Irpreet Kohli
Partner | London | Birmingham
"Irpreet Kohli acts in complex matrimonial disputes and children law cases. Sources say: "She's just fantastic with the figures and analysing the different financial possibilities of different settlements. She's excellent on the numbers and looks at the bigger picture."
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About Irpreet
Irpreet is a highly regarded specialist international family lawyer who has been advising individuals for over 20 years on a wide range of complex HNW family issues.
Due to her empathetic and pragmatic approach with clients combined with her sharp, strategic focus on the issues, Irpreet’s practice is focussed on HNW individuals with multi-faceted asset portfolios, including international assets, trusts and businesses.
Irpreet is regularly sought out to assist C-suite executives, senior lawyers and professionals and business owners. Her experience with those matters also enables her to robustly assist the spouses of wealth owners who may initially need pragmatic advice in relation to funding and living expenses if their partners have managed and controlled the finances during the relationship, including sports personalities and actresses.
Irpreet joined Freeths in 2019 from an internationally focussed boutique Belgravia firm and has quickly grown the London Family team. The team is has been recognised and ranked by the leading legal directories, including Legal 500, Chambers HNW and e-privateclient. Irpreet is a recognised lawyer for Wealth Management Practice in the 2025 edition of 'The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom'.
Irpreet particularly prides herself on providing a holistic service by working closely with the wider teams at Freeths and her trusted network of advisors, such as private wealth lawyers, financial advisers and investment managers to ensure clients move forward into their post-separation futures fully supported.
Contact Irpreet
Call: 0345 126 3776
Mobile: 0797 158 6183
Notable work & expertise
Recent Work
- Advising the ex-wife in relation to a settlement involving complex questionable remuneration trusts and offshore assets set up by the husband and being used to shelter and disguise assets of around £75m.
- Advising and negotiating the terms of a pre-nuptial agreement for a client marrying a HNW individual with wealth of £50m and ensuring further protection was in place in 2 other jurisdictions to mirror and secure the terms of the UK pre-nuptial agreement.
- Advising a client who had moved to Canada from the UK in relation to issues regarding the potential return of the children to the UK and negotiating a financial settlement across the 2 jurisdictions.
- Advising a client on an appropriate financial settlement involving a family business established during the marriage, farming land, leased commercial property and offshore pensions.
- Advising clients who are not married in relation to financial settlements and the arrangements for children.
- Advising a client to successfully see off claims by spouses who have already had their claims dealt with overseas and are seeking ‘top-up’ financial claims in England.
- Advising on a divorcing couple involving family wealth including a property portfolio comprising of 20 residential and commercial units. The proceedings involved an extended family intervention where family members claimed a beneficial interest in the rental units. Total matrimonial assets were in the region of £25m and were resolved following complicated and acrimonious multi party proceedings involving the UK as well as overseas accounts and property assets.
- Irpreet has advised on a number of other intervention matters, including cases where she has defending against the intervention of family members into divorce proceedings in which she represents either H or W and also where she represents the interveners (parents of either spouse) in the divorce proceedings
- Advising on Part III MFPA 1984 proceedings (financial provision after an overseas divorce) where parties are already divorced abroad and are seeking to make further claims against UK assets.
Testimonials
"Irpreet is the perfect solicitor to have on your team. She adopts a common sense approach to all matters and approaches negotiations pragmatically...
Client testimonial
"Irpreet Kohli is fully active in her cases and clients. She has an impressive ability to analyse problems tactically."
The Legal 500, 2025
"Irpreet was an unwavering support to me throughout my divorce and a time when I felt I would not make it through the stress to come. Sensible, str...
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