Caroline Park

Spear’s Review

Partner Caroline Park joined Hughes Fowler Carruthers in 2008 from Freshfields, where she trained as a tax specialist, and rose rapidly to become HFC’s first internal promotion to partnership in 10 years.

This training readied her for the complex corporate structures which arise in high-end (and often multi-jurisdictional) divorce work. ‘My job is to protect my clients,’ she said. ‘I fight their corner, defend their interests and get them through what can be a tumultuous process of divorce, with their dignity intact and energy restored for the next chapter of their lives.’

Park also specialises in pre- and post-nuptial agreements and disputes involving children. Clients include entrepreneurs, senior bankers, lawyers, professionals and their spouses.

Adviser Profile

One of the best lawyers of her generation, ‘highly strategic’ Caroline Park is noted for her ‘razor-sharp intellect’ and for achieving results for her clients ‘that others would not even think possible’. Caroline achieves these with admirable composure and is a particularly skilled negotiator. Her clients are fiercely loyal to her and value her drive and tenacity, while peers enthuse that she is supremely bright, super organised and calm and devout in the furthering of her client’s best case. 

Caroline has extensive experience across the whole spectrum of family law work, particularly in relation to complex financial disputes arising on divorce and separation, disputes involving children, and the drafting and negotiation of pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements. 

Sought-after and routinely instructed in ultra-high-net-worth matters, Caroline has cemented her position as one of the go-to lawyers of her generation. She is frequently engaged in the most complex, cross-jurisdictional divorce and financial remedy cases. She is noted for having the perfect combination of being ‘exceptionally bright and technically able, but at the same time pragmatic and conscious of getting the right outcome for her client’. 

Clients have great confidence in her calm and thorough approach, and describe her as determined, clever and focussed, combining this with genuine kindness and warmth. Caroline has been praised for having a ‘human side to her that clients love’ and for being ‘very client friendly, very pragmatic and very measured’. 

Caroline’s interests outside of work include traveling, hiking, food and wine, and reading.