Payne Hicks Beach LLP
Payne Hicks Beach LLP specialises in handling HNW and UHNW clients in relation to the full gamut of immigration matters, drawing upon its related services in tax, media, reputation, and family to fully service this client base. Kathryn Bradbury leads on the work relating to business immigration, working closely with the firm’s corporate team in advising a number of businesses in the finance and tech spaces in addition to a range of HNW individuals. Bradbury is noted for her ‘unequalled knowledge of the workings of the home office’ and geographical breadth of her clients. Matt Ingham heads up matters concerning HNW asylum claims, and has technical proficiency across the commercial, political, and diplomatic dimensions of claims of this nature. Ingham has experience in all aspects of this work, with expertise that encompasses human rights issues, resisting extradition, challenging red flag notices, and corporate raiding, and associate Gintare Plistkovaite assists in relation to the full range of matters.
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- 'Kathryn Bradbury is exceptionally thorough in her approach; she has unequalled knowledge of the workings of the home office, considers all possible options for her clients, has excellent judgment, and, unusually for practitioners in firms who mainly represent high net worth individuals, she is expert in human rights and protection work and in immigration litigation.'
- 'Provides a brilliant service.'
- 'PHB’s immigration and human rights team provides a bespoke service to high net worth individuals who have exceptionally complex affairs, often defending multiple legal proceedings. The team know the law inside out and have strong strategic and tactical judgment.'
- 'Matt Ingham leads on immigration and human rights litigation at PHB, and he really is a superstar. He has particular expertise in immigration cases with an extradition element, and where clients’ assets are being targeted in the civil courts.'
- 'PHB’s business immigration team provides a bespoke service to high net worth individuals and businesses. They know the law inside out and have strong strategic and tactical judgment in dealing with the Home Office. The team are particularly good at collaborating within the firm, taking advantage of the firm being smaller than others in the marketplace.'
- 'Kathryn is a highly efficient, strategic thinker who is solution focussed, and has really succeeded in building a team who provide a rounded, personal service to clients who have high expectations. The immigration team under Kathryn’s leadership has grown into a highly efficient group who can be relied on to provide top quality legal advice.'
- 'One of the top firms in the UK for complex and high profile asylum work.'
- 'Matt Ingham is one of the leading asylum lawyers - he's brilliant. Kathryn Bradbury is also a first-rate immigration lawyer.'
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Kathryn is partner and head of the Citizenship & Immigration department. Kathryn practises across the spectrum of UK immigration and nationality law. She has extensive experience in applications under the investor, global talent, sole representative and innovator categories and associated applications for high net worth and high profile individuals. Her work in personal immigration extends to applications under the rules relating to partners, elderly relatives and children. She has significant expertise in applications for British citizenship and in complex applications and litigation.
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Matt is a partner in the Citizenship & Immigration department. Since 2010 Matt has been advising high net worth individuals with regard to complex International Protection claims involving political persecution and corporate raiding as well as Public Law and Human Rights based applications. Matt advises high-net worth clients in relation to political asylum, judicial review, appeals, complex human rights and removals cases. Matt's breadth of experience allows him to adopt an inter-disciplinary approach and ensures that he is well-placed to develop creative, strategic solutions to assist and protect clients, and to work alongside Payne Hicks Beach's reputation protection and civil litigation teams where required. Matt has acted for high profile individuals and has been at the forefront of significant cases in the asylum field. He has experience of making asylum claims whilst simultaneously defending extradition requests. Together with his colleagues in the reputation and civil litigation teams, he is also able to deploy different legal tools to assist the client such as making and defending civil proceedings based on allegations of fraud and defamation all linked to the underlying corporate raiding attempt. The cases he has worked on range across a number of jurisdictions. Matt's experience has also extended to challenging Interpol red flag notices. In addition Matt has a breadth of experience of human right-based judicial review applications with broad advisory and court experience in complex proceedings of this nature. Matt also works closely with the non-contentious Immigration team with regard to UK visas, British citizenship and Indefinite Leave to Remain applications, often with a discretionary element and for applications interlinking with on-going litigation. Matter is the author of numerous articles written for the legal press and contributes to media reports on cases and developments in the law of citizenship & immigration. Publications of note: articles and/or comments on business immigration law have appeared on CNN (comments on Russian general who oversaw atrocities in Syria led cluster bomb attacks on civilians in Ukraine) and in, for instance, 'Time Magazine' (commentary on the increasing pressure on Russian oligarchs in the UK), 'The Times' and 'The Law Society Gazette' (providing an insight on the Ukraine Russia Crisis), 'The Bar Council guest blog' (Nationality and Borders Bill), 'Daily Telegraph' (commentary on the need to set up a Ukraine resettlement scheme), 'Independent' (commentary on the abrupt suspension of the Tier 1 (Investor) Visa), 'Law Society Gazette' (The closure of the Tier 1 visa route), ' FE News' (Is the UK still top class when it comes to international education?), 'Law 360' (commentary on Assange victory leaving whistleblowers, journalists hanging).