Christian is a Partner in the Family Team.
He has extensive experience in all areas of family law. He is an expert in high and ultra-high net worth divorces and separations that involve complex assets and holdings, including companies, pensions, trusts, land, and property portfolios, in the UK and worldwide.
Christian also specialises in asset protection, injunctions and pre and postnuptial agreements.
Christian’s clients are based nationally and internationally, and include business owners and directors, landowners, farmers, sports and media personalities, and their spouses and wider family.
Christian works closely with our corporate, commercial, real estate and private wealth teams, in addition to a large network of other experts including accountants, barristers, wealth advisers and valuers to ensure clients receive premium and holistic service.
Christian has a worthy reputation for his high-level legal advice, compassion, and dedication to pursuing the best outcome for his clients. His approach is empathetic, constructive, and practical.
Examples of how Christian supports his clients include:
- Acting for a business owner with an asset base of £50m+ and an income of £5m+ per year in entering into a pre-nuptial agreement.
- Acting for the main shareholder of a family company in complex and highly contested financial remedy proceedings, involving disputes regarding matrimonial and non-matrimonial assets and income needs.
- Acting for a family of landowning farmers with land and property holdings valued £10m+ as Intervenors in fiercely contentious financial remedy proceedings involving one of the sons going through divorce who was also a partner in the farming partnership.
- Acting for a client in divorce and financial remedy proceedings whose assets included crypto-currency (valued in excess of £1m+), multiple luxury properties, shares, and pension assets in multiple jurisdictions.
- Acting for a well-known media personality in divorce and financial remedy proceedings.
- Acting for a client in a variation of maintenance application, where total assets base exceeded £10m.
- Acting for the wife of a well-known CEO with an asset base more than £80m with complex assets in multiple jurisdictions.
- Acting for the wife of an ex-premiership footballer in divorce and financial remedy proceedings, we complex issues including debt demands and film schemes.
- Acting for a client and running successful add-back claim concerning monies dissipated by the husband, including emergency injunctions and protective orders.