Toby Yerburgh

Toby Yerburgh

Qualification date: 1992

Specialising in:

  • Family & divorce
  • Complex UK and international divorce and financial remedy disputes
  • UK and cross border private child disputes
  • UK and International pre and post nuptial settlements

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Toby Yerburgh

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Toby is the Head of our Family team. He advises on all areas of private family law including financial applications, separation agreements, judicial separations, contested and non-contested divorces, jurisdiction disputes, injunctions and applications relating to children. He has particular expertise in prenuptial agreements.

Toby represents a wide variety of clients including musicians, entrepreneurs, business people and professionals. He has significant experience in dealing with cases involving an international element and has contacts with overseas lawyers in many jurisdictions.

Toby is the author of Resolution’s guidance on Access by the Media to Private Hearings, lectures on family law and co-authored Resolution’s updated Code of Practice.

Toby is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers. He sat on the Resolution’s Standard Committee for many years.

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Recognition

  • "I think [Toby is] my favourite lawyer in the world, I wish I had more family problems. It's very rare to meet people that can have such clarity with such scarce initial information, and be so thorough"

    Client feedback

  • "Toby is a master tactician."

    Chambers & Partners UK

  • "[Toby] sees how a case will play out from the start and manoeuvres to get cases to settle."

    Chambers & Partners UK

  • "[Toby] is very clever in terms of strategy."

    Chambers & Partners UK

  • "Collyer Bristow are a first-rate family law team. Headed expertly by Toby Yerburgh, the team provides excellent, strategically astute and pragmatic advice to clients engaged in financial disputes or those involving the arrangements for children following a separation."

    Legal 500

  • "Toby Yerburgh is a first-class tactician. Very well versed in the complexities of business structures, trusts, offshore assets and able to provide advice that is detailed and commercially astute. Excellent with clients and a robust negotiator."

    Legal 500

  • Chambers-UK2024-Toby-Yerburgh

    "Toby provided an outstanding service in difficult circumstances."

    Chambers UK

  • "A very established practitioner. He is extraordinarily knowledgeable and an excellent lawyer. He is very thorough, very easy to deal with and bright"

    Chambers & Partners High Net Worth

  • "Toby Yerburgh is a first rate tactician, who keeps a very calm head even in the most difficult and torrid of cases. His years of experience in big money cases shows in his strategic decision making and his ability to hold his nerve when negotiations are on a knife edge."

    Legal 500

  • "A client praises his "strong character," adding: "He comes across as confident, is knowledgeable and is literally available 24/7 to answer a call to put your mind at rest." Another client says he is "an outstanding individual," describing him as "a man of integrity; this is a man who is exceptionally competent.""

    Chambers & Partners High Net Worth

  • top family law firm 2023 eprivateclient - black logo
  • "At court, Toby is fantastic at managing clients – ensuring that they know exactly what to expect, answering their questions, talking them through each step of the process and assuaging any fears or anxieties they may have. He never appears rushed or impatient but always, always has time for his clients"

    Legal 500

  • "Toby Yerburgh is great on international issues and appears to see through even tricky cases to the answer"

    Legal 500

Toby's work highlights

a couple at their wedding
meeting-room-colleagues

Advising a client in relation to a prenuptial agreement

We carefully negotiated and drafted a prenuptial agreement for a client worth in excess of £100m+. The matter involved various cross-border issues and as with any prenuptial agreement, required detailed consideration and delicate handling. Both parties walked away happy with the agreement and content with the future certainty it sought to create.

Advising a client in relation to financial remedy proceedings following short childless marriage

We acted for a client in relation to divorce and financial remedy proceedings, following a short and childless marriage, in which we reached a very satisfactory settlement following a private financial dispute resolution hearing. There were cross-border issues and a single joint expert had to be instructed in relation to the husband’s financial services company.

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Qualification 1992

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About

Toby is the Head of our Family team. He advises on all areas of private family law including financial applications, separation agreements, judicial separations, contested and non-contested divorces, jurisdiction disputes, injunctions and applications relating to children. He has particular expertise in prenuptial agreements.

Toby represents a wide variety of clients including musicians, entrepreneurs, business people and professionals. He has significant experience in dealing with cases involving an international element and has contacts with overseas lawyers in many jurisdictions.

Toby is the author of Resolution’s guidance on Access by the Media to Private Hearings, lectures on family law and co-authored Resolution’s updated Code of Practice.

Toby is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers. He sat on the Resolution’s Standard Committee for many years.

Learn about your options...

Click here to start working with Toby. Answer questions online and receive information and next steps on your available options.

Learn more about your options

Recognition

  • "I think [Toby is] my favourite lawyer in the world, I wish I had more family problems. It's very rare to meet people that can have such clarity with such scarce initial information, and be so thorough"

    Client feedback

  • "Toby is a master tactician."

    Chambers & Partners UK

  • "[Toby] sees how a case will play out from the start and manoeuvres to get cases to settle."

    Chambers & Partners UK

  • "[Toby] is very clever in terms of strategy."

    Chambers & Partners UK

  • "Collyer Bristow are a first-rate family law team. Headed expertly by Toby Yerburgh, the team provides excellent, strategically astute and pragmatic advice to clients engaged in financial disputes or those involving the arrangements for children following a separation."

    Legal 500

  • "Toby Yerburgh is a first-class tactician. Very well versed in the complexities of business structures, trusts, offshore assets and able to provide advice that is detailed and commercially astute. Excellent with clients and a robust negotiator."

    Legal 500

  • Chambers-UK2024-Toby-Yerburgh

    "Toby provided an outstanding service in difficult circumstances."

    Chambers UK

  • "A very established practitioner. He is extraordinarily knowledgeable and an excellent lawyer. He is very thorough, very easy to deal with and bright"

    Chambers & Partners High Net Worth

  • "Toby Yerburgh is a first rate tactician, who keeps a very calm head even in the most difficult and torrid of cases. His years of experience in big money cases shows in his strategic decision making and his ability to hold his nerve when negotiations are on a knife edge."

    Legal 500

  • "A client praises his "strong character," adding: "He comes across as confident, is knowledgeable and is literally available 24/7 to answer a call to put your mind at rest." Another client says he is "an outstanding individual," describing him as "a man of integrity; this is a man who is exceptionally competent.""

    Chambers & Partners High Net Worth

  • top family law firm 2023 eprivateclient - black logo
  • "At court, Toby is fantastic at managing clients – ensuring that they know exactly what to expect, answering their questions, talking them through each step of the process and assuaging any fears or anxieties they may have. He never appears rushed or impatient but always, always has time for his clients"

    Legal 500

  • "Toby Yerburgh is great on international issues and appears to see through even tricky cases to the answer"

    Legal 500

work highlights

a couple at their wedding
meeting-room-colleagues

Advising a client in relation to a prenuptial agreement

We carefully negotiated and drafted a prenuptial agreement for a client worth in excess of £100m+. The matter involved various cross-border issues and as with any prenuptial agreement, required detailed consideration and delicate handling. Both parties walked away happy with the agreement and content with the future certainty it sought to create.

Advising a client in relation to financial remedy proceedings following short childless marriage

We acted for a client in relation to divorce and financial remedy proceedings, following a short and childless marriage, in which we reached a very satisfactory settlement following a private financial dispute resolution hearing. There were cross-border issues and a single joint expert had to be instructed in relation to the husband’s financial services company.

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