Emma Willing

Her extensive international experience sees her draw regularly on her network of international contacts across her caseload. She works for clients from a wide range of backgrounds including entrepreneurs, family business owners, city professionals, celebrities and the independently wealthy. Legal 500 lists Emma as a next generation partner, and has previously noted that she ‘impresses with her hard work and dedication to her cases’, and that she has ‘extraordinary tact and patience with clients’. It has further stated that ‘Emma is a really accomplished, classy family lawyer who fights hard for her clients’ and ‘is calm, with a razor-sharp intelligence’. She also features in the Chambers High Net Worth Guide, in which one source described her as being ‘one of the most talented lawyers I know’.

Emma also has extensive expertise in advising in respect to modern family building, whether through surrogacy, assisted reproduction, donor conception, co-parenting and adoption, both domestic and international. She has worked on numerous complex surrogacy cases involving overseas jurisdictions and for clients with international connections. Emma is listed in the Tatler Address Book’s ‘Pathways to Parenthood’ section. As a qualified mediator, she can also assist clients in seeking to resolve issues outside the context of court proceedings. Emma frequently contributes to the legal press and is a member of Resolution. She joined Penningtons Manches Cooper in September 2022 and previously spent over 12 years at another leading firm in London.