Firm promotes family lawyer
Simon Blain has been promoted to partner in the Penningtons Manches’ family law department, boosting the highly-ranked London team to seven partners and 10 fee earners. A fluent French speaker, Simon joined the firm in 2008 and is building a reputation as one of London’s foremost international family lawyers.
As well as being an experienced and highly-regarded family lawyer, Simon is also a family mediator and a collaborative lawyer. He has particular expertise in complex financial cases, often involving trusts, family businesses and assets in more than one jurisdiction.
Simon also advises parents on all aspects of the law relating to children, including same sex parents and financial applications on behalf of children of single parents. He has represented parents in cases involving allegations of child abduction and where one or other parent seeks permission to remove a child from England permanently.
He is a member of the Association of Lawyers for Children, sits on Resolution's Children Committee and is on the legal panel of Reunite, a charity that helps abducted children and their families.
Head of family department, Jane Craig says: “Simon’s promotion is well deserved. He is a first class lawyer whose air of calm authority, coupled with great personal warmth and empathy, has won him many admirers amongst clients and colleagues alike. I am delighted that he is now one of our partners. His appointment, along with that of Veronica Gilmour in November 2014, is helping the department go from strength to strength.”
