Spear’s Family Law Index 2026 recognises 13 Keystone lawyers
Ruth Abrams, Roopa Ahluwalia & Susan Apthorp
The Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2026 has recognised 19 Keystone lawyers as expert advisers to high-net-worth individuals. The firm was also ranked in five practice areas, retaining its positions in: Real Estate: High Value Residential: London; Family/Matrimonial Finance: High Net Worth; Private Wealth Law: London; Private Wealth Law: Brighton and surrounds; and Private Wealth Disputes: The South.
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 2026 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
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.
Teresa is a family law specialist advising on all aspects of family law, including financial and child matters. Her work often includes issues of international as well as domestic law. She advises on pre-nuptial, post-nuptial, and cohabitation agreements as protective measures.
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.
Claire is an experienced family solicitor whose practice spans all areas of family law. She has particular expertise in reaching favourable financial solutions for high-net-worth individuals and also acts for parents in disputes concerning their children. Claire is an expert in advising upon the effects and consequences of coercive and controlling behaviour within family relationships.
Hannah is an expert in family law and has experience working with a range of clients on cases relating to finance and children. She has dealt with many high-value, complex divorce cases, helping them to reach final settlement over finance and assets.
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.
Aoife is an internationally recognised aviation lawyer with expertise across private, corporate, and commercial aviation. She advises a global client base, including ultra-high-net-worth individuals, corporations, aircraft operators, financiers, lessors, manufacturers, and private owners, on all aspects of aircraft acquisition and sale, financing, and regulatory compliance.
Private Wealth Disputes: The South
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 Adamson – London
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 Boothman – London
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 Micallef Trigona – London
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.
Helen Calcutt – Bristol and surrounds
Helen has extensive experience in advising on a wide range of Private Client work. Her practice predominantly focuses on lifetime tax planning, simple and tax planning wills, lasting powers of attorney, and probate and trusts, including personal injury, other lifetime trusts and will trusts.
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
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.
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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