Clyde & Co

Family Law

• Colin is a partner and practices in all aspects of children law and family formation, specialising in international and domestic surrogacy, assisted reproduction and same-sex families.
• He is recognised as one of the UK’s “go-to” specialist surrogacy lawyers and is favourably ranked by all leading legal directories, including Chambers and Partners, the Legal 500 and Spear’s 500. He has an excellent relationship with numerous fertility clinics around the world.
• His fertility and family formation practice includes advising on parentage issues following assisted reproduction and surrogacy, parental orders, adoption, co-parenting arrangements, posthumous conception and the use of embryos following divorce/separation.
• He also practices in all areas of children law, with many of his cases having either an international, LGBT+ or human rights/discrimination element. He advises on child arrangements disputes, international and domestic child relocations, international child abduction, recognition or enforcement of overseas court orders and jurisdictional issues.
• Colin is a qualified Solicitor Advocate (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings) and as such has rights of audience before all levels of Civil and Family Courts in England & Wales, including the High Court. He conducts much of my own advocacy.
• He has experience of appeals, including in the Court of Appeal, UK Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights. 

BLMJoined BLM as a partner inJanuary 2022

Dawson Cornwell

Partner: June 2019 – Dec 2021

Senior Associate Sol: Aug 2017 – June 2019

Associate Sol: July 2016 – July 2017

Assistant Sol: July 2011 – July 2016

Trainee Sept 2009 – June 2011

Assisted Reproductive Technology Fellow of the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproductive Technology Attorneys. Member of the Executive Council of the American Bar Association Section of Family Law Assisted Reproductive Technology Committee where I sit as an international representative. Founding member of the UK LGBT Family Law Institute.

First Class Honours