Carly Kinch

Spear’s Review

Carly Kinch identifies her ‘no stone unturned’ attitude and her ‘results-focused’ mindset as essential to her detail-orientated approach to her complex family law cases, many of which involve high-value assets.

She has a diverse HNW client base, previously advising ‘a well-known telecoms pioneer’, a family with assets valued at over $3 billion, and the wife of a billionaire diamond merchant. A significant proportion of her clientele hail from Monaco and the US.

She joined Stewarts in 2006, where she shot up from paralegal to partner within the space of 12 years. More recently she has acted as ‘second chair’ to Stephen Foster, partner and head of the divorce and family department at Stewarts, in ‘numerous high-level matters’.

Adviser Profile

Carly Kinch is a partner in the Divorce and Family team at Stewarts, the UK’s largest litigation-only law firm. She specialises in all areas of family law, with a particular emphasis on the resolution of complex issues arising on divorce. She also regularly advises on nuptial agreements and wealth protection. 

Carly has extensive experience in financial cases with an international element or those involving trusts or asset holding structures, inherited wealth or businesses, where issues of valuation and liquidity arise. Her clients include entrepreneurs, business owners, landowners, city professionals and their spouses/partners. 

Carly is equally adept at resolving complex parental disputes and has extensive experience in dealing with residence, contact, relocation and parental responsibility issues. 

Carly is consistently recognised in all of the leading directories. She features in the most recent ‘Top Recommended Family Lawyers’ list of the Spear’s 500 Wealth Guide and is ranked as a ‘Next Generation Partner’ by Legal 500.

Carly is described as a “top-focussed individual with qualities of support and realism for clients of any background or wealth and motivation. This is a skill much in demand with high-net-worth clients.” 

Chambers HNW states Carly is “ridiculously talented” and an “unsung hero, she is brilliant. Her knowledge of the law is the best, she has judgement anyone would love to have. She is extremely numerate and her understanding of corporate structures and trusts is phenomenal.” 

Chambers UK states: “You would be lucky to have her on your team. She’s a seriously good lawyer, who is bright, tenacious and absolutely amazing with clients.”