Helen Ioannou

Helen advises on all aspects of family law, divorce and separation, including cases with an international element.

She acts for business owners, as well as professionals, including in sport, health care or private practice.

Helen has experience of matrimonial disputes when the assets are modest, as well as those of high-net-worth with complex business and trust structures.

She also has extensive experience in dealing with high-end pre-nuptial and post nuptial agreements, often involving other jurisdictions including the US and France. She has also advised couples for cohabitation agreements when there is no intention to marry, and couples who are not married and are separating (including separation agreements and those under the Trust of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996).

Helen also represents parents who have issues with their child arrangements, and advises on all aspects including internal and external relocation cases, parental responsibility disputes and abductions involving both Hague and non-Hague countries.

She also deals with clients who face domestic abuse and coercive control, and assists with non-molestation orders to protect them during the separation process.

Examples of Helen’s work include:

• Acting for a husband in a jurisdiction battle between Greece and the UK and potential freezing application made by the wife. The husband was successful in securing the jurisdiction of Greece to hear the divorce.
• Acting for a mother who had to flee from Egypt with her child without the father’s permission. The application opposing the return of the child to Egypt was successful.
• Acting for a father in an abduction by the mother with a successful Pakistan Application to return the child and reunite them with the father.
• Advising on the reported case of Ramadani v Ramadani [2015] EWCA Civ 1138, involving assets located worldwide.