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05 February 2025

Payne Hicks Beach reputation and privacy lawyers listed in The Spear’s Reputation Indices 2025

The 2025 Spear’s Reputation Indices profiling the best reputation lawyers and managers advising high and ultra-high-net-worth individuals has been published and features reputation and privacy lawyers from the Payne Hicks Beach Privacy & Media Law Team. 

Dominic Crossley, Hanna Basha, Andrew Willan and Nick Grant, are listed in this year’s rankings of the best reputation and privacy lawyers for high and ultra high net worth individuals, first published in Spear’s online on 4 February 2025.

Dominic Crossley, Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution and the Privacy and Media Law Team, is listed as a “Top Flight Reputation Lawyer” with a focus on ‘high profile clients, privacy and crisis’;

Hanna Basha, Partner in the Privacy and Media Law Team, is listed as a “Top Recommended Reputation Lawyer” with a focus on ‘media and crisis management’; 

Andrew Willan, Partner in the Privacy and Media Law Team is listed as a “Recommended Reputation Lawyer” with a focus on “modern-day reputation threats”; 

Nick Grant, Legal Director in the Privacy and Media Law Team is listed as a “Recommended Reputation Lawyer” with a focus on ‘navigating hostile media attention’. 


 Reputation and privacy are treasured by high net worth individual. When these are placed under threat the right reputation and privacy lawyer can be indispensable. In the era of misinformation and disinformation representation has never been more essential. 

The Payne Hicks Beach Media & Privacy Law Team are experts in the law relating to defamation, privacy, data protection and harassment and help protect clients from damage to their reputation and privacy, often drawing on the firm’s wider expertise to implement the best strategy and course of action. They engage with potential publishers before publication to stop and shape stories and also assist clients in disputes, where reputation is a key consideration. The team manages crises for high and ultra- high net worth clients and has been involved in some of the most eye-catching and important cases. 

The Spear’s rankings are drawn up on the basis of nominations by legal peers and opposite numbers in reputation management, telephone and face-to-face interviews, data supplied by law 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. 


The Spear’s Reputation Lawyers Index 2025, first published on 4 February 2025, can be found at https://spearswms.com/law/best-reputation-lawyers-high-net-worth-individuals/

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