Thomson Reuters names eight Keystone Law partners in its Stand-out Lawyers Guide 2026
Andrea James, Andrew Darwin & Anna McKibbin
The Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2025 has recognised 17 Keystone lawyers as expert advisers to high-net-worth individuals. The firm was also ranked in 5 practice areas, retaining its positions in Private Wealth Law and Real Estate: High Value: Residential, while earning new rankings in Private Wealth Law in London, Private Wealth Disputes in the South, and Family/Matrimonial Finance: High Net Worth for the first time.
The leading annual guide ranks the best lawyers and law firms for international private wealth from more than 50 countries around the world. The rankings are based on client feedback and in-depth analysis of the market.
The Keystone lawyers ranked in the 2025 guide are:
Defamation/Reputation Management
Gerard is a litigator who represents high-profile and high-net-worth individuals in media-related disputes and privacy, defamation, and harassment actions. He advises clients on a range of issues from blackmail to music, film and sports agreements, and music licensing deals.
Family/Matrimonial Finance: High Net Worth
Susan represents clients in divorce proceedings where there are substantial assets and cross-border disputes. She has particular expertise and interest in complex cases involving children, such as international relocation and provision for children with complex medical needs from married and unmarried families.
Richard advises domestic and international clients on every aspect of family law including complex financial and business cases, private children issues, cohabitant disputes, and cases involving offshore trusts and asset tracing.
Emma is a specialist family and matrimonial lawyer with over 30 years’ experience advising on all family matters, including complex and financial disputes, children matters, and prenuptial agreements.
Family/Matrimonial: Mediators
Emma Harte
Emma is a Resolution-accredited mediator, a mediation consultant (PPC), a trained collaborative lawyer, and past Chair of Resolution’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee.
Immigration: High Net Worth Individuals
Sharmila focuses on UK-inward immigration law and British nationality and has been lawyer to prominent international families, Middle Eastern royalty, celebrities, and global companies. She has also worked closely with senior officials at the Home Office on many sensitive cases.
Private Wealth Disputes
Ashton is a contentious trust and probate specialist, dealing with trust and estate disputes. His practice covers challenges to the validity of wills, maladministration of trusts and estates, 1975 Inheritance Act claims, financial abuse of the elderly and the vulnerable by attorneys and deputies, misappropriation of estate and trust assets, and applications for removal of trustees and executors.
Lloyd specialises in probate and estate disputes. His practice covers mediating and resolving contentious trust, estate and probate disputes, advising on professional negligence claims against executors and trustees, and advising on Court of Protection disputes across a broad range of issues.
Private Wealth Law
Barry is a private client lawyer with over 30 years’ experience. His practice focuses on advising high-net-worth individuals and their families on tax planning, wills and trusts.
Alex is a private client solicitor who specialises in advising high- and ultra-high-net-worth domiciled and non-domiciled individuals in relation to all aspects of their personal affairs, including onshore and offshore tax planning, wills, trusts, asset protection, and estate planning.
Luke advises high-net-worth individuals, their families, their companies and trustees on a wide range of affairs including trusts, wills, lasting powers of attorney, charities, family offices, asset protection, estate planning, and trust structuring.
Camilla Bishop – Brighton and surrounds
Camilla advises wealthy clients on estate planning, wills, trusts and tax matters, with a specialism in Inheritance Tax. She is also experienced in estate administration and probate, advising on reliefs and exemptions (including Business Relief and Agricultural Relief) and post-death planning using deeds of variation.
Will Norton – Brighton and surrounds
Will advises on a wide range of matters including wills, powers of attorney, trusts, and deeds of variation. He is particularly experienced in probate and estate administration, and prior to becoming a lawyer he worked in a number of different roles for the probate service.
Robert Knight – Crawley and surrounds
Robert is an experienced lawyer who provides advice to individuals, families, trustees, executors and beneficiaries on issues relating to succession, trusts, and UK personal tax.
Real Estate: High Value Residential
Ian is a private property solicitor with over 30 years’ experience handling prime and super-prime London residential property transactions.
Hugh specialises in acting for private clients, landed estates, and institutional clients on property matters, guiding them through the process of both buying and selling country houses, London property, sporting estates, farms, and agricultural land.
Sakhjit is a private property solicitor with over 20 years’ experience dealing with prime and super-prime London residential property transactions.
Jonathan is a highly experienced marine and superyacht law specialist. He advises banks and private clients in the yacht and superyacht industry, as well as marine businesses, crew and other leisure marine operators such as yacht management companies and marina owners.
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