Alexandra Baggallay

Senior associate

Alexandra Baggallay

Senior associate

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Alexandra is a senior associate in the family team, based in Oxford. She specialises in complex divorce and financial matters, disputes concerning arrangements for children, and nuptial agreements.

She has a background in acting for wealthy clients, both married and unmarried, in all aspects of their divorce and separation. Alexandra has a varied client base, assisting individuals from all walks of life. Her practice encompasses financial remedy claims for individuals (or their spouses) with backgrounds in finance, family businesses, the arts and landed estates. She also has a strong private children practice with an expertise in complex relocation cases, and regularly advises on disputes where children should live or go to school, often where significant safeguarding concerns have been raised.

I offer clear, strategic, compassionate and pragmatic advice to clients during what is often one of the most difficult periods of their lives. I am committed to achieving outcomes for my clients outside the courtroom and on a consensual basis, without acrimony, wherever possible.

Alexandra Baggallay, Senior associate

In addition, Alexandra has an established practice advising individuals in the Oxford area and the Cotswolds in respect of their nuptial agreements, and is sought after in this area. She is committed to achieving good outcomes for her clients through non-court dispute resolution where possible, often supporting them through hybrid-mediation and private FDRs, but is also an experienced and tactical litigator when clients are involved in court proceedings.

Alexandra is a committed member of Resolution, the leading organisation for specialist family lawyers in England and Wales, and until recently sat on the Oxford Regional Committee. She joined Penningtons Manches Cooper in 2026 from another firm in Oxford, having previously spent over 10 years at a leading firm in London.

Recent work highlights

Opposing sharing claim

Advising and successfully representing a wife through a private FDR where the husband was seeking a 50% share of the wife’s inherited wealth, but accepted an offer less than half the sum he was originally seeking.

Post-separation contribution claim

Acting for a wife in High Court proceedings involving a substantial care home business. Successfully opposed the husband’s needs and contribution arguments, securing a generous award for the wife on the basis of a sharing claim at a private FDR.

Capitalisation and variation of maintenance order

Acting for a wife whose former husband was seeking to capitalise a spousal maintenance order which was ordered 10 years previously; the matter was resolved through solicitor negotiations.

Postnuptial agreement

Advising three siblings on the terms of a post-nuptial agreement where they had inherited a Cotswold farm from an uncle and the gift was made on the condition that such protection was in place.

Leave to remove application

Successfully representing a father in acrimonious leave to remove proceedings where the mother was seeking to relocate to Italy with the children, persuading the judge at the final hearing that a move was not in the children’s best interests.

Complex Children Act proceedings

Advising and successfully representing a mother where the father had a history of psychosis and was seeking a shared lives with order. After input from a psychiatrist and Cafcass, we were able to agree a final order.

High conflict proceedings

Representing a father in high conflict proceedings, where the mother had a history of drug addiction and abuse, securing lives with and prohibited steps orders for the father.

Hybrid mediation

Advising and supporting a wife through a hybrid mediation, where finances were extremely tight and traditional mediation was breaking down, securing an outcome where the wife received 100% of the equity in the family home.

High conflict proceedings

Representing a father in high conflict proceedings, where the mother had a history of drug addiction and abuse, securing lives with and prohibited steps orders for the father.

Hybrid mediation

Advising and supporting a wife through a hybrid mediation, where finances were extremely tight and traditional mediation was breaking down, securing an outcome where the wife received 100% of the equity in the family home.

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Alexandra Baggallay is excellent: committed to achieving the best outcomes for her clients; prompt in her communication; and she has very good client care.

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