<div class=""> <div class="container"> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid gt3_vc_row_modified"> <div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12"> <div class="vc_column-inner "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> <h3>Personal Experience</h3> </div> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> Sheata is the Founder, Managing Partner and Solicitor-Advocate of Grayfords. Sheata has an expert knowledge of all areas within family law and has a successful record of representing both high net worth individuals and their spouses, often in cases with international jurisdiction issues. She specialises in complex financial assets cases and international children cases within divorce and family breakdown. Her direct, transparent, approach with her clients coupled with both the ongoing empathy and tenacity required for her clients going through life-challenging times, has gained her a reputation for achieving the best possible results in a highly cost-effective manner. Sheata has developed her in-depth experience from working across a range of reputable niche family law firms before founding Grayfords. She is passionate about delivering tailor-made, unique, cost-effective advice to each client all whilst ensuring there is absolute transparency on probable case outcome or settlement. Sheata either advocates in court herself for her clients or assigns the most relevant expertise and compatible barrister. She has worked with the most well-respected and successful barristers and can quickly identify the best barrister to achieve the required result at well negotiated fees. Sheata is also a recognised family law expert within the media and has written articles for both local and national newspapers. </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class=""> <div class="container"> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid gt3_vc_row_modified"> <div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12"> <div class="vc_column-inner "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> <h3>Education</h3> </div> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> University of Machester, College of Law, London, BPP, London </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class=""> <div class="container"> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid gt3_vc_row_modified"> <div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12"> <div class="vc_column-inner "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> <h3>Languages</h3> </div> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> Bengali and French </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class=""> <div class="container"> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid gt3_vc_row_modified"> <div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12"> <div class="vc_column-inner "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> <h3>Recommendations:</h3> </div> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> “I contacted Sheata at the worst time in my life. Within a few minutes of talking to the team, I felt better and knew I was in good hands.” </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class=""> <div class="container"> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid gt3_vc_row_modified"> <div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12"> <div class="vc_column-inner "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> <h3>Background</h3> </div> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> In 2013, I founded Grayfords, a boutique family law firm, to help clients through the most difficult times in their lives by providing sensible and compassionate advice. I provide proportionately affordable solutions to resolve your most vexing family legal problems and have recruited the best team of family law experts to empower you to make the right decisions. Today, Grayfords is a leading Legal 500 international family law practice in London with a reputation for quality representation, sensitivity and integrity. My additional background in finance and business will bring a keen understanding about the financial impact of the legal process on your family. Also, as a parent, I can empathise and help ensure that the children’s best interests are priortised during the challenging periods of their parents’ separation, divorce or disagreements <div>Sheata Karim is listed as a Leading Lawyer by <a href="https://www.wiselaw.co.uk/divorce-solicitors-london/#listing258978">Wiselaw</a>.</div> </div> <div class="gt3_spacing "></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

<div class=""> <div class="container"> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid gt3_vc_row_modified"> <div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12"> <div class="vc_column-inner "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> <h3>Personal Experience</h3> </div> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> Neil is hugely experienced in family law. He has expertise in cases involving large or complex assets and those with an international dimension or proceedings in more than one country. He is a seasoned litigator with a wealth of experience and excellent technical skills. With an eye for detail, yet able to see the overall picture he is also an advocate of resolving cases amicably, rapidly, and with as much dignity as possible, especially where children are involved. His enviable experience combined with his hard and soft skill sets makes him immensely capable of meeting client’s needs. In addition to Neil’s wealth of knowledge he is known by clients for his high degree of empathy, compassion and fastidious attention to detail which he brings to each of his cases. </div> <div class="gt3_spacing "> <div class="gt3_spacing-height gt3_spacing-height_default"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class=""> <div class="container"> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid gt3_vc_row_modified"> <div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12"> <div class="vc_column-inner "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> <h3>Education</h3> </div> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> University of Oxford, Guildford College of Law </div> <div class="gt3_spacing "> <div class="gt3_spacing-height gt3_spacing-height_default"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class=""> <div class="container"> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid gt3_vc_row_modified"> <div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12"> <div class="vc_column-inner "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> <h3>Cases</h3> </div> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> He was involved in the reported cases of Sorrell -v- Sorrell [2005] EWHC 1717 (Fam), Bentinck -v- Bentinck [2007] EWCA Civ 175 and NG -v- KR (Pre-Nuptial Contract) [2008] EWHC 1532 (Fam), for example, and has similarly been involved in some of the most complex unreported cases. </div> <div class="gt3_spacing "> <div class="gt3_spacing-height gt3_spacing-height_default"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class=""> <div class="container"> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid gt3_vc_row_modified"> <div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12"> <div class="vc_column-inner "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> <h3>Languages</h3> </div> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> French and Italian </div> <div class="gt3_spacing "> <div class="gt3_spacing-height gt3_spacing-height_default"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class=""> <div class="container"> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid gt3_vc_row_modified"> <div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12"> <div class="vc_column-inner "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> <h3>Recommendations</h3> </div> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> ‘Neil Graham is one of the brightest and most able family law solicitors currently practising. He is extremely able and provides first-rate client care. His knowledge of family law (especially financial remedy work) is breath-taking’. Legal 500 ‘A stellar international financial remedy practice. Neil Graham genuinely cares about his clients, has an amazing bedside manner, and will go the extra mile to get the best result for his client, whether through tough negotiation or litigation’. Legal 500 ‘Neil Graham is an excellent solicitor with admirable client skills and a fine appreciation of legal complexities‘. Legal 500 “A special thank you for your help in what has at times been an extremely difficult and stressful case for me. I truly appreciated your and Neil’s understanding and measured approach (backed by the ability to fight tough when needed), which was always what I was after.” </div> <div class="gt3_spacing "> <div class="gt3_spacing-height gt3_spacing-height_default"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class=""> <div class="container"> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid gt3_vc_row_modified"> <div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12"> <div class="vc_column-inner "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> <h3>Background</h3> </div> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> Neil studied at Christ Church, Oxford and Guildford College of Law, before completing his legal training at Farrer & Co. He brings decades of family law experience to Grayfords, having previously been a Director at Vardags Law, as well as having previously worked for Fiona Shackleton at Payne Hicks Beach in Lincoln’s Inn </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

<div class=""> <div class="container"> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid gt3_vc_row_modified"> <div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12"> <div class="vc_column-inner "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> <h3>Personal Experience</h3> </div> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> Tom is head of corporate and commercial law. He is a UK solicitor with a background in regulation and cross-border commerce. Tom’s practice areas include mergers and acquisitions, dispute resolution, as well as supporting new ventures especially in the areas of fintech and regulatory approval. His skills lie is his broad commercial knowledge, his ability rapidly to assimilate complex structuring and his keen awareness of commercial reality. Tom became a partner in Staploe Solicitors LLP where he has worked since returning to the UK in 2018. Before this he provided in-house counsel to a company formation and administration group based in Hong Kong as well as working in Malta as head of corporate services for a leading law firm. He also has experience working with trust companies in the Isle of Man and Gibraltar. These roles have involved him working closely with the various governmental and European bodies as well as managing a portfolio of international companies, trusts and HNWI private clients. During his career he has worked on highly sensitive and technical commercial cases together with leading UK counsel including disputes with the FCA and HMRC on regulatory peripheries as well as structuring funding deals with some of the largest home builders in the UK. </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class=""> <div class="container"> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid gt3_vc_row_modified"> <div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12"> <div class="vc_column-inner "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> <h3>Education</h3> </div> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> University of London & Anglia Ruskin. Bachelor of Laws LLB(Hons) and 1st class Masters of Legal Practice with a dissertation in the regulation of fintech. </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class=""> <div class="container"> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid gt3_vc_row_modified"> <div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12"> <div class="vc_column-inner "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> <h3>Recommendations:</h3> </div> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> “Tom and his team have the ability to understand quickly and think creatively. Tom has good legal knowledge but also understands business and how to make sure deals get done properly and safely in a practical way.” “Tom has been our lawyer since we launched our EMI in 2019 and has become an indispensable part of our team. I know he really understands our business and wants to help us succeed.” </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class=""> <div class="container"> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid gt3_vc_row_modified"> <div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12"> <div class="vc_column-inner "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="gt3_spacing "></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

<div class=""> <div class="container"> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid gt3_vc_row_modified"> <div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12"> <div class="vc_column-inner "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> <h3>Personal Experience</h3> </div> <div class="gt3_custom_text gt3_line-break-default gt3_font-size-inherit gt3_line-height-inherit gt3_color-inherit gt3_separator-disable gt3_full_width-active" data-color="#ffffff"> Alex has a wealth of experience across the full scope of Family Law matters including Financial Remedy, Child Arrangements, International Child Abduction, Contested Divorce, Pre- and Post-Nuptial Agreements, Property Disputes, Domestic Abuse, and matters involving children’s services. Alex also has extensive experience conducting advocacy at all stages of litigation and before all levels of judiciary up to and including being granted rights of audience before the High Court. Alex always strives to offer direct, transparent, and straightforward legal advice, particularly in complex or sensitive matters which require a kind and empathetic hand. He is passionate about delivering measurable outcomes for clients in the most amicable manner and with the shortest possible timeline. <h3><strong>Education</strong></h3> Alex studied Law at Keele University and went on to complete a Master of Laws and the Legal Practice Course at the University of Law (Bloomsbury) being awarded a distinction. <h3><strong>Background</strong></h3> Prior to joining Grayfords, Alex trained and practiced in a busy full-service family department in London. Quickly gaining significant experience in the full range of family matters. Whilst studying, Alex was part of a multidisciplinary legal outreach programme with the aim of promoting access to justice for vulnerable clients and so has been representing and assisting clients in Family matters since 2014. </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class=""> <div class="container"> <div class="vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid gt3_vc_row_modified"> <div class="wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12"> <div class="vc_column-inner "> <div class="wpb_wrapper"> <div class="gt3_spacing ">   </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>