Matthew Walker > Burges Salmon LLP > Bristol, England > Lawyer Profile

The ‘competent, diligent and dedicated’ team at Burges Salmon LLP provides ‘a standout offering of magic circle quality’ to its roster of high-profile clients, including multinational corporations, entrepreneurial businesses and high-net-worth individuals. David Hall, who has experience in financial services litigation, jointly leads the practice alongside Ann Metherall, while Andrew Burnette handles contractual disputes and professional negligence claims. Other key contacts in the group include transport and procurement specialist Chris Jackson, solicitor advocate Ian Tucker, Michael Ward, who focuses on shareholder disputes, and Brian Wong, who advises on procurement cases and was promoted to partner in May 2022. Matthew Walker has ‘excellent judgment’ and director Caroline Brown is commended as ‘responsive and knowledgeable’. Sian Edmunds left for an in-house role in January 2023.

The ‘excellent‘ team at Burges Salmon LLP combines experience in a range of coverage disputes with firmwide strength in the construction, transport, energy and financial services sectors. Matthew Walker leads the team from Bristol ‘with his great experience and commercial sensibility’, and is particularly experienced regarding construction insurance claims.  The team has notable experience in the financial services industry, working with the UK Financial Services Compensation Scheme.

Burges Salmon LLP has an established regulatory practice due to its broader financial regulatory expertise, with the firm’s regulatory team often acting on cutting-edge projects and new insurance products. The promotion of Martin Cook to partner in May 2022 enhances the team’s insurtech capabilities, joining Matthew Walker who heads the Bristol-based practice and his broad non-contentious insurance experience. Tom Dunn heads the work in funds and financial regulation and advises a number of clients in FCA and PRA related matters in the insurance sector.

Burges Salmon LLP‘s banking litigation practice consists of ‘very capable litigators‘, acting for clients across the full spectrum of disputes related to financial institutions, including derivatives, securitisations, and acquisition finance. Mis-selling cases, and providing advice to financial service providers who are under investigation by the FCA are also strengths of the unit. Team leader Andrew Burnette has a practice focusing on company and shareholder litigation, with in-depth knowledge of the banking sector. Further key contacts include David Hall and Matthew Walker.