Osbornes‘ family team handles divorce and financial matters involving trusts, locating assets within companies, and resolving multijurisdictional issues. The firm is adept at pre- and post-nuptial agreements and also has a niche confiscation practice. Head of team Mark Freedman represents a wide range of individuals, including media figures, entrepreneurs, and CEOs in their financial remedy matters, and Lisa Pepper advises on cross-border cases involving clients and assets in Switzerland, France, and Antigua. Yael Selig, who leads the French Desk, is dual-qualified in England and Gibraltar and handles international nuptial and cohabitation agreements. The team also offers extensive language capabilities and a strong mediation and collaborative focus. Melissa Arnold recently joined the firm from Bindmans LLP.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Osbornes have a first-class family law team providing an excellent service for their loyal clients.’
- ‘Osbornes are a London based firm but their client list goes far and wide. They are a full-service team dealing with both children and money. Great firm with a brilliant reputation.’
- ‘A really dynamic and knowledgeable firm with high quality individuals from top to bottom. They care about their casework, and they do a full spectrum of family work, handling complex finance matters and also difficult children work.’
- ‘Osbornes is an under-the-radar jewel. They have very good lawyers who are tenacious and highly effective.’
- ‘Mark Freedman is an exceptional lawyer. He is persuasive and commands respect from his peers. He is not afraid to go into battle for clients and is highly effective. He is very easy to recommend to clients, as he is responsive and kind Yael Selig is extremely good - she is highly responsive and personable and able to engender confidence in her clients and contemporaries alike. She is commercial and charming and again very effective as a consequence.’
- 'Lisa Pepper is marvellous. She is great with clients and always takes a commercial view. That means practical, realistic advice from the outset.''Joanne Wescott drives the team with passion and is an inspirational leader.'
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Practice head
Mark Freedman; Joanne Wescott
Other key lawyers
Yael Selig; Lisa Pepper; Harriet McMorrin; Andrew Watson; Melissa Arnold