Nick Manners
UK Guide 2025
Band 3 : Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth
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About
Provided by Nick Manners
Practice Areas
Nick is Head of the Family Department at Payne Hicks Beach.
Nick is a specialist family lawyer who focuses on all areas of family law, including issues arising from divorce, cohabitation and the financial consequences of a relationship breakdown. He is a skilled litigator with experience of cases at all levels and has been involved in a number of high profile and reported cases at both first instance and the Court of Appeal. Nick is one of the very few family lawyers to have worked on a case which was heard in the Supreme Court (successfully, in 2023).
Aside from his financial practice, Nick regularly advises on contentious children disputes involving contact, residence and relocation (including international relocation). He has also dealt with abductions, and on matters involving same-sex parents.
Nick regularly advises upon and drafts pre and post-nuptial agreements
He works for a variety of high net worth and ultra-high net worth clients on both contentious and non-contentious matters, including those with a complex international angle. He has experience of advising clients upon the breakdown of civil partnerships and Inheritance Act claims.
Nick has significant experience working on cases which involve Sharia Law, Islamic marriage and divorce.
Nick was part of the team that launched the Payne hicks Beach Mental Health & Family Breakdown initiative to support and protect clients during vulnerable periods of their lives, providing ground breaking peer-reviewed guides
Nick has been quoted on family law matters in the national media, including The Times, Daily Mail.
Career
Joined Payne Hicks Beach in 2008, qualified in 2010, promoted to Senior Associate in June 2017 and to Partner in December 2020. Nick was promoted to Head of the Family Department in May 2024.
Professional Memberships
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Publications
Industry and national publications.
Chambers Review
UK
Nick Manners is regularly instructed by high net worth clients on complex matrimonial finance matters. He has recently taken over as the head of family at the firm.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Nick is an absolutely first-rate lawyer. He is very calm and measured, he is incisive when he needs to be, he instils great confidence in the client and he is fantastic to deal with."
"Nick is very bright and has solid judgement. He is very personable with clients."
"Nick is excellent and is a very sophisticated lawyer."
"Nick is an absolutely first-rate lawyer. He is very calm and measured, he is incisive when he needs to be, he instils great confidence in the client and he is fantastic to deal with."
"Nick is very bright and has solid judgement. He is very personable with clients."
"Nick is excellent and is a very sophisticated lawyer."