Jane Cowley > Geldards LLP > Derby, England > Lawyer Profile
Geldards LLP Offices
Cubo
1 Pride Place
Pride Park
DE24 8QR
England
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Jane Cowley
Work Department
Family
Position
Jane is an experienced Family Lawyer and Collaborative Practitioner. She advises clients on all aspects of relationship and family matters, focusing on complex financial and company issues involving owner managed businesses, company re-structuring, and national and international assets.
Jane regularly supports high net worth individuals with complex asset structures, many involving private and public limited companies, and focusing on shareholding and taxation issues within a family context. She deals with cases with substantial assets and offshore structures and has acted for many professionals amongst the business community. Jane is Director and former Chair of Leicestershire Business Voice, a member of the De Montfort University Legal Advisory Board and is retained as a Legal Advisor for ITV Studios, Emmerdale programme. She is often called upon to advise the media in relation to family law matters.
Lawyer Rankings
East Midlands > Private client > Family
(Leading partners)Geldards LLP‘s broad family law offering spans mediation, private FDRs and neutral evaluations, family arbitration and collaborative law, among many others, and has been praised as ‘a force of a team’ who are ‘thorough, knowledgeable and approachable’. Experienced specialist family practitioner Fiona Apthorpe heads the team. Jane Cowley is notable for her strong matrimonial finance practice which sees her routinely act on matters with complex tax, pensions and trust issues. Claire Dean chiefly lends her expertise to high net worth financial remedy cases and is also highly regarded for her experience on complex and sensitive children cases. Natalie Haydon-Yeung represents HNWIs on financial matters involving property portfolios, business assets, trust assets and pensions, as well as undertaking complex children cases.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Nottingham and Derby
- Real estate > Commercial property: Nottingham and Derby
- Private client > Family
- Public sector > Public sector
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Nottingham and Derby
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Employment > Employment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms