Bio
Niki is a Family Partner.
Niki works 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, with 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 more than £154 million, and involving the ownership of a prolific football club.
She is regularly instructed in relation to pre-nuptial agreements, and is also 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 experience in applications concerning international child abduction (such as applications made under the Hague Convention 1980), and has been involved in several international cases, including those in the territories of Spain, Austria, Australia, Israel, Dubai, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States.
She is recognised in the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.
Examples of Niki’s work 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 cohabitation agreements.
- Acting for an international footballer in relation to provision of advice across multiple jurisdictions.