Niki is a Partner in the Family team.
She is vastly experienced in working alongside high and ultra-high net worth clients; many of whom are high-profile sports or media personalities or high-ranking company executives.
Niki is a specialist in acting for athletes across all sports but has particular expertise in football and women's sport. Away from sport, she acted in one of the UK's biggest divorce cases of 2018, in both value and profile, with a net asset base of £154m+, and involving the ownership of a prolific football club. She is regularly instructed in relation to pre-nuptial agreements and is also highly experienced in legal matters pertaining to surrogacy and fertility treatments, including those with an international element.
Niki is one of few practitioners in the UK having significant experience in applications concerning international child abduction such as applications made under the Hague Convention 1980 – and she has been involved in several international cases, including those in the territories of Spain, Austria, Portugal, Australia, Israel, Dubai, Jamaica and the United States.
She is recognised in the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners where she is described as “a fearless litigator who will fight to the end for her clients”.
Recent examples of how Niki supports clients include:
- Acting for a retired premier league footballer come pundit in a Schedule 1 claim;
- Acting for a TV personality in relation to divorce and finances concerning complex trusts and overseas assets;
- Acting for the wife of a football club owner in relation to divorce finances and engaging as Intervenors in ancillary proceedings under the Chancery Court;
- Acting for premiership footballers in relation to the entering into pre-nuptial and/or cohabitation agreements;
- Acting for an international footballer in relation to provision of advice across multiple jurisdictions;
- Acting for father of a child wrongfully taken out of the jurisdiction, thereto conducting proceedings under the Hague Convention 1980 in Los Angeles, USA;
- Acting for the wife in relation to consent issues related to frozen embryos upon marriage breakdown;
- Acting for a wife and running a successful add-back claim in excess of £1m concerning monies expended upon the husband’s gambling activities in accordance with Vaughn v Vaughn [2007] and MAP v MFP [2015]; and
- Acting for an ex-pat in Jamaica in relation to the Cohabitational Reforms Act 1998 (Trinidad) concerning a claim being made over property and business interests