Payne Hicks Beach LLP advises on white collar crime matters with frequent international dimensions, offering expertise from police station interviews through to trial. The team is skilled in crisis management and often secures no further action for clients, while also handling fraud, asset forfeiture, and restraint issues. Practice head Mark Jones is experienced in UK and cross-border regulatory and criminal investigations, including those involving the SFO and FCA.
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- ‘Mark Jones is hugely experienced in complex fraud cases. He has excellent judgment and is very good with worried clients.’
- ‘This firm is able to offer a broad range of expertise so as to offer the clients an all-around legal service.’
- ‘Mark Jones is a calm head who can digest a lot of information quickly to identify pertinent issues and advise his clients accordingly. He is someone you would want beside you in an emergency.'
- ‘The wider team at Payne Hicks Beach are able to offer a full service, including parallel civil, family, employment, PR litigation, which is incredibly important to HNWIs.'
- ‘Mark Jones is a superb solicitor with exceptional tactical awareness and ambition to succeed on his client's behalf. He is fearless in his representation and demands high standards.'
- ‘Mark Jones is the best of the best. He goes beyond for every client and every strategic decision. Approachable and clients love him.’
- ‘Payne Hicks Beach are a collection of stand-out individuals with real synergy.'
- ‘Mark Jones is particularly impressive. He is intelligent and focused on client success. He is able to unite the firm's longstanding strength in private client matters with the particular challenges that can arise in white collar matters.’
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Practice head
Mark Jones
Other key lawyers
Hanna Basha; Henry Watkinson