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Basil Dixon
Spear’s Review
‘My clients come from all over the world, but with concentrations in India, MENA and the Far East,’ says the impressive and urbane Payne Hicks Beach partner Basil Dixon, adding: ‘There are also plenty of UK-only clients; this area of my practice is growing.’
Dixon has a well-earned reputation and seems the perfect fit for a firm with a broad-based tax, trust, estate and succession planning practice, noted for both its ‘traditional landed estate work’, and its ‘thriving and ambitious offshore arm’.
‘It all fits together,’ Dixon says, ‘and I think it’s important to do all of it. If you just do offshore you don’t necessarily get the other half of it.’
Dixon trained at Allen & Overy before becoming the first newly qualified solicitor at Maurice Turnor Gardner. His rise at Payne Hicks Beach has been just as rapid: an associate six months after joining and partner one year later in 2016.
Rank: Top Recommended

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