Fertility & Surrogacy Experience & Expertise
Fertility & Surrogacy
Our leading experts in fertility & surrogacy law help you to get it right, from the beginning. We have over 15 years of legal experience, ensuring clients have smooth journeys to parenthood and frequently guide clients through the most complex domestic and international surrogacy and fertility issues.
Andrew Spearman leads our surrogacy team and he is frequently asked to give TV interviews, seminar presentations, webinars and podcasts on surrogacy law in England and the international regime.
He sits on the My Surrogacy Journey Advisory Board, is appointed to the Surrogacy UK Ethics Committee and works with clinics and other lawyers to champion good practice across the sector.
Across all our areas of expertise we offer you advice that is precise, relevant and practical; we give advice that provides solutions, not more questions. We believe that mastery of technical issues blended with imagination, flexibility and insight create solutions of real value.
Specialist Advice on Surrogacy in:
• Canada
• Cyprus
• Georgia
• Greece
• Nigeria
• United States
• Ukraine
Our expertise include:
Surrogacy
• Surrogacy planning legal advice (UK and International)
• Parental orders (and alternatives)
• Court applications
• Surrogacy disputes
• Specialist wills
• Employment advice for parental leave
• Nationality advice
Fertility
• Planning donor conception
• Co-parenting
• Acquiring parental rights
• Donor disputes
• Posthumous conception
• Embryo and gamete storage
• Transgender parenthood issues
Adoption/Parenting
• Step-parent adoption
• Securing parental responsibility
• Declarations of parentage
• Guardianship arrangements
• Ensuring inheritance assets for children born through surrogacy and assisted reproduction
Key Contacts
Andrew Spearman Partner
andrew.spearman@laytons.com
+44 (0)20 7842 8000
Navdip Dhariwal Associate Partner
navdip.dhariwal@laytons.com
+44 (0)20 7842 8000
Bianca Martin
Solicitor
bianca.martin@laytons.com
+44 (0)20 7842 8000
Katherine Martyn
Solicitor
katherine.martyn@laytons.com
+44 (0)20 7842 8000
