Trusted Legal Support For Critical Situations
At Payne Hicks Beach, we provide expert legal advice to manage and respond to crises, both in the workplace and for private family matters. Our crisis offering for in-house legal teams is trusted by leading businesses. We navigate sensitive, fast moving events with serious consequences.
We are here to help you navigate high stakes criminal and corporate investigations, negative media exposure, high profile litigation and employment disputes, cyber breaches and immigration and asylum issues for executives.
We advise on pre-emptive and reactive strategies to protect and restore reputations. Working in tandem with external consultants and internal teams, we ensure all external communications are consistent with your legal obligations and strategic goals.
Our lawyers offer calm, collaborative, strategic and commercially focused advice to protect your legal position and your reputation.
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If you are facing a live crisis or preparing for potential reputational risk, speak to our expert lawyers today. Our crisis communications legal team offers swift, strategic advice that safeguards your position while helping you communicate with confidence. Available 24/7.
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Why Choose Payne Hicks Beach for Crisis Response Services?
Payne Hicks Beach has unique experience and expertise to help clients overcome even the most challenging crisis. Working as a multi-disciplinary team, we are able to respond to a vast array of client crises. We are used to acting in the most sensitive situations protecting our clients in circumstances where their safety, reputation, freedom, information and finances may be at risk.
The firm is ranked in the UK-wide Crisis Management category, reflecting its work advising high net worth individuals and corporates on a wide range of complex and sensitive matters, including privacy and media relations, criminal defence investigations, immigration and commercial litigation.
We provide legal support during crises involving privacy and media law, litigation and dispute management, regulatory investigations, employment law, cybersecurity incidents and support for urgent immigration and asylum cases.
As a multi-service firm, we have unique experience and expertise to help clients overcome even the most challenging crisis. We are able to offer comprehensive support for a vast array of client crises.
What distinguishes Payne Hicks Beach is our ability to collaborate and combine technical legal excellence with strategic, real world insight. Our advice is board-ready, media aware and designed for critical situations where every word and every decision counts. We act with the highest levels of confidentiality and authority, offering legal clarity and calm during moments of pressure and complexity.
Meet Our Team of Award-Winning Specialists
Lucas Moore
Partner, Chair
Litigation, Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
020 7465 4319
Dominic Crossley
Partner
Litigation, Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
020 7465 4306
Hanna Basha
Partner
Litigation, Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
020 7465 4371
Mark Jones
Partner
Defence & Investigations
020 7693 5875
James Townsend
Partner
Employment
020 7465 4300
Matt Ingham
Partner
Citizenship & Immigration
020 7465 4339
Scott Goldstein
Partner
Litigation, Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
07904 916 241
Credentials & Accreditations
Payne Hicks Beach is recognised for its expertise in crisis management in the latest edition of the Chambers Crisis & Risk Management Guide 2026, with strong commendations for the firm and its leading practitioners, Dominic Crossley and Hanna Basha.
- In the latest edition of the Chambers Crisis & Risk Management Guide 2026, Dominic Crossley and Hanna Basha were named as leading practitioners.
- Dominic Crossley is head of the dispute resolution department at Payne Hicks Beach and has acted for various high-profile individuals as well as multinational companies. The matters he has advised on have included privacy and reputation and breach of confidence and family privacy.
- Hanna Basha is a well-known figure in the reputation and crisis management practice area. She specialises in media and crisis management for high-profile individuals and corporates and is she is highly regarded for acting in a number of significant defamation and privacy cases.
Articles
6 July 2026
Jamie Hurworth and Hanna Basha, both leading Privacy and Media experts at Payne Hicks Beach, exa...
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Payne Hicks Beach recognised in Chambers Crisis & Risk Management Guide 2026
29 June 2026
In the latest edition of the Chambers Crisis & Risk Management Guide 2026, Payne Hicks Beach is ...
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UHNW clients could struggle to secure legal representation – Mark Jones and Hanna Basha for Spear’s Magazine
11 May 2026
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, we advise on pre-emptive and reactive strategies to protect and restore reputations. Working in tandem with external consultants and internal teams, we ensure all external communications are consistent with your legal obligations and strategic goals.
Yes, our team is experienced in managing unwanted media attention, defamation, data breaches, and misuse of private information. We work swiftly to stop the publication of damaging or inaccurate material, obtain injunctions where necessary, and handle reputational recovery.
Yes, our lawyers advise on responding to investigations by UK regulators including the FCA, SFO, ICO and HMRC. We support internal communication strategies, ensure compliance with disclosure obligations, and coordinate messaging with legal defence and public affairs.
If you are facing a live crisis or preparing for potential reputational risk, speak to our expert lawyers as soon as possible for swift and strategic advice.
