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Kathryn Bradbury, joint managing partner at Payne Hicks Beach, handles the ‘time-consuming and highly complex’ immigration and citizenship matters facing HNW and UHNW clients.

Regarded within the profession as one of London’s top immigration lawyers, Bradbury is an expert on UK policy, EU free movement and family-based applications, as well as the business categories of the UK immigration rules. 

She highlights that recent policy changes in the UK have made it a less attractive destination for some individuals and businesses, and, on top of that, the Home Office has introduced ‘a degree of complexity that there wasn’t perhaps a couple of years ago’.

However, the UK remains attractive for many wealthy individuals, she says, especially those from the US. To this end, Bradbury ensures clients are equipped to answer any question about their application, and steer through any challenge.

‘My work requires that level of knowledge of the complexity and litigation to navigate these more complicated, what would normally be straightforward, immigration routes,’ she says.

Adviser Profile

Kathryn Bradbury is a managing partner 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, among 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 encyclopaedic knowledge of immigration law’.

Kathryn is ranked in both Chambers and 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.