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Ann Thomas
Managing Partner
Email: ann.thomas@iflg.uk.com
Telephone: +44 (0)203 178 5668
Fax: +44 (0)203 178 5669
Ann Thomas is a solicitor, civil and family mediator, a trained collaborative lawyer and the Managing Partner at iFLG. She specialises in all aspects of family law, including complex financial issues arising from the breakdown of a relationship. She handles high net worth financial cases, often involving partnerships, companies and trusts. She regularly advises on prenuptial agreements and cohabitation issues. She is recognised as a leading international children lawyer. Many of Ann’s family cases have an international element. She is a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, the world’s leading organisation of peer elected top family lawyers dealing with international work.
She is an advanced accredited solicitor (The Law Society’s Family Law Panel).
She is a member of the lawyers network of Reunite, the leading UK charity specialising in international parental child abduction and which provides advice, information and support to parents, family members and guardians who have had a child abducted or who fear child abduction.
She is a chair of the Resolution International Committee and a past member of the London Regional Committee of Resolution (formerly known as SFLA). Ann is former chair of the Family Law Steering group of LawNet and former President and founder of the Eurojuris International Family Lawyers Practice Group whose headquarters are in Brussels. She is a member of The International Bar Association and the Institute of Directors. She is a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals.
She has written a number of articles on the recent developments in family law and has also presented seminars on international aspects of family law in this country and in other European countries. Ann also regularly lectures to the legal profession both in this country and abroad. She has recently been involved in training family Judges in Serbia in the Hague Convention and international family law. She attended the Australian family lawyers conference in Perth in October 2006 and Adelaide in April 2008.
Ann is often asked by the media to comment on topical issues in family law. She has been in a number of high profile reported cases.
She has been Partner and Head of the Family Department of a Mayfair firm and previously was Head of Department at a large regional firm in Cambridge.
Specialist Appointments/Qualifications
- The Law Society’s Family Law Panel (Advanced Accreditation)
- Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
- The International Bar Association
- The Solicitors Family Law Association (SFLA)
- Former Chair of the Resolution (formerly known as the SFLA) International Committee
- Former member of Resolution (formerly known as the SFLA) London Regional Committee
- Resolution (formerly known as the SFLA) Family Mediator
- Former Chair of LawNet Family Lawyers Group
- Former Chair Eurojuris International Family Lawyers Group
- The Scottish Family Law Association
- The Institute of Directors
- International Academy of Collaborative Lawyers
- Law Council of Australia, Family Law Section
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