Loraine Davenport

Spear’s Review

Loraine Davenport joined Anthony Gold in late 2024 and soon was named head of the firm’s family and relationships department. Formerly a director at Hawkins Family Law, Davenport’s practice at Anthony Gold is focused around the financial issues arising from separation and divorce, as well as complex children issues. 

HNW clients are attracted to Davenport’s expertise due to her well-rounded approach to resolution. ‘Clients like my compassionate approach,’ Davenport tells Spear’s. ‘They say that I’m very balanced, but I make them feel better, and that I will always fight what can be fought, but negotiate what shouldn’t be.’

Indeed, Davenport is an advocate for hybrid mediation and collaborative law, and she also regularly partakes in the ‘one lawyer, one client’ approach, which tends to be much friendlier and positive. So friendly, in fact, that Davenport has reported a number of reconciliations between couples.

Adviser Profile

Loraine has over 20 years experience in all aspects of family law. In recent years she has particularly focused on high-net-worth financial cases, particularly more complex cases involving trusts, company assets and pensions as well as complex children matters.

As Head of Department, Loraine leads an impressive team of highly respected lawyers. She is known for her sound judgement, balance and compassion and adopts a client-focussed approach.

Loraine is an experienced advocate, a trained mediator – including hybrid mediation – and collaborative practitioner, and also now trained as a Resolution Together practitioner, enabling her to advise separating couples jointly when appropriate.

The ethos of the team led by Loraine is very much client-focused, embracing and being known for their active NCDR focus and work with Resolution.

She brings a learned objectivity to every case, informed by the law and focused on her clients’ needs. Loraine is a keen advocate but believes in the Resolution Code of Practice and that court should always be a last resort. She prioritises out-of-court dispute resolution as it is often more cost-effective and beneficial for her clients’ well-being. Loraine’s practice is predominantly high-net-worth ancillary relief including cases involving complex company and trust issues and complex children including surrogacy and relocation. She is a Resolution accredited specialist and trained as a collaborative lawyer in 2005. Since then, she has successfully concluded dozens of collaborative cases.

The range of skills that Loraine brings to any case helps her to achieve the best outcome for her clients.