Ranked in Legal 500 (Insolvency and Pensions) and Chambers & Partners (Restructuring & Insolvency and Pensions)
“Raquel is terrific in difficult restructuring matters. She turns around work quickly, and provides clear and sensible advice. She is magnificent, and her touch of humour is much appreciated.” – Chambers & Partners UK Bar 2025
“Raquel Agnello gives clients very good advice and inspires confidence. She is very thorough, and clients like her because she tells it how it is. She is an asset.” – Chambers & Partners UK Bar 2025
“She provides excellent advice, delivered in a user-friendly fashion.” – Chambers & Partners UK Bar 2025
“Raquel is hugely experienced and knowledgeable. She is an excellent advocate and very impressive in a hearing. Despite her experience and seniority she is extremely approachable and inspires confidence in solicitors and lay clients.” – Legal 500 UK Bar 2024
“She is very knowledgeable, ultra client-friendly, practical and commercial.” – Chambers & Partners UK Bar 2024
“She can break down complex matters and provide commercial, strategic advice.”
“A go-to silk for personal insolvency – she’s fearsomely bright and an excellent advocate.” “She is very commercial, direct and tenacious in court. She is a creative and an aggressive strategist.”
“She is brilliant, provides really well-balanced advice and is extremely quick-thinking.”
“She has a fantastic technical ability and vast experience in knowing how to deal with difficult debtors and obstructive litigants.”
“She is an engaging, characterful advocate, conveying a passionate belief in her client’s case.”
“She is an outstanding advocate – bright and user-friendly.” “She is just on point, always on the ball and can see the case from every angle.”
“She creates novel solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems.”
“A first-choice barrister and a persuasive and compelling advocate.”
“An expert in cases involving pensions and insolvency.”
“She is very unstuffy, collaborative, flexible and a delight to work with, and she has a very engaging conversational manner in court which many judges respond well to.” “She probably knows more about the Pensions Regulator’s powers than anybody else.”
“She is fantastic, particularly on pensions with an insolvency angle. She is enormously user-friendly and easy to get on with.” “She’s very well known in both pensions and insolvency circles. She’s very client-friendly, bright, pragmatic and commercial.”
“She has a very good handle on how the court thinks and is a go-to lawyer for pensions insolvency issues.”
“Raquel is extremely bright and has a great ability to keep things focused. She is always able to break down complex matters and provide clear, strategic advice.”
“A tour de force in court, she is user friendly and approachable. Skilled in handling the most difficult of clients.”
“Very committed, imaginative, unstuffy.”
“She is very user-friendly, persuasive with judges and a strong court performer.”
“The personal insolvency guru – she is creative, thinks outside of the box, and on her feet she is fantastic.”
“Solicitors like her ability to instil confidence and she deals very well with anxious clients.”
“She is very client-friendly, practical and very easy to work with.”
In October 2012, Raquel was named ‘Barrister of the Year’ at the Insolvency and Rescue Awards,. In January 2012, she was selected as one of the ‘Hot 100’ by ‘The Lawyer’ and she was also shortlisted as Insolvency Silk of the Year by Chambers and Partners.
