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XXIV Old Buildings - Leading Commercial / Chancery Barristers
  • UK and international corporate insolvency including directors’ disqualifications
  • Statutory demands and winding-up petitions
  • Applications to set aside statutory demands and injunctions to restrain presentation of petitions
  • Receiverships
  • Company Creditors Arrangements (CVA)
  • Directors’ disqualification proceedings
  • Complex administrations and liquidations
  • Misfeasance and wrongful/fraudulent trading applications
  • Adjustments of antecedent transactions (including preference payments)
  • Transactions defrauding creditors under section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986
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“XXIV have superb strength in depth for insolvency work with a number of notable practitioners and a wide selection of juniors.”

Notable Insolvency - Company Cases

Manolete Partners Plc v Karim & Ors [2024] EWHC 2053 (Ch)A significant and factually striking claim for breaches of directors’ duties and associated wrongs arising out of a substantial insolvent liquidation. The judgment explores an array of legal issues, principles and authorities relevant to insolvency litigation more widely.

This is the leading case on s.423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 arising from a bank’s attempt to enforce two UAE judgments for a c.£20m claim against a Lebanese businessman and his family. 

Acting for the liquidator of a major pan-Caribbean insurance company defending proprietary claims made against it by a Suriname associate.

This matter concerned a number of alleged breaches including of fiduciary duties in the failure of a hedge fund.

Acted for the trustees in the bankruptcy of Boris Berezovsky’s insolvent estate agent against which estate a proprietary, and other, claims are being made by the former partner of the Russian businessman, who died in suspicious circumstances.

High Court/Business and Property Court claim from a promoter creditor pursuing claims in the liquidation of a ticket agency.

Insolvency – Company Barristers

image of Elspeth Talbot Rice , barrister

Elspeth Talbot Rice KC

Call 1990 | Silk 2008

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image of Michael Black, barrister

Michael Black KC

Call 1978 | Silk 1995

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image of Stephen Moverley Smith KC, barrister

Stephen Moverley Smith KC

Call 1985 | Silk 2002

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image of Francis Tregear, barrister

Francis Tregear KC

Call 1980 | Silk 2003

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image of Steven Thompson KC, barrister

Steven Thompson KC

Call 1996 | Silk 2015

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image of Lyndsey de Mestre KC, barrister

Lyndsey de Mestre KC

Call 1999 | Silk 2018

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image of Edward Cumming, barrister

Edward Cumming KC

Call 2006 | Silk 2018

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image of Adam Cloherty, barrister

Adam Cloherty KC

Call 2005 | Silk 2023

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image of Oliver Assersohn KC, barrister

Oliver Assersohn KC

Call 2003 | Silk 2024

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image of Helen Galley, barrister

Helen Galley

Call 1987

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image of Stuart Adair, barrister

Stuart Adair

Call 1995

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image of Bajul Shah, barrister

Bajul Shah

Call 1996

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image of Owen Curry, barrister

Owen Curry

Call 2009

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image of Hugh Miall, barrister

Hugh Miall

Call 2009

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image of Ben Waistell, barrister

Ben Waistell

Call 2015

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image of Alex Peplow, barrister

Alex Peplow

Call 2019

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image of James Kane, barrister

James Kane

Call 2021

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image of Niamh Davis, barrister

Niamh Davis

Call 2022

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Tim Koch

Call 2022

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