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Company

Mills & Reeve

Position

Partner

Index

Family Lawyers

Location

Norwich

Advice type

Alternative dispute resolution

Cohabitation

Divorces

Estate and succession planning

Financial remedies

Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements

Client type

Families

HNW

Sector Focus

Legal Advisory Services

Geographical focus

Norwich

Cambridge

London

Frances Bailey

Spear’s Review

A partner at Mills & Reeve, Frances Bailey is a key figure in the firm’s family team, advising clients across Norwich, Cambridge and London.

Her cases typically involve complex financial matters, and she has a particular focus on clients with family businesses or landed estates, or who come from farming families. Wealth protection is often a priority, and so Bailey works closely with Mills & Reeve’s private client team. She has also been instrumental in the development of ‘precedent prenups’, which act as a standard prenuptial agreement that can be used for all members of the same family.

As a trained mediator, Bailey handles most of her cases through non-court dispute resolution methods. ‘Court is a last resort,’ she tells Spear’s. ‘It has its place, but I’m a great believer in all forms of dispute resolution.’

Read next: What is a precedent prenup?

Rank: Recommended

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