JUNIOR PROFILE
Matthew Paton

Matthew Paton

Global 2026

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Ranked in 3 practice areas

Private Wealth: Trusts

UK

3 years ranked

Offshore (Bar)

UK

3 years ranked

General Business Law: Dispute Resolution

Bahamas

2 years ranked

About

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Practice Areas

Matthew's practice encompasses all aspects of traditional and commercial chancery including trusts and estates, related company matters (including directors duties, shareholder disputes), insolvency, and civil fraud and asset tracing. He regularly appears in the higher courts in the UK.

Matthew also has a significant offshore presence. He is called to The Bahamas and BVI Bars, and regularly advises and appears on matters from those, and all other principal offshore jurisdictions including Bermuda, Cayman, the Channel Islands, and the Privy Council (acting as the highest appellate court for those jurisdictions). More recently he has done work in Barbados, St Kitts & Nevis and Grenada. He has also acted as an expert on Bahamian law in the English and US courts (Florida and NYC).

Professional Memberships

Association of Contentious Trusts and Probate Specialists (CTAPS)

STEP (TEP)

Chancery Bar Association (IK Bar)

Bahamas Bar Association

BVI Bar Association

Chambers Review

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Chambers Global Guide

Private Wealth: Trusts - UK

Band 1
Individual Editorial

Matthew Paton is instructed in onshore and offshore jurisdictions and acts in both contentious and non-contentious trust and probate matters. He has significant expertise in matters involving validity of deeds, removal of trustees and liability issues.

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Offshore (Bar) - UK

Band 3
Individual Editorial

Matthew Paton is an impressively knowledgeable junior who offers clients near-unparalleled local expertise in private client matters, including trust and probate disputes. He is called to the Bahamas Bar and has experience appearing before courts across the broader Caribbean region.

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General Business Law: Dispute Resolution - Bahamas

Bahamas, expertise based abroad in UK
Individual Editorial

Matthew Paton of 5 Stone Buildings Caribbean is a respected barrister whose work has an emphasis on trust, probate and insolvency matters. He acts frequently for high net worth individuals and is also well versed in representing commercial clients. He is called to the Bar in both England & Wales and the Bahamas, with regular court appearances in both jurisdictions.

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Strengths

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  • Matthew is the go-to person for Bahamian trust disputes.

    Private Wealth: TrustsChambers Global Guide

  • I find Matthew to be thorough, incisive and a very classy litigator. He's eloquent and an all-round five star barrister.

    Private Wealth: TrustsChambers Global Guide

  • Matthew is very responsive and bright. He's an excellent barrister, who is very pragmatic.

    Private Wealth: TrustsChambers Global Guide

  • Matthew is thorough, incisive and a very classy litigator.

    Offshore (Bar)Chambers Global Guide

  • Matthew Paton has forensic knowledge and puts things in a language clients understand.

    Offshore (Bar)Chambers Global Guide

  • Matthew Paton has a creative approach. He is very good at being flexible and ensuring the bigger picture is taken into account.

    General Business Law: Dispute ResolutionChambers Global Guide

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