Jennifer Headon

Jennifer is Head of the International Family Law Team and leads the firm’s Modern Family initiative.

She is a recommended lawyer in the prestigious Spear’s Family Law Indices 2025, as well as being recognised in the Legal 500 London directory for both her private children and divorce and financial remedies work. She is described in the Legal 500 [UK 2026] directory as ‘a stand-out…super smart’ giving ‘excellent client service’ whilst being ‘very robust when required’and as having ‘niche expertise in international family law’ (Legal 500 [UK 2023]). Jennifer specialises in international and cross-jurisdictional matters, and she regularly co-advises alongside lawyers based in other jurisdictions, particularly the US and Canada, as well as offshore jurisdictions. She has an increasing number of clients with links to the UAE, Australia and New Zealand. She is also often instructed by lawyers from other jurisdictions to give an opinion on English family law.

Jennifer has experience of dealing with complex financial remedy proceedings arising from divorce and civil partnership dissolution, including those with family businesses, tax issues, trusts (including offshore trusts), significant pensions and offshore companies. Jennifer has significant experience in advising and representing families and individuals whose aim is to ringfence non-matrimonial assets upon divorce in order to preserve family wealth. Jennifer also has experience of advising upon and drafting nuptial agreements (pre and post-nuptial agreements) for HNW and UHNW clients. She regularly engages in various forms of non-court dispute resolution, including arbitration.

Unusually, she continues to advise both in respect of financial matters but also in relation to complex private children matters. Her practice encompasses all elements of international child arrangements; including international relocation applications, as well as negotiating child arrangements for parents who live in, or are moving to, different jurisdictions. She is also recognised in legal directories for her growing practice advising upon legal issues affecting modern families, including cross-border surrogacy arrangements, declarations of parentage and donor/fertility law.

Jennifer has contributed commentary to national press including The Times, The Telegraph, The Sun and Yahoo! News. In April 2024, Wealth Briefing published an article co-authored by Jennifer on ‘Trusts in Divorce Proceedings.‘ Jennifer is a regular speaker at national and international conferences, having recently spoken at ThoughtLeaders4 Trusts in Divorce conference 2025, STEP Bahamas 2025 and the inaugural ThoughtLeaders4 International HNW Divorce & Children Summit 2025 in Lisbon.

Recent work highlights

Advising on English family law for proceedings ongoing in Finland in which English matrimonial law is being applied.

Advising and drafting a PNA in conjunction with US Counsel to ensure protection of assets of $15m and to protect future inherited assets in the region of $100m.

Successfully representing a father in defending the mother’s application for permission to relocate internationally with the parties’ child.

Advising on an international PNA in which assets were in excess of £300m.