Bio
Shane is a Family Partner.
Recognised by the Legal 500, Shane specialises in advising business owners, high-net-worth individuals, and landowners navigating a relationship breakdown across a range of matters including complex financial disputes, matters involving children, farming divorce, and wealth protection.
Her expertise spans divorce, dissolution and separation proceedings; financial settlements (including high-value and complex asset cases); children arrangements and parenting disputes; international family law and cross-border matters; pre-nuptial, post-nuptial and cohabitation agreements; unmarried family breakdown and civil partnership matters; family business, trust and inherited wealth issues on separation; pension division and long-term financial planning; relocation and cross-border child arrangements; financial provision for children (including Schedule 1 claims); enforcement and variation of financial and court orders; complex asset structures (including trusts, business interests and inherited wealth); and share incentives and executive remuneration disputes (including share options, Restricted Stock Units SUs and Long-term Incentive Plans).
Examples of Shane’s work include:
- Advising on pre-nuptial agreements for high-net-worth business owners, landowners and farmers to preserve legacy and wealth planning.
- Working with business owners when they separate or divorce, including advising on considerations around business valuations on how the business should operate during the period of separation.
- Advising farmers when they divorce.
- Advising cohabiting, unmarried couples on matters relating to the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 where the beneficial ownership of the property is in dispute.
- Advising on matters relating to Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989, including schooling and re-location.