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In a judgment demonstrating that judges will take behaviour into account when determining whether prenuptial agreements are enforceable, Ardal Loh-Gronager was even said to have allowed his mistress to use a Bentley that his wealthy wife had given him before they married.
Loh-Gronager, 35, had worked at Goldman Sachs before marrying Wei-Lyn Loh, 43, described as an “enormously wealthy” businesswoman and heiress, in 2019. After the couple married, he left the bank to oversee the refurbishment of their home in Primrose Hill, north London.
Loh-Gronager and his wife split up in 2023 after it emerged that the former banker had conducted “an expensively financed relationship … parallel to his marriage”.
A High Court judge was told that the husband paid cash to his mistress from a joint account with his wife, frequently disguising the payments as expenditure on “flowers”.
Under the terms of the couple’s prenup, Loh-Gronager was set to receive nearly £6.5 million on divorce. But his wife applied to the court to have the deal quashed over accusations that he had already received about £4 million by using their joint account for investments and expenses.
• Why more couples are now saying ‘I do’ to a prenup
She accused her husband of attempting to “undermine, harass and unsettle” her by instructing a “lacklustre” private investigator to pose as a journalist who was attempting to interview her. Loh-Gronager was also accused of having created a private Instagram profile to publish photographs of his wife.
As a result of that behaviour, Mr Justice Cusworth ruled that Loh-Gronager’s payout should be slashed by about £4 million in a judgment that said the husband had been guilty of “doctoring” emails to boost his claim in court.
The judge said that Loh-Gronager made regular payments to his girlfriend, including the transfer of £1 million on the day his wife was undergoing a therapy session before the end of their relationship.
“The fact that the husband began to take amounts from the joint account almost as soon as it was set up suggests that he has throughout the marriage been preparing the ground for as lucrative a separation as he could contrive,” the judge said.
The judge went on to rule that the husband had “callously and quite deliberately sought to cause upset to the wife in the hope that she would be persuaded to drop the case and leave him with the outcome he was seeking”.
• Why financial settlement after divorce is still a mess
During the hearing, the court was told that the couple had lived together for four years before marrying.
Loh-Gronager had led a successful career in banking — prior to joining Goldman Sachs he did stints at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse — but his wife was “enormously wealthy”.
The couple’s prenup provided for Loh-Gronager to receive a lump sum if they divorced, increasing with each year that they remained married. By the time of the divorce, that sum was set to be more than £6.4 million.
But the wife argued in court that the payout should be slashed as her husband had already received about £4 million of her money by transfers from joint accounts she financed and her own.
In his ruling — which was handed down in October but has only just been made public — the judge noted that it was “very clear that by the first weeks of 2023 the husband was engaged in an expensively financed relationship with his new partner, in parallel to his marriage. When he went on holiday with the wife, he directed staff to make his Bentley, a present from her before their marriage, available for his new partner to use.”
Banker who splashed joint account cash on mistress loses £4m prenup case
A City banker who drained thousands of pounds from a joint marital account to lavish on his mistress has lost £4 million in a battle over a prenuptial agreement.In a judgment demonstrating that judges will take behaviour into account when determining whether prenuptial agreements are enforceable, Ardal Loh-Gronager was even said to have allowed his mistress to use a Bentley that his wealthy wife had given him before they married.
Loh-Gronager, 35, had worked at Goldman Sachs before marrying Wei-Lyn Loh, 43, described as an “enormously wealthy” businesswoman and heiress, in 2019. After the couple married, he left the bank to oversee the refurbishment of their home in Primrose Hill, north London.
Loh-Gronager and his wife split up in 2023 after it emerged that the former banker had conducted “an expensively financed relationship … parallel to his marriage”.
A High Court judge was told that the husband paid cash to his mistress from a joint account with his wife, frequently disguising the payments as expenditure on “flowers”.
Under the terms of the couple’s prenup, Loh-Gronager was set to receive nearly £6.5 million on divorce. But his wife applied to the court to have the deal quashed over accusations that he had already received about £4 million by using their joint account for investments and expenses.
• Why more couples are now saying ‘I do’ to a prenup
She accused her husband of attempting to “undermine, harass and unsettle” her by instructing a “lacklustre” private investigator to pose as a journalist who was attempting to interview her. Loh-Gronager was also accused of having created a private Instagram profile to publish photographs of his wife.
As a result of that behaviour, Mr Justice Cusworth ruled that Loh-Gronager’s payout should be slashed by about £4 million in a judgment that said the husband had been guilty of “doctoring” emails to boost his claim in court.
The judge said that Loh-Gronager made regular payments to his girlfriend, including the transfer of £1 million on the day his wife was undergoing a therapy session before the end of their relationship.
“The fact that the husband began to take amounts from the joint account almost as soon as it was set up suggests that he has throughout the marriage been preparing the ground for as lucrative a separation as he could contrive,” the judge said.
The judge went on to rule that the husband had “callously and quite deliberately sought to cause upset to the wife in the hope that she would be persuaded to drop the case and leave him with the outcome he was seeking”.
• Why financial settlement after divorce is still a mess
During the hearing, the court was told that the couple had lived together for four years before marrying.
Loh-Gronager had led a successful career in banking — prior to joining Goldman Sachs he did stints at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse — but his wife was “enormously wealthy”.
The couple’s prenup provided for Loh-Gronager to receive a lump sum if they divorced, increasing with each year that they remained married. By the time of the divorce, that sum was set to be more than £6.4 million.
But the wife argued in court that the payout should be slashed as her husband had already received about £4 million of her money by transfers from joint accounts she financed and her own.
In his ruling — which was handed down in October but has only just been made public — the judge noted that it was “very clear that by the first weeks of 2023 the husband was engaged in an expensively financed relationship with his new partner, in parallel to his marriage. When he went on holiday with the wife, he directed staff to make his Bentley, a present from her before their marriage, available for his new partner to use.”
