Recent Reported Cases
SM v BA & Anor (No 3: Amendments to Statements of Case) [2026] EWFC 9
14.01.2026
SM v BA (No 2: Maintenance Pending Suit) [2025] EWFC 28
19.02.2025
SM v BA [2025] EWFC 7
10.01.2025
Rotenberg v Rotenberg & Ors [2024] EWFC 185
15.07.2024
Dmitry Tsvetkov v Elsina Khayrova [2023] EWFC 130 – The Judgment:
04.08 2023
Dmitry Tsvetkov v Elsina Khayrova [2023] EWFC 131 – The costs judgment:
04.08 2023
EL and ML [2023] EWFC 43
15.02.23
Recognition
“Simon Pigott steers the ship with expertise.” Chambers HNW 2026
“Simon Pigott is one of the best in the business. He’s immensely experienced and there’s nothing he hasn’t seen. He works hard, is really experienced and fantastic strategically but has a lovely manner.” Chambers HNW 2026
“Simon Pigott is an excellent mediator able to get to the heart of the issues and tries to enable parties to reach a solution that works to the benefit of both of them.” Chambers HNW 2026
“Simon made me feel very safe and well advised.” Chambers HNW 2026
‘Simon Pigott has been at the top of the profession many, many years and continues to be a force with whom to reckon. He is experienced, wise, calm, charming and deadly.’ Legal 500 2026
‘Simon Pigott is very simply is a top lawyer. He is pragmatic, results orientated and understood a complex multi-year case very quickly in great detail. His wealth of experience and understanding of the family law and the court system was tremendously reassuring.’ Legal 500 2026
‘Jeremy Levison and Simon Pigott exude experience and class. There is nothing that they have not seen or done before. In every situation, they have experience.’ Legal 500 2026
“Simon’s great, a pleasure to work with. I really like him: he’s a decent, normal human being who knows his stuff. He’s been around a while and people respect him. He’s an amazing mediator as well.” Chambers HNW 2025 and Chambers UK 2026
“I felt in safe hands with Simon as mediator. He was measured, fair and listened to both sides. That meant we had as few sessions as possible and all was done in good time rather than drawing it out.” Chambers HNW 2025 and Chambers UK 2026
“Simon Pigott is a much-respected statesman of family law. He exudes statesmanlike qualities. He has done this so long and is very good at anticipating things; nothing takes him by surprise.” Chambers HNW 2025 and Chambers UK 2026
Simon Pigott is an exceptional individual. He has been around long enough to know all of the tricks of the game. He is a first-rate litigator but has the rare talent of being able to move effortlessly into the role of mediator and peacemaker. He has some of the best cases in both.’ Legal 500 2025
‘Simon Pigott is very clear headed and vastly knowledgeable. Excellent skills as mediator in establishing trust and innovative solutions.’ Legal 500 2025
‘Simon Pigott is top of his field for complex financial mediation. He is our first port of call for clients for whom mediation is suitable.’ Legal 500 2025
‘Simon Pigott has a deserved legendary reputation in the field of mediation. He is a superb mediator, ensuring he has an ability to resolve even the most intractable disagreements between the most challenging individuals. He is the ‘go-to’ person for mediation.’ Legal 500 2025
‘Simon Pigott is the go-to mediator for complex financial remedy work. He is a class act. He is insightful, highly skilled and a leader in the field of family law mediation.’ Legal 500 2025
‘Jeremy Levison and Simon Pigott are two titans of family law. Their experience is almost unmatched in the industry and they are so good at what they do.’ Legal 500 2025
“Simon is extremely personable and able to get unreasonable clients to change course.” Chambers HNW 2024 and Chambers UK 2025
“Simon has a real command of the room, and his clients really value and trust him.” Chambers HNW 2024 and Chambers UK 2025
“Simon is a go-to mediator for difficult cases. He’s calm, measured, authoritative and clients like him. He’s the go-to mediator for complex financial matters.” Chambers HNW 2024 and Chambers UK 2025
“ LMP have established themselves as the foremost boutique matrimonial practice in London. They are notable for the high level of service they provide and they offer exceptional value for money. Simon Pigott is a man of the highest integrity and is a formidable litigator. He is highly regarded.” Legal 500 2024
“Simon Pigott is one of the great family law solicitors and a gentleman to boot. He inspires confidence.” Legal 500 2024
“Simon Pigott is one of the best mediators in the country”’. Legal 500 2024
“Simon Pigott is a class act. Highly experienced, extremely knowledgeable and engages with the issues to help clients resolve matters amicably in mediation”. Legal 500 2024
“Simon is the go-to mediator for complex cases. He is very knowledgeable and has an air of authority that enables him to bring clients to settlement.“ Chambers HNW 2023 and Chambers UK 2024
“Simon is very experienced, very knowledgeable and very collaborative. He’s seen it all before, which makes him very unflappable. If you were a client, you would find his manner very reassuring.” “Simon is so organised, so calm under pressure and so good with clients. He has the most impeccable judgement.” Chambers UK 2023 and Chambers UK 2024
“A small but perfectly formed niche boutique team specialising in family law. In Simon Pigott and Jeremy Levison the firm has 2 of the most experienced, respected and well liked family solicitors in London. They provide the firm with leadership and example and still attract a range of very high profile and interesting cases”. Legal 500 2023
“Levison Meltzer Pigott fields an ‘exceptional team’ with the ‘simply phenomenal’ Simon Pigott at the helm who works on the ‘hardest of cases and trickiest of clients with skill’”. Legal 500 2023
“Simon Pigott at Levison Meltzer Pigott ‘is one of London’s best mediators and has a first-class reputation and achieves very good results. He has all the personal qualities needed to mediate complex family cases’”. Legal 500 2023
“Simon is very, very experienced, very knowledgeable and very collaborative. He’s seen it all before which makes him very unflappable” Chambers HNW 2022
“If you were a client, you would find his manner very reassuring” Chambers HNW 2022
“He really fights for his clients and is very good and analytical. He really understands finance too, and has a lot of international experience.” “He is diligent and immediately gains clients’ confidence.” “He is an excellent, outcomes-focused mediator.” Chambers UK 2022
“Jeremy Levison and Simon Pigott are both extremely experienced leaders in the field. They have seen it all and so have all the answers.”
“Simon listens and does not make decisions for his own gain or that of his firm, which is very rare in family law. The strategic advice and guidance was extremely thoughtful and well researched.”
Legal 500 2022
“ Simon offered sensible and fair solutions, which were both reassuring thoughtful. Simon is a rare breed in family law. He has a paternal and reassuring disposition that is not patronising or undermining. He wants the best and most fair outcome for his client and is not ruthless in his approach. This probably comes from the fact that he works as a mediator and while excellent at representing his clients’ interests, looks at the other side of the coin and makes important points that allow you to come to a well rounded and thoughtful decision.” Legal 500 2022
“Simon Pigott is excellence and experience in a glass. Highly respected by all who work with him and trusted by all in the profession. He is liked and admired by Judges and Clients alike and never fails to meet their expectations” Legal 500 2022 – Family Mediation
Simon Pigott has an excellent reputation as a lawyer and mediator within family law. A source explains: “Simon is quite simply magisterial in his approach. He is calm, measured and fair. He will fight his corner but knows very well the value of an agreement that all parties can live with.” A barrister notes: “He is brilliant, he’s an absolute legend. The reason he’s so good is he has a very quick mind, he reads situations brilliantly and is a very good people person. He can read the dynamic of a situation peerlessly, he is just brilliant at human dynamics.” Chambers HNW Guide 2021
“Simon’s experience, ability and sixth sense enabled him to quickly focus on issues and ensure that my case was presented to maximise the preferred outcome.” “He instils confidence in his clients and his preparation is brilliant.” Chambers UK 2021
“Simon Pigott stands out for his huge experience and measured approach. He is the archetypal lawyer you would want on your side.” Legal 500 2021
“Simon Pigott is a first-rate mediator – calm and assured” Legal 500 2021
“Simon Pigott has been doing mediation for such a long period of time and as a result is immensely experienced and knowledgeable” Legal 500 2021
“Simon Pigott is a highly experienced mediator and family lawyer of standing, respected by clients and peers alike” Legal 500 2021
“Simon works with complex financial issues and often high-conflict situations, wherever possible helping clients to find creative and workable solutions through mediation rather than recourse or return to the cost and uncertainty of court proceedings” Legal 500 2021
A client says Simon Pigott is “the voice of reason among all the ‘noise’ of divorce,” adding that “Simon cuts through all the jargon and the distress.” Pigott is also regarded as “a brilliant mediator” and has a highly active mediation practice. A source says he can “turn his hand to very complicated and highly acrimonious HNW mediations, and other things like international relocation where the mood is quite difficult.” Chambers HNW Guide 2020
