Anna is a specialist family lawyer with expertise in all aspects of divorce, financial remedies, disputes relating to children, cohabitation, financial provision for unmarried parents and pre/post nuptial agreements.
She has significant experience in cases involving complex financial issues resulting from a relationship breaking down. Often these involve valuable and important assets, including properties, businesses, offshore trusts and complex corporate structures.
She advises clients on issues relating to children following separation, including contact arrangements, relocation within UK and internationally, and child abduction. She works with clients to sensitively achieve child focused and practical solutions to often complex and protracted disputes concerning children.
She qualified as a solicitor in 2011 and spent 14 years working at top London law firms, Payne Hicks Beach and Fladgate LLP, before moving to Adler Family Law in 2025. This experience enables her to provide city service at regional rates. Anna’s early career was spent as a commercial and media litigation lawyer which means she is well placed to assist family law clients where there are commercial or privacy issues at play.
Anna has been ranked as an ‘Associate to watch’ in Chambers and Partners HNW Guide and as a key lawyer in the Legal 500.
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Past work includes:
- Advising on a multi-jurisdictional (Russia, France, Switzerland and UK) pre nuptial agreement.
- Acting for a client in a complex dispute concerning the division of assets on divorce, where the assets were based offshore and held via various trust and corporate entities.
- Urgent advice, including commencing court proceedings for a parent whose two children had been abducted by their other parent, with the children successfully being returned to our client.
- Acting for a parent in a complex child dispute involving allegations of abuse and parental alienation. Successfully achieving a Court Order awarding the client sole residence of the child.
Anna is a mother of two young children and grew up locally. She is now enjoying sharing with them the local places and activities she enjoyed herself whilst growing up.
