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Burges Salmon LLP

Family/Matrimonial

UK Guide 2026 : South West


Burges Salmon LLP

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About

Provided by Burges Salmon LLP

Our family law and divorce lawyers are recognised nationally and internationally for providing expert advice on high-value and complex financial settlements on divorce and other relationship breakdowns.

We take a practical, solution driven and sensitive approach to resolving issues, with litigation as a last resort.

If you need a divorce lawyer who can handle complex financial settlements and child arrangements, our team is here to help.

As well as settlements, our divorce solicitors are also very experienced in negotiating pre and post-nuptial agreements to protect assets, both where England and Wales is the only jurisdiction and where the parties have international issues to consider.

We also have considerable experience in successfully resolving disputes concerning child arrangements and cross-border relocations.

Whether acting for high and ultra-high-net-worth individuals or advising on divorces with complex assets – such as trusts, corporate structures, partnerships, pensions, farming businesses, or international factors – we provide clear advice and an exceptional service.

We work closely with our colleagues who specialise in tax and trusts, corporate, real estate and employment, to provide the full scope of expertise required by our clients.

Our family lawyers are all members of Resolution, a national family law group dedicated to cooperative and effective dispute resolution.

Chambers Review

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Family/Matrimonial - South West

Band 1

Band 1


What the Team is Known For

Burges Salmon has a superb reputation for representing local, national and international clients in relation to marital and relationship breakdowns. The group regularly advises on financial remedies involving farms, pensions, trusts and businesses. It deals with wealth protection agreements, including prenuptial and postnuptial arrangements, and frequently assists clients with cross-border matters. The firm also maintains a private law children practice.

Strengths

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  • They are the Rolls-Royce of services and a beautiful outfit in the West Country.

    Family/Matrimonial respondentUK
  • They are brilliant over there. All of their files are completed to a very high standard, and their drafting and advice is always spot on. Their client care also goes the extra mile.

    Family/Matrimonial respondentUK
  • They are absolutely at the top of the pile for the service they deliver, and all of the lawyers in the team are first rate.

    Family/Matrimonial respondentUK
  • They are excellent on high net worth cases and cases with complicated jurisdiction issues.

    Family/Matrimonial respondentUK

Notable Practitioners

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  • Star IndividualsSarah Hoskinson
    Star IndividualsSarah Hoskinson

    Sarah Hoskinson

    Sarah Hoskinson frequently advises on financial settlements, as well as prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. She also has notable pensions expertise.

    • She is really good at supporting quite vulnerable clients.

      Family/Matrimonial respondentUK
    • She has great oversight and a strategic overview, with a good sense of the points to run and all of the detail on a case.

      Family/Matrimonial respondentUK
    • Sarah is a mega-brain when it comes to pensions: she understands the most complicated financial aspects of divorce.

      Family/Matrimonial respondentUK
  • Band 1Hannah Petherick
    Band 1Hannah Petherick

    Hannah Petherick

    Hannah Petherick regularly advises on high-value financial remedies and nuptial agreements. She is additionally experienced in advising on children arrangements.

    • Hannah is very committed to her clients and very personable.

      Family/Matrimonial respondentUK
    • Hannah is patient, kind and commercial.

      Family/Matrimonial respondentUK
    • She's exceptionally good at what she does. She is pragmatic and sensible, but she doesn't give up at all and wants to get the right results.

      Family/Matrimonial respondentUK
    • Hannah appears to glide through her cases with steely determination and composure.

      Family/Matrimonial respondentUK
    • Hannah leads from the front in expertise and is a very detail-focused lawyer.

      Family/Matrimonial respondentUK

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South West

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