Harry Oliver KC and Charlotte Hartley (instructed by Baroness Shackleton, Nick Manners and Laura Hallahan of Payne Hicks Beach) represented a technology entrepreneur husband, in BR v BR [2025] EWFC 88, which is one of the largest UHNW financial remedy cases (£263m) ever litigated to trial.
After a two-week hearing before Mr Justice Peel, the matrimonial assets were divided 55% / 45% in the husband’s favour. The judgment provides guidance on the treatment of complex multiple business valuations, Wells sharing, discounts for liquidity and risk (considering the decisions of Versteegh, HO v TL, Chai v Pengand Martin) and adjustment for disparity of legal costs.
The final judgment can be found here.
A prior decision in the same case, containing Peel J’s clarification of the rules for when to instruct an SJE account was previously reported as BR v BR [2024] EWHC 11 here
