Nicholas Yates KC
UK Bar Guide 2025
Band 1 : Family: Matrimonial Finance
Band 1
About
Provided by Nicholas Yates KC
Practice Areas
Nicholas specialises in complex financial remedy cases (including Civil Partnership and Schedule 1 claims) involving substantial assets, company valuations, trusts, tax issues and international dimensions. He also drafts nuptial agreements and advises on their enforceability, as well as representing clients in jurisdiction matters, marriage/non-marriage cases and Inheritance Act claims.
Career
Nicholas is a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge and was called to the Bar in 1996. He is highly regarded by his peers and the professionals with whom he works. His domestic practice is based in London, mainly in the High Court and Court of Appeal, while his international practice has included work in Jersey, France, Macau and he often appears in The Cayman Islands, including in their Court of Appeal, where he has been called (ad hoc) to the Bar. He has also given expert evidence as to English law in foreign jurisdictions.
Recent reported cases include: Nicolaisen v Nicolaisen [2023] 1 FLR 1163; CG v SG [2023] EWHC 942 (Fam); FRB v DCA (No. 2) [2020] EWHC 754 (Fam); DJ v BJ (The Cayman Islands) 2019; Al-Baker v Al-Baker (No 2) [2016] EWHC 2510 (Fam); Z v Z and Others [2016] EWHC 1720 (Fam); MG v FG [2016] EWHC 1964 (Fam); De Reene v Galbraith-Marten 13 April 2016 (Court of Appeal); AB v CD [2016] EWHC 10 (Fam) & [2016] EWHC 2482 (Fam); Chai v Peng [2014], [2015], [2016] and [2017].
Professional Memberships
The Family Law Bar Association
Publications
Articles for Family Law
Personal
Classical music, singing (tenor) and cycling
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Nicholas Yates KC focuses on the financial side of relationship dissolution, handling complex cases relating to significant assets and jurisdictional disputes. He often handles financial remedy proceedings involving complex trust and business structures. Yates also leads negotiations in high-value postnuptial agreements.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Nicholas is exceptional in every way. He is a calm, focused advocate, whose advocacy is fluent and to the point. He is great with the lay client and readily available to his instructing solicitor."
"He's a very pragmatic, numerate, incredibly enthusiastic and hard-working silk who is in demand for cases with assets comfortably over £50 million."
"Nicholas is exceptional in every way. He is a calm, focused advocate, whose advocacy is fluent and to the point. He is great with the lay client and readily available to his instructing solicitor."
"He's a very pragmatic, numerate, incredibly enthusiastic and hard-working silk who is in demand for cases with assets comfortably over £50 million."
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