Devon based law firm, Barton Law, is pleased to announce that the company has been named Specialist Finance Law Firm of the Year for 2023 by SME News Awards.
Based in Exeter, Barton Law is dedicated to providing the very best legal advice to clients who are interested in taking out lifetime mortgage or reversion plans. The Equity Release market can be difficult to navigate but Barton Law’s reputation, experience and proficiency in the sector is well known across the South-West region and beyond.
The awards are organised by SME News who support small and medium sized businesses with useful insight, start-up and entrepreneurial advice, general business updates as well as latest news and trends. Their awards programme is deliberately designed to be based on merit and not just to favour the large law firms out there. They recognize talent, achievement and commitment and showcase the ‘best of the best’ within individual categories such as ‘Specialist Finance Law Firm’.
The SME News awards are in its fifth year now and are well known as having a rigorous research and winner selection process. The results are then published annually in the prestigious UK Legal Awards Celebratory Magazine.
Commenting on the win, Barton Law, Managing Director, Peter Barton said: “Winning awards like this is an important part of the legal industry because it represents recognition of hard work, knowledge and ability. It also demonstrates that what we do is of a standard that the judges feel is better than other law firms out there. That’s always a great feeling for myself and the wider Barton Law team, who are looking forward to displaying our award as soon as it arrives.”
A new law firm – Barton Law Limited, launches today to provide equity release legal services direct to consumers and via independent financial advisers across the UK - www.bartonlawltd.co.uk
The newly regulated company is headed up by Peter Barton, who moves to Barton Law from UK law firm Ashfords. He brings with him a team of over 40 lawyers and legal assistants as a part of a divestment by Ashfords of its equity release business following a strategic review.
Peter led the equity release business at Ashfords for over 20 years. During that time it became one of the largest teams of its kind in the country winning national awards for the quality of its work in equity release and reversion plans. The team has completed over 200,000 equity release transactions advising clients directly and as a chosen provider of hundreds of regulated independent financial firms across the UK.
Barton Law will support clients across the UK from its head office in Exeter using cutting edge technology, which includes the market leading inCase app to provide real time information to clients on the progress of their transactions.
Managing Director Peter Barton said:
“We’re incredibly proud to be launching our new firm today and I’d like to thank all of our team, specialist advisors, suppliers and Ashfords for their support in making it happen and ensuring a smooth transition that maintained continuity of service for our existing clients.
“We launch at a time of increasing demand for equity release or lifetime mortgages with lending surpassing £4.8bn and the number of mortgage products doubling over the last year. We help our clients who are looking at this option for a wide variety of reasons - from helping out family members to tax planning to putting more funds into their retirement pots.”
Alison Shiell, Operations Director at Barton Law explained:
“Given that clients who are releasing equity are doing so for personal reasons, it is important they get a personal service from us. Our clients are not case numbers and the people here at Barton Law have names not team numbers. We shape our IT and service delivery around that promise and look forward to significantly growing our business as Barton Law.”
Law firms Porter Dodson and Kitsons, consultants iBoss, corporate finance broker Business Finance Services Ltd, accountants Azets and marketing agency Fuel advised on the set-up of Barton Law.
For an interview with Peter Barton or further information on this release please contact:
Martyn King
Fuel
For background on the new firm and video of Peter talking about his reaction to the launch you can take a look here.
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