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VIEW ALLLEGAL 500 2025Nina Lake is beyond brilliant in terms of her intellect and how she deals with clients. Whether the case involves complex finances or vast wealth, it pays to have Nina on your side.'
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Nina is a highly regarded family law specialist, known for her outstanding expertise in resolving complex matrimonial and child-related disputes. She provides bespoke advice on a wide range of matters, including divorce, financial settlements, child arrangements, and sensitive family issues such as domestic abuse.
Nina is particularly adept at crafting pre- and post-nuptial agreements tailored to safeguard wealth and future-proof her clients’ interests, as well as advising on the legal intricacies of cohabitation.
Nina’s practice is focused on high-net-worth individuals, often involving substantial and intricate financial portfolios with multi-jurisdictional dimensions. Her clients include professionals at the top of their fields, such as lawyers, doctors, and senior executives, alongside entrepreneurs, business leaders, and inheritors of significant generational wealth. She is frequently sought after by high-profile celebrities and media personalities, offering discreet and strategic representation to protect their financial and personal interests.
With an empathetic and pragmatic approach, Nina supports her clients through what is often one of the most emotionally challenging periods of their lives. She is praised for her ability to navigate complex negotiations with sensitivity while remaining focused on achieving the best possible outcomes. Nina combines technical excellence with strategic foresight, ensuring her clients feel empowered and secure at every stage of the process.
Nina’s reputation for handling high-stakes cases with diligence and care has earned her the trust of clients both in the UK and internationally, making her a standout figure in the field of family law.
- Advising a client in an UHNW case in which it was thought that assets totalled over £200m and spanned across the globe.
- Advising the ex-wife of a singer/songwriter to consider matrimonial claims against him some 30 years after divorce due to husband's breach of earlier separation agreement.
- Managing financial negotiations involving complex international tax issues including jurisdictions such as the US, Japan and Brazil.
- Representing an Emirati father in proceedings to return his son to Dubai from England following mother removing the child from Dubai and refusing to return him without his consent.
- Advising on a pre-nuptial agreement where the client had made his extensive wealth in crypto currency.
- Advising on a post-nuptial agreement where the client had serious health conditions which prevented her from working, but had extensive family wealth and husband had very little wealth of his own but was the main carer for the wife.
- "Nina Lake is often involved in some of the biggest and most complex cases that come before the courts, and she is always on point with her advice." Chambers UK 2026
- "Nina Lake is very sensible. She fights her client's corner but is focused on resolution." Chambers UK 2026
- "Nina Lake is very popular with clients and she gets very high-calibre work." Chambers UK 2026
- "Nina Lake is a great children lawyer with a good eye for giving practical advice. I have worked less with Nina than with Jess, but they seemed to work in tandem on the case we were involved in, and provided great support to the client involved." Legal 500 2026
- Ranked Band 5, Family/Matrimonial Finance: HNW, Chambers UK 2026
- "Nina Lake is a standout player in financial remedies matters. She is widely regarded as one of the finest matrimonial lawyers in London." Legal 500 2026
- Ranked as Band 5, Family / Matrimonial Finance: HNW, Chambers HNW Guide 2025.
- Nina was recommended in Citywealth 2025 Leaders List.
- Listed as Recommended Lawyer, Spear's Family Law Index 2025
- Listed as Key Lawyer, Private client: Family, Legal 500 2023
Nina used to compete for the GB bobsleigh team as a driver. She continues to enjoy to keep fit and in doing so has run marathons in both Vienna and Milan.