Rachel Lemon

Rachel advises high-net-worth clients, including investment bankers, professionals, and high-profile individuals, on financial disputes, often involving complex assets including business assets and offshore trusts.

• Acted for a wife in an international case where there were assets worth over £21m spread across three jurisdictions and where the husband had significant private equity interests.
• Acted for a wife where there were high value pension assets held in two offshore trusts.
• Instructed by a wealthy soon-to-be wife in relation to a pre-nuptial agreement. The financial strength was on the wife’s family’s side of circa £40m.
• Acted for a husband who was an investment banker where the assets were of significant value, he earned a high income and there were complex business structures to consider.
• Acted for a husband with business interests worth in excess of £3m.
• Acted for a wife in heavily contested proceedings covering both financial and children arrangements, enforcement and on appeal.
• Acted for a well-known and high-profile person in the media and taking steps to ensure no information was leaked to the press.
• Acted for a number of clients from within the medical and legal professions.

Rachel represents parents in complex and sensitive children cases, including jurisdiction disputes, mental health and addiction issues, and allegations of abuse, often in high-conflict proceedings.

• Acted for a father in heavily contested children proceedings where the wife had mental health difficulties.
• Successfully represented a father in a case where the mother had significant alcohol and drug addiction issues.
• Successfully represented a mother with regard to a heavily contested application for leave to remove a child from the jurisdiction in the High Court.
• Represented a mother where allegations of physical abuse were made.
• Acted for a mother in children proceedings where she was the victim of abuse and faced long standing allegations of substance abuse which were disputed.

Rachel advises on fertility, surrogacy, and donor arrangements, guiding individuals, couples, and clinics on legal implications, consent, and parentage in both domestic and international contexts.

• Advised a fertility clinic on their patient information documents, internal consent forms and operating procedures relating to surrogacy patients.
• Advised a single woman as to using a known donor versus unknown donor and negotiated and drafted a pre-conception agreement.
• Acting for a same sex male couple who had an international arrangement with a surrogate to obtain a parental order in the High Court.
• Advised same-sex couples as to implications of fertility treatment and use of donor sperm including on the impact of conception at a clinic abroad.

Rachel has a well-established mediation practice and holds accredited status with the Family Mediation Council. She specialises in mediating high-conflict and complex financial and children cases and offers various models of mediation (including hybrid and shuttle). She sees children and young people within her mediation practice.

• Rachel successfully mediates high-conflict cases involving finances and children, including international assets, complex emotional dynamics. She helps those in mediation with her to reach tailored and constructive agreements.
• Mediating a high conflict dispute using the hybrid mediation model involving complex finances including trusts and investments.
• Mediating where the husband had private equity interests.
• Mediated to a successful conclusion both complex financial and children arrangements. The husband and wife had considerable assets and special care was required to meet some specific needs of the wife.
• Mediated to a successful conclusion both financial and children arrangements for an unmarried couple who had a substantial property portfolio.
• Supported discussions between the parents of a child whose parental alliance had broken down. Successfully re-established the lines of communication and worked with the couple to address concerns about the introduction of new partners to the child.
• Mediated to a successful conclusion a high-conflict case regarding arrangements for the children. The parents’ relationship had deteriorated considerably over a period of time and they were not talking at all when we first met.
• Mediated to a successful conclusion both financial and children arrangements where the husband and wife were at different stages of acceptance that the marriage had come to an end.
• Mediated for a couple who were going through financial remedy proceedings. Financial arrangements included consideration of assets held outside of the jurisdiction.

Recognised by The Legal 500 for Family: Mediation 2026

Recognised by The Legal 500 for Family: Children 2026

Recognised by The Legal 500 for Family 2022–2025