Katz Partners is a Divorce and Family law firm specialising in high net worth and complex cases.
WHAT WE DO
Our team specialise in all private Family law issues with a focus on high value, complex financial cases upon divorce. We have led and won a number of ground breaking cases, some of which have established new law.
We represent a broad range of clients, many of whom have a public profile, domestically and internationally.
We are adept at dealing with cases which involve sophisticated asset structures, often with an international element and off shore trust and tax issues.
Katz Partners is a market leading team of Family lawyers with formidable experience in what we do.
We are known to be discreet, pragmatic and innovative lawyers who work around the clock to provide a stellar service for our clients.
We recognise the sensitive and difficult nature of relationship breakdown, and the issues which come with it.
We provide a very high level of client service with a focus on empathy, integrity and a constructive approach.
“Katz Partners displayed flawless execution and exceptional client care at all times, day or night. They are second to none, exceptionally commercial and focused on finding the most efficient outcome.”
“There is an extremely competent and very responsive team behind Katz Partners, a real sign of a well-run firm with a culture of hiring and retaining the best.”
Chambers & Partners HNW Guide 2023
“Katz Partners continues to go from strength to strength. They are doing stunning work for a formidable client roster. The partners are extremely knowledgeable and lead a very experienced team with phenomenal abilities”
Chambers & Partners HNW Guide 2022
Areas of expertise
• Separation and divorce
• Finances
• Cohabitation and unmarried relationships
• Children
• Pre-nuptial and Post-nuptial agreements
Meet THE Team
PARTNERS
Davina Katz
Davina Katz is Senior Partner of Katz Partners.
She is widely recognised as one of the leading divorce lawyers in England and Wales:
“The master strategist - Katz is an exceptional lawyer” (Chambers & Partners)
“Katz has handled many of the most high-profile matrimonial finance decisions over the last decade” (Chambers & Partners)
“Katz is brilliant - tenacious, strategic, thorough. Her judgment is second to none” (Chambers & Partners HNW Guide)
She is ranked as a leader in her field in Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500, The Citywealth Leaders List and the Spears 500. The Spear’s Indices rank her as 1 of 10 Top Flight Family lawyers in England and Wales.
Davina's practice deals with all private Family law matters with a focus on very high value financial cases upon divorce and complex children matters. She has a long established and highly regarded practice in pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements, both domestically and internationally. She is a very experienced litigator who has led proceedings at High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court levels.
She trained and spent 8 years at Mishcon de Reya and 10 years at Schillings, which she joined in 2009 to establish its award-winning Family department.
Davina founded Katz Partners in 2019.
+44 203 859 3525
davina@katzllp.com
Davina has received numerous industry awards, most recently the Citywealth Woman of the Year Award for Business Growth and inclusion in The Lawyer's Hot 100. She is a frequent writer and broadcaster on Family law issues on television and radio, and in the national press - notably in The Times and The Financial Times.
“Davina is recognised by the two leading independent legal directories, Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 in Band 1 as a Leading Individual:
”Katz is an exceptional lawyer, a consummate professional - she’s incredibly experienced and beyond knowledgeable. A first choice for ultra high net worth cases” - Chambers & Partners HNW Guide (2023)
”Katz is brilliant - an outstanding divorce lawyer” - Chambers & Partners (2022)
”Katz is utterly superb, she is intellectually robust and creative. She is dynamic, incisive and cuts through to the heart of any issue with insight and vast emotional intelligence” - Chambers & Partners HNW Guide (2021)
”She is incredibly bright and incredibly articulate - her judgment is second to none” - Chambers & Partners HNW Guide (2020)
”Exceptional” - Chambers & Partners (2020)
”Absolutely excellent - not afraid of a fight, highly respected for her excellent instinctive judgment as to the merits and likely outcome of any case she is involved with - particularly experienced in advising clients from the financial sector.” - Legal 500 (2019)
“An undoubted force in the Family arena with a formidable reputation and an outstanding client roster. She has a real nose for how a case will turn out.” - Chambers & Partners (2019)
”Personable, highly intelligent and very commercial with an excellent reputation for understanding clients’ needs and handling high profile and complex cases.” - Legal 500 (2019)
“Katz sits in the apex of her field; a star solicitor.” Legal 500 (2018)”
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David Greer
David Greer is a founding Partner of Katz Partners.
He is a well known and very experienced Family lawyer, who has worked with Davina Katz for almost 20 years years. His clients are high net worth individuals with complex legal issues including trusts and jurisdictional disputes. Many of his cases have an international element. He specialises in complex divorce and children’s work, and is also a senior mediator and trained collaborative lawyer.
David trained and qualified at Schillings, where he spent 15 years acting on behalf of high net worth individuals in the public eye. He not only has a wealth of experience in Family law but also in the law of privacy and has acted in many reported cases, including in the leading case on client privacy in the family court.
David is recognised in Chambers & Partners HNW Guide (2022) as “a superstar in the family law world; incredibly bright and excellent with clients'“.
"He is extremely intelligent and he has an excellent understanding of the law. He is very talented, he's very thorough and very into the detail. He knows absolutely everything and is very cerebral" Chambers & Partners UK 2021.
+44 203 859 3525
david.greer@katzllp.com
Emily Kapoor
Emily Kapoor is a founding Partner of Katz Partners.
Emily has extensive experience across the whole spectrum of Family law issues with a particular focus on divorce and very high value financial claims. She is a highly regarded litigator who has been involved in a number of very significant and high profile cases involving trusts, inherited wealth, offshore assets and family businesses. She also advises on all areas of private children law, including applications for injunctive relief and applications to re-locate internationally.
Emily trained and qualified at Withers, where she spent over 10 years in its Divorce and Family department before joining Schillings in 2016 to work with Davina Katz.
Emily is recognised in Chambers & Partners HNW Guide (2023) as “really having the knowledge, experience and ability to put forward excellent legal strategies. Emily is able to navigate extremely complicated financial structures, and her foresight and ability to guide the process towards a fair outcome is unmatched."
“An excellent tactician - she is so methodical. She is very analytical and attentive to detail“.
Chambers & Partners UK Guide (2022)
“Absolutely cracking - she adopts an intelligent and commercial approach looking for solutions. She fights her client's corner hard whilst trying to achieve a negotiated outcome”
Chambers & Partners UK Guide (2021)
+44 203 859 3525
emily.kapoor@katzllp.com
ASSOCIATES
Miranda Nairn
Miranda is a Senior Associate at Katz Partners.
She specialises in the financial consequences of relationship breakdown and her work is often international in focus, involving trusts, corporate structures and jurisdiction issues. Miranda is experienced in dealing with disclosure issues, obtaining disclosure orders against third parties in offshore jurisdictions and joining third parties to financial remedy proceedings. She regularly advises clients on private children matters, child relocation and leave to remove applications as well as contact and residence applications.
Miranda trained and qualified in the Family department at Forsters before joining Schillings in 2017 to work with Davina Katz.
She has worked at Katz Partners since it was established.
+44 203 859 3525
miranda.nairn@katzllp.com
Hannah Wise
Hannah is an Associate at Katz Partners.
She advises on the full range of family law matters, including divorce and separation, financial claims, pre and post nuptial agreements and children issues. She has experience advising a broad spectrum of clients on high value and complex financial disputes. Many of her cases involve an international element.
Hannah trained and qualified at Withers and joined Katz Partners in 2020.
+44 203 859 3552
hannah.wise@katzllp.com
Solicitors
Octavia Morgan
Octavia is a Solicitor at Katz Partners.
She advises high net worth clients on all aspects of private family law, including nuptial agreements, divorce, high-value financial disputes, cohabitation and children matters.
Octavia has particular experience in dealing with cases that involve domestic abuse and complex mental health considerations.
She is a member of Resolution.
Octavia trained at Charles Russell Speechlys and joined Katz Partners in 2023.
+44 7827 974202
octavia.morgan@katzllp.com
Georgina is a Solicitor at Katz Partners.
She advises on all aspects of private family law, including divorce, pre- and post-nuptial agreements, high-value financial claims and children matters.
Georgina has particular experience of dealing with cases where the opposing party has breached their obligations, leading to the pursuit of contempt proceedings.
She also has experience of children matters involving allegations of abuse and parental alienation.
Georgina is a member of Resolution.
Georgina trained at Stewarts and joined Katz Partners in 2023.
+44 203 859 3525
Georgina.hayward@katzllp.com
REPORTED CASES
We operate at the forefront of Family law and our dedication to pushing the boundaries for the benefit of our clients draws us apart from our competitors. We have been involved in a number of ground-breaking cases, some of which have established the current law.
2022
A, B and C (Children: Nesting arrangement) [2022] EWCA Civ 68
2021
E v L [2021] EWFC 60 (Fam)
2020
WX v HX (Treatment of Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property) [2021] EWHC 241 (Fam)
2019
Thum v Thum EWFC 25
2018
Thum v Thum EWCA CIV 624
2016
Thum v Thum EWHC 2634 (Fam)
S v J and Others EWHC 559 (Fam)
2015
D v D EWHC 1393 (Fam)
2014
Abuchian v Khojah EWHC 3411 (Fam)
2013
Vince v Wyatt EWCA Civ 495
2012
BP v KP v NI EWHC 2995 (Fam)
2011
R v F (Schedule One: Child Maintenance:
Mother’s Costs of Contact Proceedings) 2 FLR 991
2010
DFT v TFD EWHC 2335
2009
ASG v GSA EWCA Civ 1574
Re X (A Child) (Residence and Contact:
Rights of Media Attendance) EMLR 26
2008
Mahon v Mahon EWCA Civ 901