoke solutions which are tailored to clients with family businesses or generational wealth, and designed to provide clarity, safeguard assets, and minimise future disputes.
She regularly undertakes complex Children Act proceedings involving contested private law proceedings regarding all aspects of a child’s upbringing, including applications by parents to relocate their children outside of the UK, and where there are serious allegations of domestic abuse.
Examples of Ella’s work include:
- Acting for a wife in divorce and financial remedy proceedings, successfully securing the transfer of the family business with a value of circa £12 million into her sole name to enable the business to be restructured due to risk posed by the husband, despite her not being a shareholder or director.
- Advising a client on the enforceability of a pre-nuptial agreement with an asset base of £100 million+.
- Acting for a client in running a successful add-back claim concerning monies transferred by the wife overseas and securing all assets in the UK for the husband.
- Acting for a father in highly-contested Children Act proceedings, successfully defending serious allegations of rape and controlling and coercive behaviour (with the court finding the allegations to be malicious), and securing an order for the child to live with the father, with the mother limited to supervised contact.
- Supporting on the reported pension case of W v H [2020].