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Matt Ingham

Matt Ingham
Partner
Citizenship & Immigration
020 7465 4339
Matt Ingham

Matt advises high net worth individuals with regard to complex International Protection claims involving political persecution and corporate raiding as well as Public Law and discretionary visa applications.

Matt advises high net worth clients in relation to political asylum, judicial review, appeals, complex human rights and removals cases. Matt’s breadth of experience allows him to adopt an inter-disciplinary approach and ensures that he is well-placed to develop creative, strategic solutions to assist and protect clients, and to work alongside Payne Hicks Beach’s reputation protection and civil litigation teams where required.

Matt has acted for high-profile individuals and has been at the forefront of significant cases in the asylum field. He regularly works alongside leading extradition teams from other law firms and works cooperatively with them to provide a second line of defence for clients in the form of a political asylum claim.  Together with his colleagues in the reputation and civil litigation teams, he is also able to deploy different legal tools to assist the client, such as making and defending civil proceedings based on allegations of fraud and defamation, all linked to the underlying corporate raiding attempt. The cases he has worked on range across a number of jurisdictions.

 

In addition, Matt has a breadth of experience in human rights-based judicial review applications with broad advisory and court experience in complex proceedings of this nature. 

He also works closely with the non-contentious Immigration team regarding UK visas, British citizenship, and Indefinite Leave to Remain applications, often involving a discretionary element. Such discretionary visa applications include Visit Visas, where there may have been historic allegations of criminality, Article 8 and Adult Dependent Relative applications, as well as late EU pre-settled and settled status applications.

Matt is listed as a “Top Recommended Immigration Lawyer” in the Spear’s Immigration Lawyers Index 2025.

Spears 500 2026 ranks Matt Ingham as ‘Top Recommended’ for Immigration Lawyers with a focus on Complex political and asylum cases. 

Chambers UK 2026 ranks Matt Ingham for ‘Immigration: Human Rights, Asylum and Deportation’. 

The Legal 500 UK 2026 ranks Matt Ingham as a ‘Leading Partner’ for ‘Immigration: Human Rights, Appeals’ and ‘Immigration: Personal’, and highlights Matt Ingham as a ‘Recommended Key Lawyer’ for ‘Immigration: Business’, ‘Immigration: Human Rights’, and ‘Immigration: Personal’.

 Chambers UK Guide 2025 and and Chambers HNW 2025 ranks Matt Ingham for ‘Immigration: Human Rights, Asylum and Deportation (UK-wide)’ and ‘Immigration: High Net Worth Individuals (UK-wide)’.  

The Legal 500 UK 2025 ranks Matt Ingham as a ‘Next Generation Partner’ for both the ‘Immigration: Human Rights, Appeals’ and ‘Immigration: Personal’ categories. 

The Spear’s Immigration Lawyers Index 2025 ranks Matt Ingham as ‘Top Recommended’ with a focus on complex political asylum.

The Legal 500 UK 2024 ranks Matt as a Next Generation Partner, he is described as “one of the leading asylum lawyers” and a superstar.

Chambers High Net Worth 2023 ranks Matt as a Leading Individual and describes him as: “amazing, really human, cares deeply about the cases and is very good at understanding issues regarding human rights law.” “aware of and sensitive to client concerns and can always be counted on to answer promptly and clearly and to offer practical advice.” and “extremely sharp and keeps the client at the centre of everything.”

Matt is ranked as a “Top Recommended Immigration Lawyer” in the Spear’s 500 2024 and is listed in the Spear’s Immigration Lawyers Index 2024.