Specialist surrogacy solicitors
We are the UK’s leading surrogacy lawyers, offering expert legal advice on surrogacy in the UK and abroad. Our surrogacy law firm has helped create more families through surrogacy, in more countries, than any other.
Leading surrogacy lawyers
Specialists in UK and international surrogacy
We are the UK’s most experienced surrogacy law firm. With a whole team specialising in surrogacy, and decades of experience forging creative new paths and winning change for the families we support, we are widely recognised as the UK’s leading surrogacy law experts.
But what really defines us is our values. We aren’t just lawyers, but solution-finders, champions of ethical surrogacy, and professionals who make different kinds of families possible.
Our international surrogacy legal services
International surrogacy is a complex process, but our experienced surrogacy lawyers can help you navigate it as smoothly as possible. Our legal services include:
- Advice on international surrogacy and managing risk
- Parental orders
- British nationality and citizenship
- UK passports and travel documents
- Adoption (after surrogacy)
Our UK surrogacy legal services
If you are building your family through UK surrogacy, our surrogacy solicitors can help you navigate the law smoothly and comfortably, from initial planning through to securing your status as your child’s legal parents.
We provide a range of legal services for UK surrogacy, including:
- Advice on UK surrogacy law
- Birth registration
- Parental orders
- Limbo period issues
- Specialist wills
What our clients say to us…
Want to speak to a surrogacy lawyer?
If you have any questions about our surrogacy legal services or want to discuss what legal support you might need, don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Pieces we’ve written about surrogacy
How we have made a difference to surrogacy
2022
Emergency help during the Ukraine war
We gave emergency help to all the British parents with babies born during the Ukraine war, securing government support, helping bring home 46 babies, and winning a Home Secretary decision to issue special visas to pregnant surrogates.
2020
Finding solutions during the COVID pandemic
We successfully lobbied the UK government to create an emergency passport process for stranded surrogate babies. We also persuaded the HFEA to permit the export of eggs, sperm and embryos overseas for surrogacy.
2019
Ending discrimination against single parents
We won a High Court declaration that surrogacy law’s exclusion of single parents was incompatible with human rights, prompting both a law change to allow single parents to apply for parental orders, and a wider Law Commission review of the law.
2018
First ever UK government guidance on surrogacy
We helped the Department of Health write the first ever official guidance for those going through surrogacy in the UK, and for health providers supporting them.
2015
Maternity leave for surrogacy
We ran a campaign from 2008 to 2015 and via a Private Members’ Bill in Parliament secured a special form of adoption leave for parents through surrogacy who, until then, had no right to time off work when their child was born.
2010
British nationality for surrogate children
We successfully persuaded the Department of Health to include a law change in new draft regulations which now enable children born through surrogacy to become British automatically when a parental order is made.
2008
Legal recognition for same-sex parents
Our founder Natalie Gamble was a leading voice in the fight to win legal parenthood for same-sex parents, a law change which enabled enable gay dads to access UK surrogacy and obtain birth certificates naming them both as parents via parental orders.
Legal guides: Surrogacy by destination
UK surrogacy
USA surrogacy
Ukraine/ Georgia surrogacy
Canada surrogacy
South America surrogacy
Europe surrogacy
Africa surrogacy
Asia surrogacy
Considering surrogacy and need practical help as well as legal advice?
Our sibling organisation, Brilliant Beginnings, is a non-profit surrogacy agency, founded by the NGA Law directors in 2013 to support safe ethical surrogacy.
Brilliant Beginnings offers personal advice consultations as well as managed surrogacy pathways in the UK and USA which include full legal support from NGA Law.
Need more information?
Browse our Knowledge Centre
Our free online Knowledge Centre contains legal guidance and links to resources you may need
International surrogacy (UK law)
It is increasingly common for intended parents to cross borders for surrogacy, to build their...
Surrogacy in the UK (UK law)
It is, and always has been, legal to enter into a surrogacy arrangement in the UK. However, the...
Parental orders (surrogacy law)
The UK legal solution designed for resolving parenthood in surrogacy cases is a parental order....
Still have questions?
If you need legal advice or want to make an appointment, feel free to get in touch. We offer meetings in-person in London or in the New Forest, as well as online.
We are here to help however we can.

