Ruben is a Partner in the Family Team specialising in divorce and asset protection. He also leads JMW Signature – the firm’s cross-practice service focused on family offices and ultra-high net worth (UHNW) clients in the UK and internationally.
Ruben and his team advise a variety of clients from successful entrepreneurs and senior financiers to industrialists and professional trustees. He advises on all aspects of family law, with a particular focus on complex HNW and UHNW divorce cases involving corporate structures, trusts and multi-generational wealth. His cases range from the more modest with straightforward assets to some of the largest to have come before the English courts, including a number involving assets between £100m and £1bn+.
Having spent five years practising in Hong Kong and acting for families across the world, Ruben has a wealth of experience advising clients in international cases where there are assets in and connections to a number of different jurisdictions. He has particular expertise advising on trusts (both on and offshore) in the context of divorce, often acting for divorcing beneficiaries (or their spouses) who may be attacking or defending trusts and advising trustees who may be caught in the crossfire of divorce. He regularly works with wealthy families and their advisers on asset protection including pre and post nuptial agreements and structuring to ensure wealth is preserved in the event of a divorce.
Ruben has advised numerous high-profile clients and prominent families. He acted for Sir Frederick Barclay in his successful defence of committal proceedings following his widely publicised divorce from Lady Barclay. He has also acted in a number of other reported cases, some of which have shaped the family law landscape.
