Burgess Mee

Burgess Mee is an award-winning law firm providing comprehensive family law and private client services, with offices in Clapham and Liverpool Street. The firm is frequently recognised by external publications and accolades for its expertise and client care. Its client base includes UHNW and HNW individuals, high-profile figures, professionals, business leaders, particularly C-suite executives in the technology sector, and entrepreneurs.

The family law department advises on complex financial remedy matters arising from divorce and civil partnership dissolution, as well as private children disputes, often with international elements. The team has extensive experience in pre- and post-nuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements, domestic violence injunctions, and modern family law, including surrogacy, fertility, and adoption.

Reported cases include AH v BH [2024] EWFC 125, concerning prenuptial agreements and asset division; Cazalet v Abu-Zalaf [2023] EWCA Civ 1065, which addressed fresh claims following reconciliation; and X, Re (Catastrophic Injury: Collection and Storage of Sperm) [2022] EWCOP 48, involving lawful retrieval and storage of sperm in a catastrophic injury case.

The private client department advises on estate planning, complex wills, administration of estates, trusts, and Court of Protection matters, often working in partnership with other professional advisors to deliver integrated solutions.

The team comprises solicitors, paralegals, and operations staff, many of whom have trained and worked at leading firms. It includes four in-house mediators, two collaboratively trained solicitors, and two Resolution Together-trained solicitors, supported by two consultant lawyers. Burgess Mee places strong emphasis on professional development and wellbeing, offering mentoring, counselling services, mental health initiatives, and fertility-related support.

Burgess Mee also demonstrates a commitment to community engagement, partnering with the Drive Forward Foundation to support care leavers entering the workplace, providing voluntary advice at the family law clinic at Peckham Citizens Advice, and offering co-parenting resources through its sister platform, The Happy Co-Parent.

Languages
English

Staffing Figures
7 UK partners
21 other UK fee-earners