Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Corporate

Isobel is a Legal Director in the Corporate department.

Isobel acts for clients on a wide range of corporate matters, with a particular focus on acquisitions and disposals, company reorganisations, shareholder arrangements, lending and security documentation and strategic succession planning for family businesses, including the establishment of family investment companies.

Her clients range from large international companies to private owner-managed businesses, start-ups, family businesses and family offices, across a range of sectors, including property investment, manufacturing, publishing and hospitality.

Isobel also advises on commercial law matters including contractual arrangements between customers and suppliers, terms of business for suppliers of goods and services and  agency agreements and trade mark licence agreements.

Isobel’s practice includes acting for both individuals and companies on the sale and purchase of houseboats.

Isobel joined Payne Hicks Beach as a trainee solicitor in September 2015, qualified in September 2017. She was promoted to senior associate in 2021 and Legal Director in 2024.

The Law Society of England and Wales

Isobel was awarded a first-class degree in History from University College London and was included on the Dean’s List of top performing students. She initially pursued a career as a secondary school history teacher. She completed the GDL and LPC (both with distinction) before commencing work as a solicitor.