Simon McKirgan

Spear’s Review

Vardags senior partner Simon McKirgan focuses on ultra-high-value divorce cases – which can often involve assets in the hundreds of millions of pounds. The team works with UHNWs and HNWs from the worlds of commerce, banking, the media and sport, adopting ‘a deeply forensic approach’.

He has a wealth of experience in the most complex international disputes, where assets are often locked away in businesses, trusts and offshore structures and involve petitions in multiple jurisdictions.

Ultimately, however, McKirgan says his work is about more than money: ‘It’s hugely satisfying to know that you are making a real difference to someone during a very difficult time in their lives.’ 

Adviser Profile

Simon delivers life-changing results for clients, attracting a select clientele who trust him to preserve their privacy and discretion whilst pursuing the best outcomes. His recent cases incorporate multi-billion-pound family fortunes, complex disputes relating to jurisdiction and hotly contested legal issues, such as special contribution.

Regarded as one of the best legal minds in family law, Simon takes a forensic approach to cases that renders him an unrivalled market leader in dealing with asset-locked wealth in businesses, complex trusts and other offshore structures in jurisdictions across the globe, with a reputation for being able to unravel even the most sophisticated of efforts to hide assets.