Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Private Client

Dean is a senior associate and Chartered Tax Adviser in the Private Client department at Payne Hicks Beach.

He advises on a broad range of personal tax, trust, estate and succession planning issues for UK and international clients. His work involves a variety of disciplines, from advising trustees in relation to the exercise of their powers and drafting trust and supplemental deeds, undertaking probate work and advising HNW clients in relation to their estate planning, to managing personal and trust tax disclosures both in the UK and abroad, dealing with cross-border restructurings of corporate and trust structures, and acting for charities in relation to funding endowments. As a Chartered Tax Adviser he is able to distil complex multi-faceted cases into clear and practical advice for clients and solve red flag issues before they develop further.  Dean regularly works alongside Payne Hicks Beach’s Family lawyers to provide trust, estate and tax advice within the context of divorce proceedings. He also advises executors on the administration of UK and international estates and has experience in creating and registering UK charities and liaising with the Charity Commission for England & Wales on behalf of trustees. He is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and is a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers.

Trained at Taylor Wessing LLP and joined Payne Hicks Beach upon qualification in 2016, promoted to senior associate 2020.

Law Society and Chartered Institute of Taxation.

Downing College, University of Cambridge (2008-2011) – MA (Cantab) Natural Sciences 2:1

BPP Law School (2012-2014) – Legal Practice Course (Distinction) and Graduate Diploma in Law (Commendation)

Christ’s Hospital School – (2006-2008) – A Level

Dean is a classically-trained pianist and organist, having trained as an organ scholar at Downing College, Cambridge, and regularly accompanies Sunday masses in Teddington and Sevenoaks.