Commercial
Our Team
Our commercial barristers advise and represent clients in the full spectrum of commercial disputes in the Business and Property Courts and in arbitrations.
We act in some of the most complex and high-profile matters, including in the Supreme Court and in cases at the forefront of the development of commercial law. Examples include the Post Office Group Litigation, leading cases in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal on parent company liability and on the enforcement of ICSID arbitration awards.
We are the Chambers of choice for a number of major multinational companies. We have recently represented Shell, BP, Unilever, Volkswagen, GSK, among others.
Our team brings particular sector acumen to the handling of complex commercial claims. This includes in insurance and re-insurance, life sciences, IT, oil and gas, banking and financial services, and in the automotive, telecoms, and transportation sectors.
A large number of our cases are international in nature. Our members are instructed in proceedings offshore, and routinely represent overseas clients in this jurisdiction.
COVID-19 Pandemic
Our team is well placed to assist with advice and representation in disputes arising as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impact.
Clients value our extensive experience in complex disputes concerning supply chains, with respect to business interruption cover, and as to the full range of contractual issues arising such as frustration, force majeure and material adverse change.
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Expertise
- Civil fraud, asset tracing and enforcement
- Commercial Chancery disputes, including shareholder, partnership and joint venture disputes and fiduciary liability
- Complex claims involving conspiracies and other economic torts
- Complex contractual disputes
- Disputes arising from corporate acquisitions and reorganizations
- Group actions and multi-party litigation
- Injunctive relief, including worldwide freezing orders, orders for the seizure of assets or for disclosure
- Insolvency
- Investment disputes including the sale and purchase of shares
- Multi-jurisdictional litigation, conflicts of laws and private international law
- Parent company liability claims
- Relief in support of foreign proceedings
- Sale of goods and chains of supply
Representative cases
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Liswaniso & others v Vedanta PLC & others (Supreme Court)
Leading Supreme Court judgment on jurisdiction and potential liability of parent companies in respect of alleged acts/omissions overseas.
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The Post Office Group Litigation (TCC)
One of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases, Civil Litigation Brief ‘case of the year’ 2019
Representing over 500 current and former postmasters in a widely publicised Group Action against Post Office to recover business losses said to result from failures in Post Office’s Horizon electronic point of sales (EPOS) and accounting system. Widely reported: BBC, Daily Mail, FT and Joshua Rozenberg.
Leading judgment ([2019] EWHC 606) on the developing field of relational contracts and duties of good faith in commercial contracts and on range of other complex contractual and agency issues. Successful judgment following trial of IT expert issues in 2019 ([2019] EWHC 3408). Further judgment ([2019] EWHC 871) with respect to failed application by Post Office to recuse a Managing Judge in Group Litigation.
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Micula v Republic of Romania (Supreme Court)
Acting for investor in one of the most significant recent cases regarding the interaction between investment treaty arbitration and EU law.
The Supreme Court ([2020] UKSC 5) unanimously allowed the investor’s cross-appeal relating to the enforcement of a £250m arbitration award, in the face of EU law objections, a matter with significant bearing upon the ICSID system.
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Libyan Investment Authority v various defendants (Chancery Division)
Acting for defendants in claim by Libyan sovereign wealth fund concerning joint venture arrangements.
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Google Data Breach Class Action
Google Data Breach Class Action
A representative action on behalf of approximately 5.4 million iPhone users issued against Google November 2017.
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Re Stirling Mortimer Global Property Fund PCC Ltd (Commercial Court)
Acting for Guernsey registered property investment fund in proceedings in the Commercial Court for the recovery of misappropriated assets and in associated claim concerning the liability of auditors.
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Chevron Corporation v Amazonia Recovery Limited (Supreme Court of Gibraltar)
Acting for litigation funders in high profile proceedings in Gibraltar brought by Chevron Corporation with respect to a US$18bn judgment for environmental liabilities in Ecuador in the Lago Agrio litigation.
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Ethiopian Airlines v Honeywell (Commercial Court)
Commercial Barristers
Charles Gibson QC
Call: 1984 Silk: 2001
Richard Mawrey QC
Call: 1964 Silk: 1986
Peter Susman QC
Call: 1966 Silk: 1997
Lawrence West QC
Call: 1979 Silk: 2003
Prashant Popat QC
Call: 1992 Silk: 2008
Patrick Green QC
Call: 1990 Silk: 2012
Geraint Webb QC
Call: 1995 Silk: 2013
Oliver Campbell QC
Call: 1992 Silk: 2014
Malcolm Sheehan QC
Call: 1993 Silk: 2015
Toby Riley-Smith QC
Call: 1995 Silk: 2016
Andrew Kinnier QC
Call: 1996 Silk: 2018
Henry Warwick QC
Call: 2007 (Solicitor: 2000) Silk: 2020
Angus Withington QC
Call: 1995 Silk: 2021
Adam Heppinstall QC
Call: 1999 Silk: 2021
William Hibbert
Call: 1979
James Palmer
Call: 1983
Jonathan Steinert
Call: 1986
David Brook
Call: 1988
Julia Smith
Call: 1988
Tim Green
Call: 1996
Noel Dilworth
Call: 2001
James Purnell
Call: 2002
Nazeer Chowdhury
Call: 2002
Kathleen Donnelly
Call: 2005
Abigail Cohen
Call: 2005
Matthew Richardson
Call: 2006
Jonathan Lewis
Call: 2007 (Solicitor: 2005)
Thomas Evans
Call: 2008
Lucy McCormick
Call: 2008
Hannah Curtain
Call: 2010
James Williams
Call: 2010 (Solicitor: 2006-2010)
Rachel Tandy
Call: 2010
Ognjen Miletic
Call: 2010
Chloe Campbell
Call: 2011
Christopher Adams
Call: 2014
Lia Moses
Call: 2014
Arnold Ayoo
Call: 2014
Celia Oldham
Call: 2015
Reanne MacKenzie
Call: 2016
Harrison Denner
Call: 2016
Beatrice Graham
Call: 2016
Hazel Jackson
Call: 2017
Ben Norton
Call: 2017
Jack Castle
Call: 2018
Thomas Mallon
Call: 2019
William Moody
Call: 2020
