Ella is a Senior Associate in the Family team.
Ella has extensive experience in all areas of family law, specialising in divorce, financial settlements, and nuptial agreements for high and ultra high net worth clients. She provides expert legal advice to entrepreneurs, business owners, senior professionals, and individuals with inherited family wealth.
Her expertise covers complex divorce cases involving substantial assets, including:
- Business ownership and corporate structures
- UK and international property portfolios
- Family trusts and inherited wealth
- 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. She combine’s technical excellence with a commercial, results-driven approach.
In addition to divorce and financial claims, Ella advises on pre-nuptial agreements and post-nuptial agreements, offering bespoke solutions tailored to clients with family businesses or generational wealth. Her agreements are 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.
Ella adopts a collaborative approach, drawing on the expertise of colleagues in the corporate, commercial, real estate and private wealth teams to address the wider issues that often arise in family matters. She also maintains strong relationships with a network of trust professionals (such as barristers, accountants, wealth managers and valuers) enabling her to assemble the right team for each case. This ensures that every client receives a comprehensive, seamless service protecting both personal and business interests.
Recent examples of how Ella has supported clients include:
- Acted for a wife in divorce and financial remedy proceedings, successfully securing the transfer of the family business with a value of c. £12M 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. The case involved complex applications under the Thwaite and Barrell jurisdictions.
- Advised a client on the enforceability of a pre-nuptial agreement with an asset based of £100M+.
- Acted for a client and running successful add-back claim concerning monies transferred by the wife overseas and securing all assets in the UK for the husband.
- Acted for a father in highly contested Children Act proceedings, successfully defending serious allegations of rape and controlling/coercive behaviour with the court finding the allegations to be malicious. Securing an order for the child to live with the father, with the mother limited to supervised contact. The case involved international relocation applications and port alert orders.
- Ella was involved in the reported case of W v H [2020] which was dubbed “probably the most important pension case of 2020”.