About Us

Larianae Notaries is a brand new Scrivener firm of multi-lingual notaries in central London.

Founded in 2020 and having become a Scrivener firm in 2022, we are committed to excellent specialist service, transparency and customer satisfaction.

We specialise in verifying, authenticating and recording documents, and have dedicated and specialist and tested knowledge in certain foreign languages and jurisdictions.

As notaries we work for individuals and businesses who have to provide documents to overseas officials; you can find out more about notarisation here.

Our notaries have worked with private clients ranging from film stars through to couples seeking to get married. They have also acted for multinational corporations ranging from major banks to global media companies.

We speak your language and those of the officials who need to approve your documents, reducing the risk of your documents not being accepted.

We can undertake legalisation of the documents on your behalf once notarised.

We also offer translation services for all kinds of documents.

About us

Our People

Lara Gouveia Simonetti

Scrivener Notary and director

Lara completed her BA (Hons) in Jurisprudence at Brasenose College, Oxford, which included a year of Italian Law at the University of Siena.

She then moved to Brazil where she obtained experience of Brazilian law in conjunction with the University of Brasília.

On moving back to the UK, Lara undertook varied legal work, before studying for and training as a Notary Public at the largest Scrivener Notary firm in London.

She completed the Notarial Practice Course with Distinction at University College London in July 2019 and became a Scrivener Notary in April 2022, having been the first supervised notary in the history of the Worshipful Company of Scriveners.

Lara is an active member of the Society of Scrivener Notaries and the Notaries Society, and is currently a Council Member of the latter. She is also a tutor at the Notarial Practice Course at UCL, teaching Notarial Practice to future notaries.

In addition to English, Lara is a native speaker of Portuguese and Italian, and is fluent in Spanish and French.

When not at work, Lara enjoys literature, choral music and the violin.

Edward Heaton

Notary Public and Consultant

After obtaining an MA (Hons) in Modern History at the University of St Andrews, Edward completed the Common Professional Examination at City University before being called to the Bar in 1999.

He then became a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales in 2007 and a Notary Public in 2022, as well as being admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in Ireland in 2023.

Edward has over 25 years of experience in legal practice relating to financial services. In addition to being a Chartered Fellow of the CISI, Edward is a full member of STEP, with extensive knowledge of trusts and offshore legal matters. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute of UK & Ireland, with wide-ranging board-level expertise in UK corporate governance and related legal practice.

In addition to English, Edward speaks French and dabbles in Portuguese.

With family ties to Portugal, outside work, Edward is keenly involved in the inauguration of the Lisbon area’s first croquet club.