Chambers Review
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Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth - UK-wide
What the Team is Known For
Payne Hicks Beach has a highly esteemed family law department that regularly handles high-value and sophisticated matters.
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Payne Hicks Beach is one of the country's pre-eminent family law firms and is home to a number of leading professionals in this field.
We offer our clients a discrete and bespoke service ensuring that our advice is tailored to the unique needs of each individual family. We are leaders in our field and are well versed in all forms of Non Court Dispute Resolution through which we endeavour to find solutions for our clients without matters proceeding to court. However, if matters do end up in court we are skilled and tenacious litigators with vast experience of appearing in all levels of the Family Court including the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
Our client base encompasses a broad range of individuals from city professionals, including accountants, lawyers and finance professionals to ultra high net worth individuals including celebrities and international royalty. We frequently appear in the law reports acting in relation to high profile and ground breaking cases.
Our work often incorporates an international dimension and we are experienced in dealing with cases that incorporate complex financial structures and domestic and international trust arrangements. We operate in all areas of family law including financial remedies, Part III, Nuptial Agreements, Schedule 1, private law children work, the relocation and abduction of children and modern family work including surrogacy, adoption and fertility.
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Payne Hicks Beach has a highly esteemed family law department that regularly handles high-value and sophisticated matters.
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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.
The firm is excellent and deserves its reputation as one of the elite practices in family law. The solicitors who work there, as well as being extremely talented lawyers, are also highly personable.
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.
The firm is excellent and deserves its reputation as one of the elite practices in family law. The solicitors who work there, as well as being extremely talented lawyers, are also highly personable.
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.
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Baroness Shackleton is lauded as a leading practitioner for sophisticated family matters. Baroness Shackleton has represented clients in some of the most high-profile divorce cases in the country.
Fiona Shackleton provides outstanding leadership and support of her family law team. Fiona's relationship with high net worth and celebrity clients is unequalled.
Fiona Shackleton has a wonderful strategic insight into how cases should be conducted. She is quick to identify the issues in the case and provides clients with realistic advice at the outset.
Fiona has a stellar reputation for a very good reason. She has an excellent way of thinking outside the box. She asks questions to make sure we think about things from all angles.
Ben Parry-Smith is a great litigator. Everything is done in a charming but tenacious way.
Ben Parry-Smith has seen it all. He is someone you most definitely want on your side.
Ben Parry-Smith is charming and razor sharp. He never leaves a stone unturned and always has brilliantly novel ideas to achieve the best possible results.
Nick Manners is regularly instructed by high net worth clients on complex matrimonial finance matters. He has recently taken over as the head of family at Payne Hicks Beach.
Nick Manners is extremely good. He is a level-headed solicitor who exudes confidence, an excellent team player, and very good with counsel and clients.
Nick Manners is hands-on but in a relaxed way. He really instils confidence in clients and has an unflappable, calm approach.
Nick Manners is a good lawyer, a good strategist and very good at keeping control of a team on cases.
Harriet Errington regularly deals with high-value, international matrimonial matters. Errington also has a strong practice in high-value, complex nuptial agreements.
Harriet Errington is very good at finding settlements and has a very calm and considered approach.
Harriet Errington has an enviable caseload, and she brings real energy and enthusiasm on behalf of her clients to great effect.
Harriet Errington works really hard for her clients.
Alex Curran is a well-regarded senior associate at Payne Hicks Beach who advises on complex matrimonial finance matters.
Alex Curran is a star of the future. He is bright, clever, engaged, driven and has a really good feel for cases.
Alex Curran is an excellent lawyer who is able to deal effectively with demanding clients.
Alex Curran is really hard-working, really industrious, and he cares a lot about his clients. Clients really warm to him as he is an affable, friendly person.
Camellia Buckmaster is a legal director in the family department at Payne Hicks Beach. Buckmaster assists with some of the team's most significant family cases.
She is a perfect example of outward serenity and confidence to the client, while being able to consistently get through huge volumes of work in the background, no matter the complexity or pressure.
Camellia Buckmaster is a totally committed solicitor providing excellent support to more senior and junior members of the family team.
Camellia Buckmaster is highly capable and charming. She has great attention to detail while always clinging to the big picture.
Isabella Savill is a senior associate in the Payne Hicks Beach family department. Savill is a key member of the team on many high-profile and high-value divorce matters.
Isabella Savill is a fantastic team player who punches well above her weight.
Isabella Savill is so hard-working and commercially aware at all times.
Katie Parkes is a legal director at Payne Hicks Beach. She regularly acts in divorce and financial remedy proceedings.
Katie Parkes is a technically first-rate lawyer with a huge breadth of experience of the most complex and demanding cases.
I never cease to be impressed by the breadth of her thinking.
Katie Parkes is a sunny character, belying a fierce determination for and loyalty to her client.
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Aoife Devereaux
Beatrice Caldwell
Charlotte Skea-Strachan
Evelyn Collins
Kate O'Callaghan
Katie Parkes
Kelly Gerrard
Kelly Gerrard
Laura Hallahan
Luke Scarratt
Marina Fitzalan Howard
Matthew Booth
Head of Department
Orlaith Devereaux
Rachel Tiffen
Sarah Williams
Simon Beccle
Victoria Hingston