Burges Salmon’s private client and private wealth expertise recognised in leading UK guide

Independent UK law firm Burges Salmon has been recognised as a leading private client law firm in the UK, with its national practice highly ranked in the 2024 Chambers and Partners High Net Worth guide, published today (18^th July). The firm achieved eighteen rankings, including six listed practice areas and 12 lawyers recognised as leading practitioners.

Published annually, Chambers High Net Worth differentiates the best professional advisers for UK and international private wealth by identifying and ranking law firms, lawyers and other professional advisers globally. Burges Salmon is recognised as a top tier firm, retaining all three of its Band 1 rankings for high-value residential work and private wealth expertise in National Leader (Outside London) and Bristol and Surrounds. It is also highly ranked for its work advising high net worth clients on family and matrimonial finance matters UK-wide and for its Private Wealth Disputes team in the South West. Burges Salmon is also listed amongst London’s heavyweights for private wealth law.

Competing at the top of the legal market, Burges Salmon is the law firm of choice for complex and specialist advice for private wealth. The firm has an expert pool of knowledge, helping its clients structure their affairs, preserve their property and pass it on to their successors, with the firm also providing advice on tax, divorce and nuptial agreements. The team is known for advising on complex cross-jurisdictional work and has a strong track record acting on some of the highest value and most complicated succession, tax planning and trust restructuring transactions in the UK and overseas. The firm also advises global financial institutions on the provision of trust and tax planning services. This is the latest in a series of accolades for the team who won the coveted Private Client Law Firm (Full Service) award at the 2023 eprivateclient Excellence Awards and was recognised as a Tier 1 firm in the 2023 eprivateclient Top Law Firms guide.

Suzanna Harvey, partner and head of Private Wealth at Burges Salmon, says: “We’re thrilled to be recognised once again as a leading law firm in the UK for private wealth advice, with Chambers’ rankings based on the high calibre work we’ve become known for, advising high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals, entrepreneurs, landowners, private banks, trustees and family offices. Importantly, the rankings are also based on what our clients think of us and we’re grateful for their trust and support. Our private client team is one of the largest in the country and it is very rewarding to see that our personable and engaging approach is one that is valued by our clients who see us as their life-long legal partner.”

The lawyers named as leading practitioners are:

UK-wide: Family/Matrimonial Finance: High Net Worth

• Alison Hawes
• Hannah Petherick
• Richard Handel
• Sarah Hoskinson

UK-wide: Immigration: High Net Worth Individuals

• Myra Leung
• Suzanna Harvey

South West: Private Wealth Disputes

• Kevin Kennedy

Bristol and surrounds: Private Wealth Law

• Jim Aveline
• Suzanna Harvey
• Tom Hewitt

London (Firms): Private Wealth Law

• Catherine de Maid
• John Barnett

National Leaders (outside London): Real Estate: High Value Residential

• Zoë Longman