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Payne Hicks Beach featured in Spear’s Tax and Trust Advisers Indices 2026

Payne Hicks Beach featured in Spear’s Tax and Trust Advisers Indices 2026

Payne Hicks Beach is delighted to announce that its tax and trust specialists have been recognised in the latest edition of the Spear’s Tax and Trust Advisers Indices 2026.

The rankings recognise leading professionals advising ultra-high-net-worth and high-net-worth individuals, families and family offices on complex domestic and international tax, trust and succession matters.

These rankings reflect the firm’s longstanding commitment to excellence in private client work and its reputation for delivering tailored, commercially focused advice on some of the most sensitive and complex issues facing private individuals and families.

We congratulate all those recognised for this achievement. Their inclusion in this year’s Spear’s Indices highlights the depth of expertise across our private client practice and the strength of the firm’s offering for private wealth clients.

The list of rankings are:

Accountants and Tax Advisers Index

Benedict Jennings – Recommended

Melissa Solly – Recommended

Contentious Trust Lawyers Index

Richard Manyon – Top Recommended

Jessica Henson – Top Recommended

Clementine Dowley – Recommended

Charlotte Henshall – Rising Star

Tax Lawyers Index

Robert Brodrick – Top Flight

Frederick Bjørn – Top Recommended

Rosamond McDowell – Top Recommended

Sam Carver – Top Recommended

Basil Dixon – Top Recommended

Phineas Hirsch – Recommended

Clare Hetherington – Rising Star

Dean Ryan – Rising Star

Verity Sherwin – Rising Star

The Tax Lawyers Index showcases the UK’s top tax advisers, selected for their ability to counsel on everything from inheritance tax and capital gains tax to international structuring and estate planning. These advisers are trusted by some of the wealthiest families across the globe who have complex financial portfolios, cross-border assets and live in jurisdictions with evolving legislation.

The Contentious Trust Lawyers Index highlights the industry’s top advisers who navigate disputes arising from trustees and beneficiaries of a trust with expert precision and emotional intelligence.

The Accountants and Tax Advisers Index recognises the best advisers in the industry who are incredibly well-placed to offer detailed, confident advice while remaining cognisant of the needs and requirements of the UHNW community, having advised billionaires, multigenerational families and even some royalty.

The Tax and Trust Advisers Indices are part of Spear’s annual rankings of the top private client advisers and service providers to HNWs. These are drawn up on the basis of peer nominations, client feedback, telephone and face-to-face interviews, data supplied by firms, as well as information gathered by the Spear’s editorial and research teams. The Index includes practitioners who operate in jurisdictions around the world and forms the core of the Spear’s 500, the bible of HNW advisers which showcases the best private client advisors, wealth managers, lawyers and service providers to the high-net-worth sphere.


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Benedict Jennings
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Richard Manyon
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