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Andrew Barton

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About Andrew

Andrew is a partner specialising in the financial aspects of relationship breakdown. Named as a leader in his field in the Chambers and Partners guide to the legal profession and recommended in Legal 500 UK, Andrew specialises in high value and complex financial work on divorce. This includes specialist advice around claims against company assets, the division of pensions, tax and valuation, claims against trusts, and dynastic/inheritance issues. Many of Andrew’s cases involve international elements, to include claims against overseas property and disputes over forum/jurisdiction.

Andrew is listed in the Chambers High Net Worth guide for the representation he provides to business owners and other high net worth individuals in divorce and financial remedy proceedings

Recognised in the CityWealth Leaders List – an international guide to the most recommended and highly regarded figures in private wealth management for ultra-high net worth private clients. He is also listed in the 2025 Doyles Guide as a Preeminent leading family and divorce lawyer.

He attended University in Birmingham and qualified as a solicitor in 2003. He is a member of Resolution, an organisation of family law professionals committed to the constructive resolution of family disputes.

His recent work includes:

Representing a client on a choice of forum dispute between New Zealand and England
Removing a worldwide freezing injunction for a husband concerned around its impact on his company interests
Representing the beneficiary of a dynastic trust and partnership against a former spouse’s claims
Drafting and negotiating a group of nuptial agreements protecting shareholder spouses from future claims on divorce
Successfully restricting a former spouse’s claim against a large portfolio of international properties.
Negotiating a financial settlement that included provision for the breakdown and valuation of musician royalties.

Outside of work, Andrew enjoys spending time with his family, cycling and playing modern jazz piano.

Andrew is listed as a Leading Lawyer by Wiselaw.

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Andrew's Testimonials

Chambers and Partners (2026)

Legal 500 (2026) – Leading Partner

”I have been very impressed with Andrew Barton and his attention to detail, work rate and ability to manage the case and the client’s expectations. He is a very impressive family lawyer. The support he has had from his associates is equally impressive.’

Chamber High Net Worth (2025)

Chamber and Partners (2025)

Chamber and Partners (2024)

Chamber and Partners (2023)

Legal 500 (2023) – “Andrew Barton is the standout. He gets excellent work and does it very well. He is hardworking and runs the team very well.”

Chamber and Partners (2022)

Chamber and Partners (2021)

“Andrew and his team provided me with the honest and dignified approach to divorcing my husband that I was looking for. He did not try to needlessly point score and treated both my husband and I in an extremely professional way throughout the process. I would have no hesitation in recommending Andrew to anyone looking to exit their relationship with their dignity intact.”

Private Client, June 2021

Chamber and Partners (2020)

Legal 500 (2020) – is “technically excellent” and “isn’t afraid to take an inventive approach to litigate or settle cases and ensure the best for his clients”; he has a strong practice in financial cases involving international assets, financial provision following a foreign divorce and jurisdiction issues. Senior associate and “exceptionally hard-working solicitor.”

Chamber and Partners (2019)

“I feel fortunate that the failings of my previous solicitor led me to instruct you in the matter of my divorce – I do not think it would have reached as clean and fair a resolution for both parties had you not undertaken this work on my behalf. I very much appreciate the considered advice you provided and the resulting positive outcome for my family and I, despite the difficult situation and personalities involved”.

Private Client, January 2018

Chamber and Partners (2018)

Legal 500 (2018) – is “a fantastically energetic and efficient solicitor with excellent technical and legal knowledge and an ability to think outside the box.”

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