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Philanthropist heading for Britain’s biggest divorce payout (20 June 2014)

Date: 20/06/2014
Duncan Lewis, Family Solicitors, Philanthropist heading for Britain’s biggest divorce payout

A leading hedge fund boss and his wife are locked in battle over what could become the UK’s largest ever divorce settlement.

Chris Hohn and his US-born wife Jamie Cooper-Hohn are currently in dispute over the extent of Mr Hohn’s financial assets and their joint assets.

Mr Hohn – who is known as an activist investor who supports charitable causes – says that the assets of his Children’s Investment Fund, including subsidiary companies, are only valued at £64.3 million.

Lawyers representing Mr Hohn’s estranged wife say the fund’s assets could total as much as £470m, however – including the value of subsidiary companies referred to in court papers as TCI Group entities.

Mrs Cooper-Hohn also claims that the couple’s financial assets could be as much as £1.2 billion – and she is claiming half, as is usual in divorce settlements. The couple have four children, including triplets.

However, Mr Hohn says that his wife should only receive 25% of his estimated £64.3m assets, because of his own “special contribution” to their joint assets.

On Thursday (19/06/14), Mrs Cooper-Hohn lost a court appeal to present her estimates of the couple’s financial assets when the case is heard in the Family Division of the High Court in London, starting on 30 June.

Surrey-born Mr Hohn is a well-known philanthropist – the aim of his Children’s Investment Fund is to donate a percentage of the profits to improve the welfare of children in developing countries. Between 2006 and 2001, it is estimated that he donated up to £1bn to various charities

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