Chair IBA Family Law Committee from 1 January 2021. Uniquely practising English, as well as Hong Kong, family law from London. ‘When it comes to international trusts and family law cases, Marcus Dearle is in a class of his own’: Legal 500 2021. Partner Miles Preston & Co from 1 January 2021. Partner Berwin Leighton Paisner/Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner from May 2016 to 31 December 2020. Partner Withers 1995 to 30 April 2016. Qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales: 1990, Hong Kong: 2011, and BVI: 2012. Law Society of England & Wales. Hong Kong Law Society. Solicitors’ Family Law Association (now known as Resolution); Resolution’s international committee (1994-2012). Hong Kong Family Law Association. Lecturer, broadcaster and author on family law issues including SFLA/Resolution publications, Family Law in Europe and International Aspects of Family Law, and Divorce and Trusts Chapter of Sweet & Maxwell publication, Family Law and Practice in Hong Kong (1st, 2nd and 3rd Editions).
