Jennifer Headon

Spear’s Review

As head of international family law at London-based Birketts, Jennifer Headon leads one of the firm’s fastest-growing teams, providing cross-border solutions for UHNW clients going through relationship breakdowns.

Since joining Birketts from Miles Preston, where she worked on high-profile cases such as Richardson v Ruhan, she has built a well-regarded practice ‘from the ground up’. Most of the families she advises ‘are international in some shape or form’, she tells Spear’s, and Headon’s cases often involve highly complex financial structures such as offshore trusts. To this end, she frequently consults with solicitors from the US, the Cayman Islands, the Netherlands and British Columbia, among others.

She also created the firm’s modern families practice, which seeks to provide accurate legal advice to LGBTQ+ and UHNW couples looking to adopt or engage in surrogacy arrangements abroad.