Restructuring and insolvency
Corporate insolvency
Advising insolvency practitioners on a range of issues that arise in administrations and liquidations including: in court and out of court appointments, validity of appointments, antecedent transactions, assignment of claims, office holder duties, adjudication of proofs of debt.
Personal insolvency
Advising on various bankruptcies including presentation of statutory demands and bankruptcy petitions, and advocating at a number of County Court bankruptcy hearings.
Enforcement Receivership - multi-party High Court proceedings
Advising court appointed receivers on the recovery of over £65 million derived from the proceeds of a theft committed in 2002. The action has involved numerous High Court applications (including worldwide freezing orders) and multiple sets of connected proceedings in the UK and elsewhere in order to determine competing third party interests to certain property located in a variety of jurisdictions.
Overseas Restraint Order
Advising the liquidators of an Isle of Man company in relation to the recognition by the Serious Fraud Office of a Lithuanian overseas restraint order.
Enforcement of security
Advising a Latvian bank on the enforcement of its security and its rights as a creditor in the deceased estate of a Russian oligarch and its dealings with the trustees in bankruptcy.
Commercial litigation
Enforcement Receivership - multi-party High Court proceedings
Advising court appointed receivers on the recovery of over £65 million derived from the proceeds of a theft committed in 2002. The action has involved numerous High Court applications (including worldwide freezing orders) and multiple sets of connected proceedings in the UK and elsewhere in order to determine competing third party interests to certain property located in a variety of jurisdictions.
Banking litigation
Advising the defendant financial institution in relation to a claim for declaratory relief arising out of the post-2008 Irish banking crisis.
Korean textile factory contractual dispute
Advising a Korean textile factory on its defence of a defective and off-spec goods claim from a UK-based customer.
Trademark infringement claim
Acting for a well-known group of companies seeking High Court injunctive relief for UK and EU trademark infringement against a Hong Kong company.
Dispute resolution
Enforcement Receivership - multi-party High Court proceedings
Advising court appointed receivers on the recovery of over £65 million derived from the proceeds of a theft committed in 2002. The action has involved numerous High Court applications (including worldwide freezing orders) and multiple sets of connected proceedings in the UK and elsewhere in order to determine competing third party interests to certain property located in a variety of jurisdictions.
High value LCIA construction arbitration
Acting for the claimant Korean joint venture in a LCIA arbitration between contractors relating to the multi-billion dollar construction costs of a nuclear power plant in the UAE.
Offshore drilling contract dispute
Acting for a Venezuelan state controlled entity in an UNCITRAL arbitration relating to a dispute arising out of an offshore drilling contract.
Indian commodities dispute
Acting for the claimant, an Indian zinc smelter, in a LCIA arbitration relating to the quality of goods supplied by one of the largest international trading and mining companies.