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Payne Hicks Beach LLP

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Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Payne Hicks Beach LLP

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(020) 7465 4300

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Provided by Payne Hicks Beach LLP
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Chair: Robert Brodrick

Partners: 46

Number of fee-earners: 138 (98 solicitors and 40 other fee earners)

Firm Overview: 

Payne Hicks Beach is a full service law firm providing specialist legal services to domestic and international high net worth private individuals and families, family offices and commercial clients. Its offices in Lincoln’s Inn, which it has occupied since its establishment in the 1730s, complement its long and distinguished heritage. The firm is well known for building very strong client relationships, often spanning several generations and for having a thoroughly twenty-first century approach.

The firm’s reputation has been built on its family and private client work: it is regarded as one of the very best of the small number of firms in the UK providing these specialist services at the highest level. This capability is matched with a top ranking expertise in key areas of law including: commercial, privacy & media, citizenship & immigration, dispute resolution, property, sport, white collar crime & regulatory, and surrogacy, fertility, adoption & modern family law.

Expert teams take the time to understand clients’ needs fully, advising clients objectively but sensitively to suit their particular circumstances or commercial realities, and to ensure the firm provides the absolute right advice. Whether an individual or a corporate client, the advice will be incisive, straightforward and solution led. Used to working under pressure, often in stressful and sometimes emotional situations, the firm handles difficult issues sensitively and is completely focused on protecting its clients’ interests.

Above all, the firm focuses on client care. Its structure, culture and commitment to outstanding client service ensures it can deftly handle complex problems for clients across their personal or business lives, delivering seamless advice across all its practice areas.

MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE AND CONTACTS 

Advising Vulnerable Clients: James Bacon/Emma Harris/Ben Parry-Smith/Sarah Williams/Jessica Henson ([email protected]/[email protected]/[email protected]/[email protected]/[email protected])

Agriculture & Rural Affairs: Simon Blackburn ([email protected])

Art & Cultural Property: Till Vere-Hodge ([email protected])

Banking, Commercial and Financial Services: Lucas Moore ([email protected])

Charities: Rosamond McDowell ([email protected])  

Children: Nick Manners/Sarah Williams/Ben Parry-Smith ([email protected]/[email protected]/[email protected])

Citizenship & Immigration – Business and Personal: Kathryn Bradbury ([email protected])

Citizenship & Immigration – Asylum, International Protection & Exception Cases, Human Rights: Matt Ingham ([email protected])

Commercial Property: Emma Copestake/Peter Lamb ([email protected]/[email protected])

Contentious Trusts & Estates: Richard Manyon ([email protected])

Corporate: Max Baird-Smith ([email protected])  

Corporate & Commercial Litigation: Lucas Moore ([email protected])

Data Protection: Dominic Crossley ([email protected])  

Defamation/Reputation Management: Dominic Crossley ([email protected])

Dispute Resolution: Dominic Crossley ([email protected])  

Education: Ane Vernon ([email protected])  

Employment: Peter McRoberts/James Townsend ([email protected]/[email protected])

Family/Matrimonial: Nick Manners ([email protected])  

M&A: Howard Taylor ([email protected])  

Partnership: Jonathan Gatward ([email protected])  

Privacy & Media Law: Dominic Crossley ([email protected])  

Private Client: Rosamond McDowell ([email protected])  

Private Wealth Disputes: Richard Manyon ([email protected])  

Private Wealth Law: Rosamond McDowell ([email protected])  

Property: Emma Copestake ([email protected])  

Property Litigation: Matthew Spring ([email protected])  

Residential Property: Emma Copestake ([email protected])  

Sport: Hanna Basha/Dominic Crossley/Jonathan Gatward ([email protected]/[email protected]/[email protected]/)

Surrogacy, Adoption, Fertility & Modern Family: Sarah Williams ([email protected])

Tax, Trusts & Probate: Rosamond McDowell ([email protected])

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Payne Hicks Beach LLP rankings

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London (Firms)
Agriculture & Rural Affairs
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
Agriculture & Rural Affairs
3
Agriculture & Rural Affairs
3
Band 3
Lawyers
Simon Blackburn
2
Simon Blackburn
Head of Agriculture & Rural Affairs
2
Band 2
Employment: Employer
1 Ranked Lawyer
Lawyers
Domonique McRae
Domonique McRae
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Employment: Senior Executive
1 Ranked Lawyer
Lawyers
Peter McRoberts
4
Peter McRoberts
4
Band 4
Family/Children Law
1 Department
2 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Family/Children Law
3
Family/Children Law
3
Band 3
Lawyers
Harriet Errington
2
Harriet Errington
2
Band 2
Sarah Williams
2
Sarah Williams
2
Band 2
Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth
1 Department
8 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth
1
Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth
1
Band 1
Lawyers
Fiona Shackleton
Fiona Shackleton
Star Individuals
Philip McGuirk
2
Philip McGuirk
2
Band 2
Ben Parry-Smith
3
Ben Parry-Smith
3
Band 3
Nick Manners
3
Nick Manners
3
Band 3
Harriet Errington
4
Harriet Errington
4
Band 4
Alex Curran
Alex Curran
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Camellia Buckmaster
Camellia Buckmaster
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Isabella Savill
Isabella Savill
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Real Estate Litigation
1 Department
2 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Real Estate Litigation
5
Real Estate Litigation
5
Band 5
Lawyers
Matthew Spring
5
Matthew Spring
Head of Real Estate Litigation
5
Band 5
Scott Goldstein
5
Scott Goldstein
5
Band 5
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Administrative & Public Law: Traditional Claimant
1 Ranked Lawyer
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Sheroy Zaq
Sheroy Zaq
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