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Claire O’Flinn

Partner

England & Wales

020 3319 3700

claire.oflinn@keystonelaw.co.uk

“Claire has the gift for getting to the heart of a dispute, no matter how complex, and finding the right solution. She is astute, determined and never intimidated by the opposition. Clients love her. Claire has the rare skill and experience to manage cases involving money and children with equal dexterity. She has compassion and empathy without losing her steely focus. Claire is calm in any storm and carries her clients through the tempestuous journey of relationship breakdown. ”

- Leading Family KC

Claire is a family solicitor with over 20 years’ experience resolving complex financial and children issues.

She regularly handles reputationally sensitive matters for high-profile clients, often with an international element, ensuring that her clients  remain out of the media spotlight. Her practice spans all areas of family law and she  specialises in reaching favourable financial solutions for high-net-worth individuals. As well as her financial practice, Claire also acts for parents in disputes concerning their children,  frequently reaching successful solutions without making court applications. She is an expert in advising on the impacts of coercive and controlling behaviour within family relationships.

Claire is committed to helping couples part with dignity and minimise the impact on the family.  As a trained collaborative lawyer and mediator, she regularly contributes  to family law journals, the national press and industry websites. Claire formed and chaired Young Resolution (Surrey) and is a committed member of Resolution – a community of family justice professionals  supporting families and individuals to resolve issues.

 

Expertise

Claire advises high-net-worth and high-profile clients on all aspects of family law, including divorce, financial settlements, child arrangements, injunctions and confidentiality issues, often involving complex international and reputational considerations.

Experience

  • Acted for members of the English, Spanish and Jordanian royal families.
  • Advised and represented a leading female member of the Conservative Party, reaching a generous settlement in her favour the day before a Final Hearing and thus avoiding court.
  • Acted for a highly successful banker wife in securing the transfer of the family home to her from her unmarried partner in the highly unusual order of preventing the father contact with their daughter following a domestic abuse relationship.
  • Acted for a top London restaurateur husband in a highly acrimonious divorce, achieving a favourable settlement for him and protecting his business.
  • Acted for a wife and mother following a marriage of extreme domestic abuse to include injunctive relief, divorce, financial settlement and protection of the children.
  • Advised and represented a highly acclaimed music DJ husband in his divorce and financial settlement, leaving his business untouched.
  • Secured a settlement for a husband from a Premier League football club regarding asset protection, divorce and financial settlement.
  • Acted for a wife following a long marriage to a former MI5 employee, allowing her to buy a mortgage-free home.
  • Advised and represented clients from the media, banking, medical, legal and sporting professions, all with the utmost of confidentiality to ensure that information does not leak to the press.

Claire advises farming families, landowners and rural business owners on divorce and financial settlements involving agricultural assets, family land, and business interests, ensuring fair division while protecting generational and commercial value.

Experience

  • Advised on an agricultural land sale in relation to land attached to the family home.
  • Advised on the divorce of a vineyard owner.
  • Longstanding relationship with a leading UK tractor dealership, advising on the financial settlement of the divorce and removing the spouse from the company.
  • Advised on the divorce and financial settlement of the owner of a fishing farm.

Claire advises ultra-high-net-worth Middle Eastern clients and royal families on pre- and post-nuptial agreements, asset protection, jurisdictional issues under UK and Sharia law, and confidentiality within complex cross-border family matters.

Experience

  • Worked closely with leading Jordanian and UK accountants to protect UHNW clients’ assets through pre- and post-nuptial agreements with particular attention to the protection of car, jewellery and art collections.
  • Advised on the UK position in tandem with Sharia Law and thereafter prepared a pre-nuptial agreement for a UHNW client with assets of over £500 million. Expert advice was required upon the specifics of jurisdiction and the advantages and detriment to the client of undertaking marriage ceremonies in respective countries.
  • Ongoing counsel, advice and representation of a high-profile UHNW Middle Eastern family across three generations concerning all aspects of family law.
  • Successfully negotiated an advantageous pre-nuptial agreement for a member of a Middle Eastern royal family to protect assets when there was a considerable imbalance of wealth between the marrying parties.
  • Provided reputation management advice to a high-profile Middle Eastern national within the structure of divorce to include confidentiality in the media and NDA provisions.
  • Advised and prepared a post-nuptial agreement for a leading Middle Eastern financier with substantial international assets.

Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.

Recognition

Recognised by The Legal 500 for Family: Children & Family 2021 -2026

Recognised by The Legal 500 for Family: Divorce and Financial Remedy 2026

Top Recommended in Spear’s Family Law Index 2024 – 2025

Acknowledged by Chambers 2025 for many years of experience as a family lawyer and as a qualified mediator, representing clients in highly complex Children Act proceedings, including cases involving criminal allegations and coercive control

Winner – Worldwide Financial Advisor Awards Magazine – Leading Professionals Worldwide 2023 (Divorce – UK)

Recognised in Spear’s 500 as a Recommended Family Lawyer 2020 – 2022

Winner – Corporate LiveWire Global Awards 2019 (Divorce – UK)

Featured in Surrey Life (2018) as a “leading lady of business”

Winner – Lawyer Monthly Women in Law Awards 2018 for Family Law (UK)

Member of Resolution

Co-founder of Surrey Young Resolution

“Claire is a super person to deal with – she is always on the ball and is absolutely excellent with clients, in whom she instils the greatest confidence. She is prepared to come out fighting where this is in the client's interests.”

Chambers UK 2024

Claire qualified as a solicitor in 2004. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2013, she worked at the following firms:

  • Manches
  • Mundays