Elizabeth Simos

Elizabeth handles complex cases frequently involving high-value assets, corporate structures, trusts, and novel points of law.

• Represented a wife in a long marriage involving the husband’s dynastic family wealth, agricultural assets, and landed estates, securing urgent non-molestation and occupation orders in parallel with financial remedy proceedings.
• Acted for a senior executive husband in a high-conflict multi-million-pound divorce, navigating complex bonus structures, partnership capital, and corporate equity to protect commercial interests and achieve a fair asset division.
• Represented a young City professional following the breakdown of a short marriage, contesting a financial remedy application to protect distinct pre-marital capital, bonuses, and individual career earnings, achieving a clean break.
• Represented a wife who sustained life-altering injuries following a catastrophic accident during a short marriage, navigating complex financial remedy proceedings to secure permanent housing, income, and lifelong care provisions despite the brevity of the marriage.
• Acted for a vulnerable spouse served with divorce papers while hospitalised for acute mental health challenges, managing immediate procedural emergencies to secure robust legal and financial protections.
• Represented a business founder in highly contested proceedings involving multi-million-pound corporate entities across multiple jurisdictions, preserving non-matrimonial assets and ongoing commercial viability.
• Acted for a wife who contributed most of the capital and income to a short, childless marriage, securing a tailored outcome that preserved her financial contributions.
• Represented an unmarried mother in a complex Schedule 1 claim against a high-profile father to secure substantial housing, lump-sum orders, and top-up child maintenance.
• Advised an unmarried partner in TOLATA proceedings, securing a beneficial interest in property and resolving a complex cohabitation dispute.

Elizabeth advises on private children law, including living arrangements, relocation, and international disputes.

• Represented the mother of a child with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), navigating complex disputes to secure specialised care regimes, school placements, and long-term co-parenting frameworks tailored to the child’s medical and developmental needs.
• Represented a parent in sensitive children proceedings involving serious allegations of domestic abuse, navigating fact-finding hearings and the implementation of robust safeguarding measures.
• Represented a parent in a high-conflict children dispute involving complex cultural and religious considerations, advising on specific issue orders relating to education, upbringing, and international travel.
• Represented a mother in fully contested international relocation proceedings, obtaining permission from the court to relocate overseas with her children.
• Acted for a father opposing a cross-border relocation application, resulting in an order for the child to remain living permanently with him in England.

Elizabeth regularly represents international clients in divorce, financial remedies, and children law involving multi-jurisdictional elements and cross-border disputes.

• Represented a wife in complex cross-border divorce proceedings, securing jurisdiction in the English court following heavily contested parallel proceedings in France.
• Represented a client in a forum dispute involving complex issues of habitual residence and domicile between England and Italy, establishing England as the most appropriate jurisdiction.
• Acted for a wife in a complex procedural dispute concerning the validity and legal recognition of an overseas marriage in Pakistan under English law.
• Represented multiple international clients facing multi-jurisdictional litigation, coordinating parallel strategies with trusted foreign counsel to manage competing claims between England and other financial centres.
• Acted for an international client base with personal and asset connections to jurisdictions including Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Dubai, India, China, and South Africa.
• Regularly acted for clients within the Hellenic and Cypriot communities on cross-border family law matters drawing on her bilingual expertise, including the mutual enforcement of international court orders.

Elizabeth manages all aspects of high-net-worth family breakdowns, including advisory work and court interventions.

• Represented multiple high-net-worth and high-profile individuals and families, ensuring discretion and careful management of reputational risk.
• Acted in high-net-worth divorce and financial remedy proceedings involving multi-million-pound international asset bases, offshore trusts, corporate structures, and family office arrangements.
• Advised professionals, entrepreneurs, and landowners on pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements dealing with family capital, dynastic wealth, inherited assets, and future career earnings.
• Advised business owners, corporate executives, and their spouses on asset division, handling both wealth preservation strategies for business founders and securing an equitable share for non-owning spouses.
• Represented clients in urgent, procedurally complex applications and emergency court interventions both to safeguard individuals and prevent the dissipation of assets.

Member of Resolution

Elizabeth writes on a variety of legal matters, and her articles have featured in the FT Adviser, Financial Times, Family Law Journal, LexisNexis, and American Bar Association publications, amongst others.

Winner of The Lawyer Monthly Magazine Women in Law Awards 2019

Winner of the LexisNexis ‘Young Solicitor of the Year Award’ 2018

Recipient of the distinguished Clive Schmitthoff International Award (New York, United States) for legal writing.

Recipient of the International Vis Moot Honourable Mention for Individual Advocacy (Vienna, Austria).

Elizabeth is also active in the charity sector, having previously served as President, Trustee and Chair of the Board of Trustees, and is currently serving as a trustee of a children’s education charity.