Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Family

Camellia  is a senior associate in the Family department.

Camellia specialises in ultra/high net worth cases and advises on the full range of matrimonial finance work including pre-nuptial agreements, Schedule 1 cases (financial provision for the benefit of a child of unmarried parents), Part III claims, jurisdictional disputes and complex financial claims upon divorce.

She also advises on all aspects of private children law including cases with complex and contentious contact arrangements with jurisdictional or harm factors in play and relocation applications.

Her practice covers co-habitation and separation agreements, Non-Molestation and Occupation Orders and her cases often involve an international element and/or complex trust structures.

Work Highlights

• Helliwell v Entwistle [2024] EWHC 740 • Helliwell v Entwistle [2024] EWHC 1298 • Standish v Standish [2024] EWCA Civ 567 • Potanin v Potanina [2024] UKSC 3 • Collardeau-Fuchs v Fuchs [2022] EWFC 6 • WX v HX & NX and LX [2021] EWHC 241 • Potanina v Potanin [2021] EWCA Civ 702 • Potanin v Potanina [2019] EWHC 2956 • M (Children) (Non-Hague Convention State) [2020] EWCA Civ 277

Awards/Rankings

Ranked - As a Recommended Lawyer in The Legal 500 UK 2024

Ranked - As an Associate to Watch in Chambers and Partners 2024 (Family/Matrimonial: High Net Worth) and 2024 (Family/Matrimonial: Ultra High Net Worth)

Ranked - As a Rising Star in the Spear's Family Lawyer Index 2024

Award - Gold  - Family Lawyer of the Year, Senior/Managing Associate - Citywealth Future Leaders 2023

Camellia trained at Slaughter and May, qualifying in September 2014. She joined Payne Hicks Beach in 2016 and was promoted to senior associate in 2018.

Durham University -  Camellia read Philosophy and Theology at Durham University and was awarded a Norton Prize for outstanding academic performance by St Cuthbert’s Society.

BPP Law School - Camellia converted to law at BPP Law School achieving Distinction in the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Legal Practice Course.