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Gemma Willingham

Partner | Baker McKenzie

Office Location: London, United Kingdom

Jurisdiction

England and Wales

Top Specialisms

Trusts: Contentious

Commercial Litigation

Family Governance and Business

Professional Biography

I am a partner and solicitor advocate in Baker McKenzie's Dispute Resolution team in London. I specialise in complex international trust and wealth management related litigation, in which I act for trustees, executors, protectors, UHNW beneficiaries and interested third parties. I am very familiar with all the major offshore jurisdictions, and am described by Legal 500 as: "highly impressive and extremely adept at steering trustees through rocky waters in the most complex of cases" and as "very bright, charming and - just as importantly – with deep reserves of the emotional intelligence necessary for this work".

What was your first job?

A waitress at Burnley Football Club (a long time before they were anywhere near the Premier League!)

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

Invisible Women' by Caroline Criado Perez - it's excellent book-club material.