Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Private Client

James advises on trust and succession law and tax. His work covers estate planning, trust variations, contentious trust and estate work, heritage property taxation, charities and the commercial use of trusts.

His clients are UK and overseas individuals and families, landed estates throughout the UK, and trustees, trust protectors and beneficiaries in the UK and abroad.

James is the English contributor to Bloomsbury’s International Succession Laws and was one of a number of contributors to Maggioli Editore’s Il Trust Nella Nuova Legislazione di San Marino.

James is listed in the Citywealth Leaders List 2022 in the Honours List for Contentious Trusts and Landed Estates.

Qualified 1991, partner at Lawrence Graham 2000, joined Payne Hicks Beach 2006, partner 2006.