Alan Kaufman
Partner: Head of Family
The Directories say: Alan Kaufman is described as “a charismatic lawyer who takes a commercial approach to complex cases”.
Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession 2010 Alan Kaufman is widely recommended and “very experienced”.
Legal 500 Clients’ Guide to the UK Legal Profession 2009 Alan Kaufman is described as “a marvellous and charismatic lawyer,” who “will pull out all the stops for his clients”.
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Alan specialises in heavy weight family law disputes. He has had many years experience acting in multi-million pound matrimonial settlements and acts for wealthy businessmen, particularly in the property industry, and high profile media, entertainment and sports personalities.
He is a trained mediator having been taught his mediation skills by the New York Mediation Group and he is also a trained Collaborative Lawyer.
He also has extensive commercial litigation experience (including shareholders and partnership disputes, copyright and property related litigation). This means he is able to bring his commercial acumen as an added value element to matrimonial financial settlement negotiations.
In 2005, Alan was elected a Fellow of the prestigious International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and in 2008 he was admitted as a member of the high profile group of collaborative lawyers known as the Central London Collaborative Forum, which comprises London's leading divorce lawyers.
Recent Work
- Alan's increasingly international related family law work is demonstrated by his negotiation of a financial settlement in a high profile media celebrity case which involved the Irish Courts and Irish advisers as well as the English Court. He was also the lead member of the team dealing with a leading reported case involving the legal and enforcement systems of various countries across the world including England, Pakistan, USA and Hong Kong
- Alan and his team are receiving a greatly increased flow of work in connection with Pre Nuptial and Post Nuptial Agreements. He has recently completed work in connection with such an agreement between a Texan resident and an English resident. The parties will be living in England and an agreement was drawn up with the assistance of Texas lawyers such that the agreement is subject to Texas law but is meant to be enforceable across the world including England. He has also completed work on a Pre Nuptial Agreement involving a super wealthy husband fund manager and his lawyer wife involving an agreement to cover the jurisdictions of US, Hong Kong, Canada, Japan and England
Recent Articles/Speaking Engagements
Alan is a regular commentator on family law issues and comments extensively on the television both domestically and world wide. This has included interviews on Sky, BBC News, CNN, Radio 4 Breakfast Time, Breakfast television, Radio 5 Live, BBC News 24 and a number of regional TV stations including BBC Asia News. Alan also writes articles for national and international newspapers and legal journals and has recently given interviews to The Times, The Independent and The Sun. He is asked to comment on all high profile family law cases including the Madonna, McCartney and Mel Gibson divorces, Charman v Charman, Myerson v Myerson, and the separation of Siamese twins and rights to IVF disputes.
Random Fact
Outside of work Alan's time is very much engaged with his family, being the father of five daughters and the grandfather of a grandson and a granddaughter. He is an avid follower of Arsenal Football Club and otherwise loves spending time at his small country pile in the Cotswolds.