Kathryn Bradbury

Spear’s Review

Regarded within the profession as one of London’s top immigration lawyers, Kathryn Bradbury, head of citizenship and immigration at Payne Hicks Beach, advises HNW clients across the field of migration law – including on UK immigration and citizenship, EU free movement and family-based applications.

She is used to working closely with family offices and wealth management organisations in making applications under the business categories of the UK immigration rules. Bradbury advises clients based in the Middle East, India, Turkey and the US, in addition to individuals within the arts and media industry, financial services and the technology sector.

‘We focus on highly complex, high-end work for clients who have complicated lives,’ she tells Spear’s. In the past she has represented clients in the first-tier and upper tribunals, often successfully challenging the rigidity of UK immigration rules.

Adviser Profile

Kathryn Bradbury is Head of the Citizenship & Immigration department and a member of the firm’s Management Board at Payne Hicks Beach.

Regarded as a leading immigration lawyer, Kathryn has been working in the immigration field since 2001, practising in the broad spectrum of UK immigration and nationality law.

Kathryn is known for her extensive experience in advising high-net-worth and high-profile individuals and their families, entrepreneurs and businesses in the UK and is a regular adviser to clients from the US, Middle East and India, amongst others, and from the arts and tech sectors. Kathryn has significant expertise in complex applications for British citizenship.

Kathryn also has expertise across a broad range of other immigration categories including EU law and family-based applications. She handles complex appeals and judicial reviews on a privately funded basis – an unusual feature for a business immigration practitioner and one which allows her to advise holistically on the best solution for clients.

A recipient of numerous accolades throughout her career, Kathryn is ‘hailed as the best immigration lawyer in London’ and recognised for ‘knowing her field inside out, being right at the cutting edge of all the changes that go on and for an encyclopedic knowledge of immigration law’. Kathryn is ranked in both Chambers & Partners High Net Worth and UK Guides and The Legal 500 UK in her specialist field of immigration law. She is regularly commended and noted for being ‘one of the most outstanding lawyers on immigration matters and brilliant with clients as she brings experience and calm to the most difficult cases – she is consistency and excellence personified’. Kathryn is a regular author and commentator on immigration law in the legal, industry and national press.