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VIEW ALLLEGAL 500 2025Nina Lake is beyond brilliant in terms of her intellect and how she deals with clients. Whether the case involves complex finances or vast wealth, it pays to have Nina on your side.'
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Nina is a highly regarded family law specialist, known for her outstanding expertise in resolving complex matrimonial and child-related disputes. She provides bespoke advice on a wide range of matters, including divorce, financial settlements, child custody arrangements, and sensitive family issues such as domestic abuse.
Nina is particularly adept at crafting pre- and post-nuptial agreements tailored to safeguard wealth and future-proof her clients’ interests, as well as advising on the legal intricacies of cohabitation.
Nina’s practice is focused on high-net-worth individuals, often involving substantial and intricate financial portfolios with multi-jurisdictional dimensions. Her clients include professionals at the top of their fields, such as lawyers, doctors, and senior executives, alongside entrepreneurs, business leaders, and inheritors of significant generational wealth. She is frequently sought after by high-profile celebrities and media personalities, offering discreet and strategic representation to protect their financial and personal interests.
With an empathetic and pragmatic approach, Nina supports her clients through what is often one of the most emotionally challenging periods of their lives. She is praised for her ability to navigate complex negotiations with sensitivity while remaining focused on achieving the best possible outcomes. Nina combines technical excellence with strategic foresight, ensuring her clients feel empowered and secure at every stage of the process.
Nina’s reputation for handling high-stakes cases with diligence and care has earned her the trust of clients both in the UK and internationally, making her a standout figure in the field of family law.
- Advising a client in an UHNW case in which it was thought that assets totalled over £200m and spanned across the globe.
- Advising the ex-wife of a singer/songwriter to consider matrimonial claims against him some 30 years after divorce due to husband's breach of earlier separation agreement.
- Managing financial negotiations involving complex international tax issues including jurisdictions such as the US, Japan and Brazil.
- Representing an Emirati father in proceedings to return his son to Dubai from England following mother removing the child from Dubai and refusing to return him without his consent.
- Advising on a pre-nuptial agreement where the client had made his extensive wealth in crypto currency.
- Advising on a post-nuptial agreement where the client had serious health conditions which prevented her from working, but had extensive family wealth and husband had very little wealth of his own but was the main carer for the wife.
- Listed as Key Lawyer, Private client: Family, Legal 500 2023
- Listed as Recommended Lawyer, Spear's 500 Family Law Index 2022
- Nina won Family Law Partner of the Year at the 2020 Citywealth Future Leaders Awards.
Nina used to compete for the GB bobsleigh team as a driver. She continues to enjoy to keep fit and in doing so has run marathons in both Vienna and Milan.