INDIVIDUAL PROFILE

Matthew Paton

High Net Worth 2026

5 Stone Buildings

Ranked in 2 practice areas

Offshore: Trusts

Bahamas

2 years ranked

Chancery: Traditional

London (Bar)

2 years ranked

About

Provided by 5 Stone Buildings

High Net Worth

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

Provided by Chambers

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 is a well-regarded advocate for traditional chancery disputes, particularly those involving trusts. He frequently appears in offshore and cross-border litigation.

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Strengths

Provided by Chambers

Matthew Paton was excellent in all respects. He was highly responsive and pragmatic. I would have no hesitation instructing him again.
Offshore: TrustsChambers High Net Worth
In terms of offshore Bahamian work, Matthew Paton has a unique advantage, having practised at the Bar of the Bahamas both as an advocate and as a trusted non-contentious adviser to large institutions and high net worth individuals.
Offshore: TrustsChambers High Net Worth
Matthew Paton is an excellent advocate and practitioner.
Offshore: TrustsChambers High Net Worth
Matthew is dual-qualified in the Bahamas and England. He gets into all the big offshore cases because he is called in Cayman and in the Bahamas, so he has a unique selling point. He is also really good on his feet.
Chancery: TraditionalChambers High Net Worth
Matthew Paton is an encyclopaedia on Bahamian trust law. He obviously has that core encyclopaedia of trust law which is very much his specialty, but now that he’s founded his own firm in the Bahamas, he’s an all-rounder.
Chancery: TraditionalChambers High Net Worth