The firm has been awarded four leading Band 1 rankings with Immigration: High Net Worth elevated to the top tier and now joining Defamation Reputation Management: High Net Worth, Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth and Private Wealth Disputes who all maintain their top tier standings in Band 1.
These first-class rankings are complemented with a new firm ranking for Family Offices & Funds Structuring and retained strong firm positions in Private Wealth Law and Real Estate: High Value Residential, plus recognition in the fields of Art and Cultural Property Law, Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals and Expertise Based Abroad Private Wealth Law Denmark.
Used globally by family offices and professional advisers to wealthy individuals, the guide bases its market-leading recommendations, rankings and insights on independent research. The industry respected guide published on 24 July 2025 has recommended Payne Hicks Beach as a leading choice of adviser to high net worth individuals and its findings are testament to the firm’s commitment to a personalised, client centric, and expert-led approach. We are incredibly proud that the firm has been awarded top rankings and that its lawyers are recognised as leading experts in their specialist fields of law.
The Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2025 ranks and references our lawyers in the following practice areas:
- Art and Cultural Property Law – Till Vere-Hodge
- Defamation/Reputation Management: High Net Worth – Dominic Crossley, Hanna Basha, Andrew Willan and Nick Grant
- Family Offices & Funds Structuring – Max Baird-Smith
- Family/Matrimonial: Finance Ultra High Net Worth – Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia, Nick Manners, Ben Parry-Smith, Harriet Errington, Alex Curran, Camellia Buckmaster, Isabella Savill, and Katie Parkes
- Financial Crime: High Net Worth Individuals – Mark Jones
- Immigration: High Net Worth Individuals – Kathryn Bradbury and Matt Ingham
- Private Wealth Law – Robert Brodrick, Rosamond McDowell, Basil Dixon, Frederick Bjorn and Clare Hetherington
- Private Wealth Law Denmark – Frederick Bjørn
- Private Wealth Disputes – Richard Manyon, Jessica Henson, Clementine Dowley and Charlotte Henshall
- Real Estate: High Value Residential – Emma Copestake
Editorial quotes include:
“Payne Hicks Beach has the well-deserved reputation of being first port of call for high-wealth clients in cases involving complex asset patterns and complex issues of law.”
“Payne Hicks Beach has excellent, talented lawyers with the most extensive depth of experience that comes from consistently being instructed on the most complex and high-stakes matters.”
“Payne Hicks Beach has great strength in depth, with highly experienced partners alongside top-drawer associates.”
“The firm provides high-level, experienced and calm advice.”
“The people at Payne Hicks Beach are all extremely capable. They have great support and they get it right first time around.”
“Payne Hicks Beach are highly competent, responsive and technical proficient. I have been impressed by the grasp of complex matters shown by the team members.”
“Their approach is individually tailored and they come up with unique solutions.”
Payne Hicks Beach is a long-established old firm, but it has a young team: ambitious, driven and deadly effective. I think they are some of the best private client litigators in London.
“Payne Hicks Beach is excellent. It is a go-to team for private clients.”
“We associate PHB with its breadth and depth across a range of HNW/UHNW disputes work: from pure private client work through to international trust litigation, UHNW divorce and relationship breakdowns.”
“The firm has a depth of experience that it can draw upon when handling complex and sensitive matters.”
“With PHB there is a very client-focused service in all that the team does – ensuring the work is detailed, the response times are met and technical opinions or explanations to clients are concise.”
“The team is always available and happy to do what is necessary to deliver a high-quality service.”
“The Payne Hicks Beach team are excellent communicators and efficient.”
“In every case I have done with them, they have handled the case to a very high standard and provided all that was needed.”
The Chambers HNW 2025 Guide, including the rankings for Payne Hicks Beach, can be found here
