Laura Brookes

Laura is a trainee at the firm currently sitting in her fourth seat split between the Family and Commercial Disputes teams. She is working on a broad range of family law matters, including divorce and subsequent financial remedy proceedings and private law children matters. She is also working on a range of commercial litigation cases.

In her previous seat with the Corporate team, she assisted on a range of merger and acquisition transactions and corporate governance advisory work. She has also completed a seat in the Private Client team, where she worked on a broad mix of offshore, onshore and contentious matters for individuals, family offices and trusts, advising on tax, succession and wealth planning. Laura has also sat with the Real Estate team, working on the full range of commercial property transactions including re-financing deals, acquisitions, and sales.

Before commencing her training contract, Laura worked as a paralegal in the Insolvency and Restructuring team, where she undertook a wide range of contentious and non-contentious insolvency work. She also has extensive experience from the work she did as a litigation paralegal prior to joining Wedlake Bell, advising national clients on a range of commercial disputes.

• Advising a UHNW individual in regard to all aspects of his wealth, succession and tax planning across multiple jurisdictions, including a contentious tax dispute.
• Advising a UHNW individual in regard to the incorporation of a Family Investment Company (FIC), advising on shareholding structures and tax-efficient funding strategies to benefit subsequent generations.
• Assisting on highly contentious financial remedy matrimonial proceedings involving dissipation of assets and various conduct arguments.
• Advising an international client on a multi-million pound contract dispute which was then resolved at a mediation.
• Advising a well-known national restaurant business on multiple site acquisitions across the country as part of a corporate deal with both debt and equity funding pieces.