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VIEW ALLLEGAL 500 2025Lois Langton is a stand out Partner and fantastic Head of the Family Team. Lois is regularly delivering the highest calibre of work, taking the lead on numerous challenging cases and seeing them through to great success. You can't get much better than Lois when it comes to Family Law!
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Lois Langton is the Head of Family Law at Howard Kennedy. Acting across the full breadth of family law work, Lois offers a discreet and tailor-made approach that is solution-focused, supported by an exceptional group of talented lawyers whom she leads from the front. Unique in her style, she inspires 'utter confidence'.
Lois' clients are diverse, with many from the sports, entertainment and the arts industries where her experience and knowledge are described as 'second to none'. Her clients also include entrepreneurs and successful business people.
Lois has a particular expertise in dealing with complex financial remedy work involving multi-million pound matrimonial settlements. Her work regularly involves tax, trust, off-shore, and corporate structures, with high-end divorce and financial remedy cases and pre- and post-nuptial agreements being the work Lois most frequently undertakes. She also advises on cohabitation, separation, and children matters (including adoption and surrogacy).
Lois jointly heads the firm's Sport sector group and the family team is also an integral part of the firm's Private Wealth group, meaning clients benefit from expertise across a wide range of practice areas.
Lois is a member of Resolution and Women In Football.
- Acting on a case involving off-shore and complex trust structures.
- Acting on a case where there are Imerman issues arising from the removal of confidential information and advising as to related breach of confidence proceedings.
- Acting on a case concerning the treatment of inherited property.
- Advising on a case where one party brought committal proceedings against the other party for non-payment of maintenance.
- Advising a commissioning couple in an international surrogacy.
- Advising on various pre- and post-nuptial agreements.
- UL v BK – successfully acted for the husband in the leading authority on freezing injunctions and other without notice applications.
- Arbili v Arbili – successfully acted for the wife in a Court of Appeal decision on inherited property and Imerman.
- DM and LK – acting on a surrogacy (enduring relationships and consent) dispute.
- Simonon v Patricia Ronane Simonon – successfully acted for the former husband concerning the treatment of his royalties pursuant to the financial settlement on divorce.
- "Lois Langton was excellent. She provided great legal advice and strategic advice which was all expertly delivered, and she was a joy to work with
Her judgement and her intelligence are second to none." Chambers UK 2026 - "She's a superb, constructive solicitor. She has really brilliant technical mind but also has really strategic vision." Chambers UK 2026
- "She is highly knowledgeable and knows how to create long-term relationships with other professionals so that working on cases together is a smooth and efficient process." Chambers UK 2026
- Ranked Band 2, Family/Matrimonial Finance: UHNW, Chambers UK 2026
- "The first strength of the Howard Kennedy family law team is the formidable leadership of Lois Langton. The firm has deep expertise across a number of areas of the law, meaning it can cope with cases of the very heaviest complexity and the myriad problems they throw up - from tax to trusts to reputation management. The team works on a modern and agile basis and is extremely responsive." Legal 500 2026
- "Lois Langton is first-rate. Some solicitors are good technical lawyers, some are good strategists and some are great communicators. Lois is all of those. She is the perfect choice for a complicated case with international aspects and - for any case involving sportspeople - there is no-one better." Legal 500 2026
- "Lois Langton is an absolute superstar - one of the very best children's lawyers in London. She is very astute, totally committed, and with a celebrity client list that is the envy of most." Legal 500 2026
- Ranked as a Leading Partner, Family: Children, Legal 500 2026
- Ranked as a Leading Partner, Family: Divorce & Financial Remedy, Legal 500 2026
- Ranked Band 2, Family/Matrimonial: Ultra High Net Worth, Chambers HNW Guide 2025
- Lois was recommended in Citywealth 2025 Leaders List.
- Listed as Top Recommended Lawyer, Spear's Family Lawyers Index 2025
- Listed as Leading Partner, Private Client: Family, Legal 500 2025
- "She is a leader in the family law space and is reliable, diligent and well-respected by her clients." Chambers UK 2025
- "Lois is an excellent lawyer." Chambers UK 2025
- "Lois is highly technical, a perfectionist with a bigger-picture, strategic focus who manages client expectations and money brilliantly." Chambers UK 2025
- Ranked Band 3, Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth (London Firms), Chambers UK 2025
- "Lois Langton is one of the finest family solicitors in the City and has a reputation that goes before her." Legal 500 UK 2024
- "She is a lawyer of the highest calibre with judgment to match. She has a five star practice which is a tribute to her formidable litigation skills." Legal 500 UK 2024
- "Lois Langton is an exceptional lawyer. She is a great leader of an excellent team. She gives her clients the best possible advice. I would always recommend her to all our people." Legal 500 UK 2024
- "This firm are uniquely well-placed to advise clients in the media, sports, and entertainment industries, where their experience is second-to-none. A huge array of personality within the department explains why the clients are typically quite creative. Headed by Lois Langton, they are all stellar." Legal 500 UK 2024
- Ranked Band 3, Family/Matrimonial: Ultra High Net Worth, Chambers UK 2024
- "There are few family lawyers with her depth and breadth of experience and knowledge, and Lois's commercial awareness is second to none." Chambers UK 2024
- "Lois is very tactical and absolutely brilliant with clients. She has a calming influence, always pragmatic and never dramatic. She inspires utter confidence, as she is incredibly knowledgeable and is always on hand to deliver advice promptly." Chambers UK 2024
Lois’ principal interests are football and ballet. An Arsenal season-ticket holder (home and away), Lois is also Chair of the Arsenal Independent Supporters’ Association.
