About

Provided by Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Payne Hicks Beach advises family offices that are domestic, international, single-family, multi-family, first-generation or multi-generation. Advice is provided from across the firm's corporate, tax, regulatory, financing and personal-planning practices.

Our expertise includes:

  • developing single-family and multi-family-office structures, including analysis of tax, regulatory, control and ownership considerations;
  • family-office restructuring, including family-investment-holding restructuring, succession planning and family-branch exits;
  • tax and succession planning for individual family members;
  • investment management arrangements, including investment-advisory agreements, investment policies and investment-fund allocations;
  • direct investments, including co-investments and private acquisitions and disposals;
  • employment and incentive compensation arrangements for family-office employees and executives;
  • advice on the administration of family offices and trusts;
  • charity and philanthropic projects; and
  • real-estate projects and debt-finance arrangements.

The team combines the family-office elements of its best-in-class private-client practice (trusted personal advisers for tax structuring, governance and family matters) with sophisticated front-foot corporate and funds advice.

Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

Family Offices & Funds Structuring - UK-wide

3
Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Payne Hicks Beach leverages its established private client and corporate practices to advise family offices on structuring investment funds, corporate governance, and tax and estate planning.

Notable practitioners

Max Baird-Smith is a key contact at Payne Hicks Beach for family office work.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

Members

Provided by Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Basil Dixon

Domonique McRae

Frederick Bjørn

Head of Department

Howard Taylor

Isobel Symonds

Jonathan Gatward

Max Baird-Smith

Head of Department

Peter Lamb

Phineas Hirsch

Robert Brodrick

Rosamond McDowell

Sam Carver