Burgess Mee has appointed Susie Barter as partner, with the family lawyer joining from Child & Child, where she was partner and head of the family law team. The appointment further strengthens the firm’s offering to high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients.
Barter brings more than 30 years’ experience in family law, specialising in complex financial remedy cases involving cross-border matters and sophisticated asset structures, as well as children matters. A trained mediator and collaborative lawyer, she also advises on wealth protection arrangements including pre- and post-nuptial agreements and co-habitation agreements.
Her career has included senior roles at Manches, Farrer & Co and Speechly Bircham, alongside running her own practice, Percival Rose & Co Ltd. She also spent two years as judicial assistant in the Court of Appeal and family lawyer to Lady Butler-Sloss in the High Court Family Division.
Peter Burgess, senior partner at Burgess Mee, said: ‘We are very pleased to welcome Susie Barter to Burgess Mee,’ adding that her ‘experience and insight will be an invaluable addition’ to the firm. Barter said: ‘Burgess Mee is one of the most innovative, client-focused family law firms in the country’ and added that she was ‘really excited to be joining the team’.
