Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Corporate

Max Baird-Smith is a partner and Head of the Corporate department.

Max advises on a broad mixture of corporate and commercial transactions, including acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, private-equity investments and fund raisings. He advises across a range of sectors, including consumer and retail, education, energy, financial services, infrastructure, media & telecommunications, natural resources, property and technology. 

He has represented sovereign wealth funds, significant groups and private capital funds across his career and brings this experience to the firm’s family office and high-net-worth client base.

He has extensive experience handling complex cross-border matters, regularly working across Europe, the US, the Middle East and Africa.

Max speaks French and  is qualified in England and Wales (solicitor) and a member of the French bar (non-practising). A partner since 2013, Max is a graduate of Oxford University and qualified at Slaughter and May in 2005.