Company

BDB Pitmans

Position

Senior associate

Index

Family Lawyers

Legal

Location

London

Advice type

Legal - Complex family matters

Client Types

Families

Customer Type

Solicitor

Anna Stanworth

Spear’s Review

A full-service family lawyer, BDB Pitmans’ Anna Stanworth has significant experience of financial remedies and cohabitation disputes. Areas of specialism include applying for expedited divorce proceedings, issuing a divorce petition under the ‘lock and key’ procedure, and so-called ‘jurisdiction races’ (where parties rush to issue divorce proceedings in different territories).

Her notable financial remedy cases, meanwhile, have involved farming assets, properties abroad, unusual pension arrangements and unvested shares. She also drafts pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements, as well as cohabitation agreements to regulate financial matters during a couple’s relationship.

Where necessary, she can call on the support of colleagues from across BDB Pitmans’ private wealth department (including trust specialists), as well as third-party accountants and international tax and trust experts.

Adviser Profile

Anna advises on a broad range of family matters including divorce, financial remedies, private children issues, nuptial agreements, Family Law Act matters and cohabitation disputes, typically for high net worth individuals. Anna has been described by clients as being 'patience and kindness personified'. 

Anna is experienced at applying for expedited divorce proceedings and dealing with jurisdiction issues for international clients. Notable financial remedy cases have included complicated investment structures, dynastic family estates, farming assets, properties abroad, unusual pension arrangements and unvested shares. She also successfully acts for both mothers and fathers in a wide range of Children Act cases.

Rank: Recommended

Recommended 2023, Family Lawyers

Address

One Bartholomew Close, London, EC1A 7BL

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