Clementine Dowley

Clementine is a partner at Payne Hicks Beach specialising in private wealth disputes.

She brings a corporate law background to domestic and international trust and estate litigation and has particular experience of matters where trust and corporate issues intersect, including shareholder disputes in the trusts context and litigation involving complex trust/company structures. In addition, Clementine advises on the full range of inheritance disputes, including will challenges, removal applications and claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975. She also has experience of matters involving insolvency, fraud and asset tracing claims, including freezing injunctions and disclosure orders, and is regularly involved in advising trustees and beneficiaries on divorce proceedings and art and cultural property disputes.

Clementine won Chambers’ Rising Star award in 2026 and is ranked as Up and Coming in its HNW guide. She is also listed as a Recommended Adviser in Spear’s 500 and as a Next Generation Partner and Recommended Key Lawyer in The Legal 500 UK.

Clementine qualified as a solicitor in 2014 and practised at Weil Gotshal & Manges and Farrer before joining Payne Hicks Beach in 2022. She has Higher Rights of Audience.

Clementine is a member of STEP, ConTrA, and the Art Lawyers Association.