Matt Ingham

Matt is the Head of the firm’s Citizenship & Immigration team. He 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.