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Susanne Batchelor
Susanne is head of the Brodies personal team and has been a partner for over 17 years. She has extensive experience advising high net worth individuals and families on complex estate and succession planning, often acting as a trusted adviser to families over the long term.
Her main areas of practice include succession planning, wills, inheritance tax advice, asset protection, trusts, family investment companies and executries. She works closely with clients and their other professional advisers to help protect private family wealth, structure their affairs and plan effectively for future generations.
Susanne has a particular expertise in cross-border estates, advising individuals and families with assets and interests across multiple jurisdictions. She has a particular interest and expertise in Scottish US cross-border estate and succession matters and regularly works with solicitors and other professional advisers in the UK and internationally. She has significant experience in handling complex executries, including high value estates and those with cross border issues.
Susanne also has a large trust practice, including personal injury and charitable trusts, and a longstanding interest in matters involving adults with incapacity. She is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in trust law.
Susanne is based in our Edinburgh office.
Living Brodies' values
Working collaboratively with the rest of the team, Susanne makes sure that clients are always kept up-to-date on costs, progress and timescales.
Highlights
- An accredited specialist in trust law and a member of ATT and STEP.
- Presented to STEP members in New York on Scottish succession law and Scottish limited partnerships.
- A recognised specialist in the UK for setting up family limited partnerships.
Rankings
- Ranked by Chambers & Partners High Net Worth as Band 1 for Private Wealth Law
- Ranked as a leading individual within the Legal 500 Guide in relation to Personal tax, trusts and executries.
Susanne is an amazing private client lawyer. She explains everything in a manner impossible not to understand. She uses plain language and is concise. Her team and clients love her. Susanne is a force of nature.
Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2026, Private Wealth Law
Susanne is a most trusted and objective adviser.
Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2026, Private Wealth Law
Susanne is excellent. She is fantastic with clients, builds great rapport and provides first-class delivery.
Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2025, Private Wealth Law
Susanne Batchelor is such a caring and dedicated legal professional, as keen to develop and grow her team members as she is in looking after the needs of clients. She works incredibly long hours to turn around matters quickly, and I think her personality shines through with client feedback being around her nature.
Legal 500 2026
Susanne goes above and beyond to be a trusted partner. I enjoy her down-to-earth attitude and the way this comes over to clients.
Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2025, Private Wealth Law
Susanne Batchelor is enormously experienced, warm and able to guide on complex positioning.
Legal 500 UK 2025
