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Matthew Paton

Matthew Paton

High Net Worth 2025

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Ranked in 2 practice areas

Offshore: Trusts

Bahamas

1 year ranked

Chancery: Traditional

London (Bar)

1 year ranked

About

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Practice Areas

Matthew's practice encompasses advisory, drafting and litigation in the areas of trusts and estates (including trusts in divorce), related company law, insolvency, and civil fraud. He regularly appears in the higher courts in the UK.

Matthew also has a strong offshore practice in those areas and related private international law issues. As well as being called to the Bahamas Bar and BVI Bar, Matthew frequently advises and appears in matters arising from all of the principal offshore jurisdictions, including Bermuda, Cayman, the Channel Islands, and more recently Barbados, St Kitts & Nevis and Grenada, and in the Privy Council. He has also acted as an expert on Bahamian law in the UK and US courts.

Due to the nature of Matthew's practice he is comfortable acting as leader, or as part of a wider team in multiple jurisdictions.

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 High Net Worth

Offshore: Trusts - Bahamas

Band 2
Individual Editorial

Matthew Paton heads 5 Stone Buildings Caribbean. He regularly handles contentious trust matters on behalf of trustees, beneficiaries and protectors.

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Chancery: Traditional - London (Bar)

Band 4
Individual Editorial

Matthew Paton advises client on contentious and non-contentious matters relating to trusts and probate. He regularly works with clients on offshore matters, and has been called to the Bar in the Bahamas.

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Strengths

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  • Matthew Paton is very responsive, bright and pragmatic.

    Offshore: TrustsChambers High Net Worth

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

    Offshore: TrustsChambers High Net Worth

  • I found Matthew to be thorough, incisive and a very classy litigator.

    Chancery: TraditionalChambers High Net Worth

  • Matthew is a thoroughly competent individual. If I had to make a recommendation for a Bahamian practitioner, he would be one of the people I'd mention.

    Chancery: TraditionalChambers High Net Worth

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