The firm has been awarded a prestigious Band 1 ranking for Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth, reaffirming our position as a market leader in this highly specialised field. Alongside this top-tier accolade, we have secured rankings in Defamation/Reputation Management, Family/Children Law, Agriculture & Rural Affairs and Real Estate Litigation, together with a new ranking in Charities. Reflecting our longstanding reputation and specialist capabilities in all these areas of law.
In addition, 26 of our lawyers have been individually ranked for excellence across 15 practice areas, underscoring the expertise of our lawyers and the calibre of talent across the firm.
These results reflect our commitment to delivering exceptional client service, deep sector legal knowledge, and a personalised, expert-led approach. We are especially proud to see both our established leaders and emerging talent recognised in one of the UK’s most respected legal directories. These firm-wide rankings underscore the strength and breadth of our legal offering, reinforcing our position as one of the UK’s leading law firms.
This recognition follows our recent top-tier rankings in The Legal 500 UK 2026 and Chambers HNW 2025, both of which also saw a record number of rankings for both the firm and our lawyers. We are grateful to our clients and peers for their continued trust and support as we continue to set the standard for legal excellence.
Chambers UK 2026 is one of the UK’s leading legal directories and this year’s results are an affirmation of the quality of our work, client service and the firm’s strength and breadth of expertise, incorporating the experience of our highly skilled lawyers and specialist teams. We are proud that our unparalleled expertise, as well as our emerging talent, is acknowledged in one of the legal sector’s key benchmarks. The law directory’s findings reflect the firm’s commitment to a personalised, client-centric and expert-led approach.
Chambers UK 2026 ranks our firm and lawyers top in the following practice areas:
Firm and Lawyer rankings:
Agriculture and Rural Affairs – Rupert Burchett
Charities – Neasa Coen
Family Finance: Ultra High Net Worth – Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia, Nick Manners, Ben Parry-Smith, Harriet Errington, Camellia Buckmaster, Isabella Savill, Alex Curran and Katie Parkes
Defamation/Reputation Management – Dominic Crossley, Hanna Basha, Andrew Willan and Nick Grant
Family/Children Law – Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia and Harriet Errington
Real Estate Litigation – Matthew Spring and Scott Goldstein
Lawyer rankings for our Partners:
Kathryn Bradbury for Immigration: Business and Immigration: Personal
Matt Ingham for Immigration: Human Rights, Asylum and Deportation
Mark Jones for Crime
Peter McRoberts for Employment: Senior Executive
Ane Vernon for Education: Individuals
Lawyer rankings for our Legal Director and Senior Associate:
Domonique McRae for Employment: Employer
Sheroy Zaq for Administrative & Public Law: Traditional Claimant
Editorial quotes include:
“The Payne Hicks Beach team has real depth of talent.”
“The firm has wonderful client care, accessibility and patience with clients who are in highly emotional states. It is excellent for individual expertise and specialist knowledge across the board.”
“The whole team there is excellent. They have the talent and resources.”
“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 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’s solicitors are very pragmatic, good listeners and speedy in execution.”
“I have nothing but praise for Payne Hicks Beach. They are very client aware.”
“Payne Hicks Beach does such a fantastic job, its lawyers are thoughtful and insightful.”
“The Payne Hicks Beach team have immense attention to detail and thoroughness.”
“They are highly experienced, commercially aware, quick, decisive and able to think laterally.”
The Chambers HNW 2026 Guide, including the rankings for Payne Hicks Beach, can be found here
For more information, please contact us on 020 7465 4300 or your usual contact at Payne Hicks Beach.
