Amanda Andrews

Partner

Amanda is a partner in the family team and a member of the firm’s private wealth group. She joined Penningtons Manches Cooper in April 2020 from another leading law firm where she was head of the family law practice.

Amanda offers a depth of resource for clients and brings more than 25 years of experience in all aspects of family law, but especially complex children matters and high finance including offshore trusts, complicated property aspects and corporate structures. She regularly negotiates complex pre- and post-nuptial agreements.

I hope my clients perceive me to be approachable, honest and empathetic, and aim to advise in simple and pragmatic terms, with a sharp eye to strategy and overall aim, in the most cost-effective manner.

Amanda Andrews, Partner

A committed member of Resolution and an Accredited Specialist since 2005, Amanda is also a trained mediator who strongly believes in resolution without recourse to court proceedings wherever possible. She approaches all her cases with the same pragmatic and empathetic approach, seeking to find sensible and fair solutions at the earliest opportunity be it in relation to children or the financial aspects of relationship breakdown.

Amanda has been ranked consistently by the leading legal directories Chambers UK and the Legal 500, in which she has been recognised as one of London’s leading individuals for several years. She is described in the 2020 edition of the Legal 500 as ‘a first-class lawyer who nails it every time’, and by her clients and peers as ‘empathetic and pragmatic’, ‘calm and balanced’, and that she will ‘from day one she will have the case on an entirely realistic course’. Amanda is also recognised by Spears magazine and consistently by Citywealth as a prominent figure in its Leading Lawyers Honours List.

Recent work highlights

Enforcement proceedings

Acting for the wife in highly complex enforcement proceedings involving a portfolio of 127 properties, which were divided between the parties equally, including initiating several enforcement applications, all of which were successful.

Children Act proceedings

Representing a father in acrimonious and protracted Children Act proceedings involving a fact finding hearing in which findings of alienation were made against the mother.

Pre-nuptial agreement

Acting for the husband – the son of a high net worth public figure – in relation to the terms of a pre-nuptial agreement at short notice, involving complex off shore trust structures and extensive assets.

Relocation application

Successfully acting for the mother in relation to her application to return to Greece with her daughter, robustly challenged by the father, but in which the court agreed with the mother’s application.

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