About
Liza Gatrell is Managing Partner, South Coast and Central at Stowe Family Law, based in the Southampton department and overseeing the firm’s South Coast team across Dorset, Wiltshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire. She specialises in family law—with a focus on complex financial disputes involving substantial assets, businesses and trusts, cross-border matters, prenuptial agreements, cohabitation, children cases and surrogacy law—and joined Stowe in May 2021, subsequently being promoted to Partner and Head of the Portsmouth office in December 2022 and Team Leader Partner in April 2023; prior to Stowe she practised at a prominent South Coast firm where she developed expertise in Armed Forces pensions.
Practice areas
FamilyChildrenPre-nuptial AgreementsCohabitationPensionsPrivate ClientInternational Family
Office
Expertise
Armed Forces pensionsComplex financial disputes (assets, businesses, trusts)Pre-nuptial agreementsCohabitation mattersChildren cases (including international elements)Surrogacy lawCross-border family matters
Education
- Cardiff University (qualified 2008)
Languages
English