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VIEW ALLLEGAL 500 2025Lois Langton is a stand out Partner and fantastic Head of the Family Team. Lois is regularly delivering the highest calibre of work, taking the lead on numerous challenging cases and seeing them through to great success. You can't get much better than Lois when it comes to Family Law!
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Lois Langton is the Head of Family Law at Howard Kennedy. Acting across the full breadth of family law work, Lois offers a discreet and tailor-made approach that is solution-focused, supported by an exceptional group of talented lawyers whom she leads from the front. Unique in her style, she inspires 'utter confidence'.
Lois' clients are diverse, with many from the sports, entertainment and the arts industries where her experience and knowledge are described as 'second to none'. Her clients also include entrepreneurs and successful business people.
Lois has a particular expertise in dealing with complex financial remedy work involving multi-million pound matrimonial settlements. Her work regularly involves tax, trust, off-shore, and corporate structures, with high-end divorce and financial remedy cases and pre- and post-nuptial agreements being the work Lois most frequently undertakes. She also advises on cohabitation, separation, and children matters (including adoption and surrogacy).
Lois jointly heads the firm's Sport sector group and the family team is also an integral part of the firm's Private Wealth group, meaning clients benefit from expertise across a wide range of practice areas.
Lois is a member of Resolution, Women In Football, the China Britain Business Council, and the 48 Group.
- Acting on a case involving off-shore and complex trust structures.
- Acting on a case where there are Imerman issues arising from the removal of confidential information and advising as to related breach of confidence proceedings.
- Acting on a case concerning the treatment of inherited property.
- Advising on a case where one party brought committal proceedings against the other party for non-payment of maintenance.
- Advising a commissioning couple in an international surrogacy.
- Advising on various pre- and post-nuptial agreements.
- UL v BK – successfully acted for the husband in the leading authority on freezing injunctions and other without notice applications.
- Arbili v Arbili – successfully acted for the wife in a Court of Appeal decision on inherited property and Imerman.
- DM and LK – acting on a surrogacy (enduring relationships and consent) dispute.
- Simonon v Patricia Ronane Simonon – successfully acted for the former husband concerning the treatment of his royalties pursuant to the financial settlement on divorce.
- Listed as Leading Partner, Private Client: Family, Legal 500 2025
- "She is a leader in the family law space and is reliable, diligent and well-respected by her clients." Chambers UK 2025
- "Lois is an excellent lawyer." Chambers UK 2025
- "Lois is highly technical, a perfectionist with a bigger-picture, strategic focus who manages client expectations and money brilliantly." Chambers UK 2025
- Ranked Band 3, Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth (London Firms), Chambers UK 2025
- "Lois Langton is one of the finest family solicitors in the City and has a reputation that goes before her." Legal 500 UK 2024
- "She is a lawyer of the highest calibre with judgment to match. She has a five star practice which is a tribute to her formidable litigation skills." Legal 500 UK 2024
- "Lois Langton is an exceptional lawyer. She is a great leader of an excellent team. She gives her clients the best possible advice. I would always recommend her to all our people." Legal 500 UK 2024
- "This firm are uniquely well-placed to advise clients in the media, sports, and entertainment industries, where their experience is second-to-none. A huge array of personality within the department explains why the clients are typically quite creative. Headed by Lois Langton, they are all stellar." Legal 500 UK 2024
- Ranked Band 3, Family/Matrimonial: Ultra High Net Worth, Chambers UK 2024
- "There are few family lawyers with her depth and breadth of experience and knowledge, and Lois's commercial awareness is second to none." Chambers UK 2024
- "Lois is very tactical and absolutely brilliant with clients. She has a calming influence, always pragmatic and never dramatic. She inspires utter confidence, as she is incredibly knowledgeable and is always on hand to deliver advice promptly." Chambers UK 2024
- Ranked Band 3, Family/Matrimonial: Ultra High Net Worth, Chambers HNW 2023
- "Lois is very tactical and absolutely brilliant with clients. She has a calming influence, always pragmatic and never dramatic." Chambers HNW 2023
- "She inspires utter confidence, as she is incredibly knowledgeable and is always on hand to deliver advice promptly." Chambers HNW 2023
- "There are few family lawyers with her depth and breadth of experience and knowledge, and Lois's commercial awareness is second to none." Chambers HNW 2023
- Ranked, Family/Matrimonial: Ultra High Net Worth, Chambers UK 2023
- "She is frighteningly smart, incredibly dedicated and understandably adored by her clients." Chambers UK 2023
- "As a tactician I think she's brilliant. She is also calm, pragmatic and unflappable. She inspires utter confidence." Chambers UK 2023
- Listed as Key Lawyer, Private client: Family, Legal 500 2023
- "A tour de force. Unflappable, the one you want in your corner." Legal 500 2023
- "Lois Langton is simply brilliant at communicating with her clients and always provides clear advice." Legal 500 2023
- "She has built a very competent and conscientious team who really work well together. They have excellent work and provide a fabulous service to clients." Legal 500 2023
- Listed as Key Lawyer, TMT (technology, media and telecoms): Sport, Legal 500 2023
- "Lois Langton is not only a fabulous lawyer but also a great team leader. She has earned a brilliant reputation as a tenacious litigator and has become the go to family lawyer for footballers and football agents. She is always able to identify the issues in the case and to be able to communicate clearly and concisely the next steps to the client." Legal 500 2023
- Ranked, Family/Matrimonial: Ultra High Net Worth, Chambers HNW 2022
- "She is amazing with clients and has an incredible bedside manner. She is one of the few family lawyers in the UHNW/HNW space that genuinely cares about her clients' outcomes, costs and wellbeing. She always puts her clients' best interests first and will work night and day to support them."
- "Lois Langton is a big name in family law and deservedly so. She is very tactical and absolutely brilliant with clients." Chambers HNW 2022
- Listed as Top Recommended Lawyer, Spear's 500 Family Law Index 2022
- Listed as Key Lawyer, Private Client: Family, Legal 500 2022
- "Lois is probably one of the most approachable family law partners we work with. She always creates time for us when required and adds humour to meetings where appropriate. She’s honest, responsive, helpful and supportive of our business." Legal 500 2022
- "Lois – a brilliant lawyer with excellent client care skills" Legal 500 2022
- Lois Langton is a force of nature. She attracts really interesting work particularly in the sporting sector and is extremely hardworking. She wins the loyalty of her clients and it is this that has enabled her to build such a fabulous practice. She really is a leader in the field." Legal 500 2022
- Ranked, Family/Matrimonial, Chambers UK 2022
- "Lois Langton is a wonderful family lawyer. Her tenacity when dealing with contentious matters is a great strength and she brings amazing strategy to all the cases she works on." Chambers UK 2022
Lois’ principal interests are football and ballet. An Arsenal season-ticket holder (home and away), Lois is also Chair of the Arsenal Independent Supporters’ Association.
