Carolina Marín Pedreño

Carolina Marín Pedreño is a Partner and Head of the Children department at Dawson Cornwell, where she has been a partner since 2009, and is dual-qualified as a Spanish Abogado (2003) and an English solicitor (2006). She is a pre-eminent international children law specialist with unmatched experience in Hague and non-Hague child abduction proceedings, leave to remove applications, cross-border child placement, surrogacy, and the registration and enforcement of foreign contact orders—particularly in matters involving Spain and Latin American jurisdictions, where she advises as a native Spanish speaker with an unrivalled network of international contacts. A Band 1 practitioner in Chambers UK 2026 for Family/Children Law: International Abduction, Adoption and Surrogacy, she is also Vice President of the International Academy of Family Lawyers, President of the Human Rights Commission of the Union Internationale des Avocats, and founder of ASIME, the Spanish association of child abduction professionals.