Amy Radnor

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Practice areas

Family and Divorce

Amy has extensive experience advising clients on all aspects of relationship breakdown and wealth protection, including financial claims on divorce, financial claims between unmarried couples, and issues relating to children. She is regularly instructed on pre- and post-nuptial agreements and is committed to helping clients navigate that process smoothly, discreetly and effectively.

In addition to parents and separating spouses / couples, Amy also advises trustees, grandparents, schools and family offices. Many of Amy’s cases involve multiple jurisdictions and complex asset structures and her clients recognise and value her strategic approach, calmness under pressure, and clear advice. She is a highly experienced litigator and equally skilled at negotiating resolutions privately where that best serves clients and their families.

Amy is recognised for her particular strength in complex children disputes, including those with an international element. She has strong links with lawyers in a wide range of international jurisdictions and is experienced at working in collaboration to achieve the best outcome for her clients.

Memberships & Accolades

Amy is a member of Resolution and the International Bar Association.

Amy is recognised as a Next Generation Partner in Legal 500 2024, 2023 and 2022, a Recommended Family Lawyer in Spear’s 500 2023, a Rising Star in Spear’s 500 2022 and 2021, and is ranked Band 5 in Chambers High Net Worth 2024.

Amy regularly speaks at national and international family law conferences and is a frequent contributor of articles to the legal press. She has been published more widely in publications such as the Financial Times, Times, City AM, and Cosmopolitan. She contributed to Privacy and Disclosure for Family Lawyers: A Resolution Guide (2011), and Advising the Wealthy Client: A Handbook for Working with the Ultra Wealthy (2020).

Reported Cases

DR v (1) ES and (2) JS and KS [2024] EWFC 176

Acting for the husband in long-running and complex financial proceedings involving the disputed beneficial ownership of a family business structure.
A v M [2023] EWHC 1900 (Fam)

Successfully represented the wife in complex financial remedy proceedings involving a minority shareholding in a family-owned company, and successfully resisted the husband’s application for permission to appeal.
A and B (Child Arrangements: Parental Alienation) [2022] EWFC B1

Successfully represented the mother in a complex children case involving parental alienation.
WX v YZ [2021] EWHC 3725

Acted for the father in High Court proceedings involving the removal of children to England and Wales from the United Arab Emirates.
Bloom v Bloom [2018] EWFC B10
Acting for the wider family in a complex case involving serious allegations.
J v S (Leave to Remove) [2010] EWHC 2098 (Fam)

Successfully secured permission for a mother to relocate permanently to Japan, post divorce, with the two children of the marriage.

External Publications

Amy co-authored a chapter dealing with trusts and nuptial agreements in Advising the Wealthy Client: A Handbook for Working with the Ultra Wealthy (2020).
Amy contributed to Privacy and Disclosure for Family Lawyers: A Resolution Guide (2011).

Testimonials

“Amy has pragmatism and realism. She is incredibly clever, very talented and a very good family lawyer." (Chambers HNW 2024)

“Amy has very good client skills and is efficient and well organised." (Chambers HNW 2024)

“Amy Radnor was exceptionally supportive before and throughout the case, providing sound, constructive and realistic advice, particularly when the case was getting more and more difficult and complicated. She acted with extreme empathy, compassion and integrity, supporting me throughout until reaching a sound solution.” (Legal 500 2024)

"Amy is a very impressive lawyer. She is bright, hard-working and the one to watch in terms of 'next generation' younger partners. She is strategic, her drafting skills are very impressive and she is extremely empathetic." (Chambers HNW 2023)

"Amy Radnor is an absolutely exceptional professional, a true standout in terms of depth of understanding of the law, clarity in the communication with clients with straightforward informative explanations of the options available, capable of delivering very sound tailored advice on exceptionally complex situations with significant cross-border challenges, totally reliable and with an unwavering professional ethic." (Chambers HNW 2023)

"She is one of the up-and-coming stars of the future. She is very strategic and she sees the big picture. Her drafting skills are second to none." (Chambers UK 2023)

"Amy can handle sticky legal areas and is really good at complex international jurisdictional issues" (Chambers UK 2023)

"Amy is resilient in dealing with complex cases; she has a really gentle manner with children cases and is also really hard-working and diligent." (Chambers UK 2023)

One source says: "She's very collaborative and very accessible. She's very solution-driven and easy to deal with." Another comments: "She is very understated. She is pragmatic, very knowledgeable and really good at trying to come up with solutions." (Chambers UK High Net Worth Guide 2022).

“She gets on with the work in an unassuming but highly effective manner which clients love.” (Spear’s 2021)

“She has a bright future ahead of her.” (Spear’s 2021)