Caroline East

Caroline East

Senior Associate · Senior Associate

Penningtons Manches Cooper

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About Caroline

Caroline is a senior associate in the London family law team with over 15 years post-qualified experience, focusing on all aspects of divorce and private family law including complex financial matters, arrangements for children, pre-nuptial agreements and cohabitation disputes. A trained collaborative lawyer, mental health first aider and French speaker, she co-founded the firm’s neurodiversity committee and won the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Champion of the Year award at the Women and Diversity in Law Awards 2024.

Areas of expertise

Divorce
Complex Financial Matters
International Divorce
Pre-Nuptial Agreements
Cohabitation
Children
Collaborative Law

Notable cases

Assets across jurisdictions in corporate and trust structures against wife in non-EU Lugano country|Competing international proceedings in England and Cyprus|Financial remedy for American wife including maintenance pending suit and family trust issues

Awards & recognition

Legal 500 Recommended
Women and Diversity in Law Awards 2024 – Diversity Equity and Inclusion Champion of the Year

Professional background

Education
BSc (Hons) International Management and French, University of Bath
Languages
French

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Last updated: 12 May 2026

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