Company
Position
Managing director
Owner
Index
Family Lawyers
Location
Exeter
Advice type
Cohabitation
Divorces
Financial remedies
Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements
Client type
Business Leaders
Finance professionals
HNW
Sector Focus
Legal Advisory Services
Rachel Buckley
Spear’s Review
‘I’m really proactive; I don’t just wait for things to happen,’ says Rachel Buckley, joint managing director and head of the divorce and finance team at The Family Law Company.
Buckley advises high-net-worth clients, business owners, shareholders and high-ranking professionals on matters relating to the financial aspects of relationship breakdown. This can range from drawing up pre- and postnuptial agreements to acting for clients seeking to divide assets as a result of separation or divorce.
She is also a recently qualified Resolution Together practitioner, equipped to offer a ‘one lawyer, two clients’ approach. Indeed, the firm as a whole offers various forms of alternative dispute resolution, Buckley says.
Clients also appreciate Buckley’s timeliness of response: ‘I think that’s because I have such an empathy with people, knowing that they’re going to be really distressed.’
Adviser Profile
Rachel Buckley is an experienced high-net-worth divorce and finance solicitor and collaborative lawyer. She is Resolution Together qualified (one lawyer, two client model), showcasing her commitment to providing divorcing HNW couples with effective, dignified ways of separating. Determined to offer clients a different approach, she is part of the driving force behind The Family Law Company’s culture and award-winning client experience.
Acting for clients across the UK, Rachel specialises in highly complex and high-value divorce and finance matters. She also supports clients through complex civil partnership dissolution. Her cases often involve complex pension assets, trust implications, business interests and substantial incomes.
Her clients include entrepreneurs, high-profile business owners, influential sportspeople, landowners and high-net-worth individuals. She is praised by her clients not only for her ‘skills at cutting through the extraneous details’ and ‘professionalism that is second to none’ but also for being ‘compassionate and caring’. Her understanding and trauma-led approach is invaluable to those clients who have experienced domestic abuse.
Rachel also works closely with The Family Law Company’s dedicated unmarried family finance team, applying her considerable expertise to the preparation of pre-nuptial and cohabitation agreements for high-net-worth individuals. Her expertise is recognised by inclusion in several HNW guides recognised and highly regarded by figures in private wealth management. Rachel also provides regular commentary in the legal, regional and national media.
Rank: Recommended
Recommended 2025, Family Lawyers
Address
Baliol House, Southernhay Gardens, Exeter, EX1 1NP, United Kingdom