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Camilla Baldwin, who founded her eponymous Mayfair boutique in 2005, acts for entrepreneurs, businesspeople, private equity figures and the occasional very famous footballer. Her work is complex and international by nature: she recently drafted a multi-jurisdictional prenuptial agreement for the heir to a supermarket empire.

Like most family lawyers at the top of the field, she tells Spear’s that she keeps her cases out of court where she can, favouring private FDRs and arbitration to ‘try to keep it out of the papers’.

Alongside her private client practice, Baldwin runs a charity, Not Beyond Redemption – founded in 2018 – which helps imprisoned mothers maintain contact with their children. The cycle is bleak, she explains: imprisoned women lose their homes and then their children to foster care, and on release ‘they have nowhere to live and therefore can’t get their kids back’. What she offers, alongside a group of volunteers from the legal industry, is advice on parental rights and how to navigate the legal system.

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‘I am there 24/7 for my clients as they go through this hideous time.’

Camilla is the founding partner of her eponymous boutique family law firm in the heart of Mayfair, which is still thriving after 20 years of practice. With over 30 years of post-qualification experience in family law, and a ranking of Top Flight in The Spear’s 500 four years in a row, she is a seasoned veteran of many high-value divorce cases and a steady hand in even the most complex and fraught of cases.

Camilla exclusively advises HNW and UHNW individuals in all areas of family law, with expertise covering the full breadth of financial issues for married and unmarried separating couples, as well as international and domestic child disputes. She also advises on complex pre- and postnuptial agreements, many with sophisticated trust structures and significant international assets.

Camilla’s clients include royalty, landed gentry, politicians and those in the public eye, celebrities, self-made millionaires and billionaires, and those with significant inherited wealth. Recently described by Chambers as ‘absolutely first-rate’, and by the Legal 500 as having ‘outstanding’ tactical skill, Camilla’s reputation as one of the best family lawyers in the world is hard earned and fiercely retained. Camilla’s clients can have no doubt that their case will be handled with skill and care, and that they will quickly be provided with a coherent and comprehensive strategy for how their end goals in any matter can be achieved in a discreet and efficient manner.

Camilla is a renowned authority on the technical aspects of family law, regularly attending and lecturing at international family law and private client events, and chairing the first two Cambridge Forums on high-net-worth family law.