Birte supports the team to advise clients on a range of contentious and non-contentious workplace issues for companies, LLPs, professional partnerships, senior executives and partners. 

Her background is commercial litigation and she has supported market-leading experts in high-profile group litigation and shareholder disputes. At Fox & Partners, she supports the team on a wide range of contentious employment law issues, including dismissal, discrimination allegations, employee competition and disciplinary and grievance investigations and hearings.

Birte is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and the Association for Partnership Practitioners. 

Birte is fluent in German and Spanish. 

Birte qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in November 2023 and joined Fox & Partners in January 2024.  Prior to joining Fox & Partners, Birte worked as a Paralegal for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and at specialist litigation boutique, Signature Litigation.