Chancery: Commercial
UK Bar Guide 2025 : London (Bar)
Band 2
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This set's barristers are noted for their expert handling of complex and high-profile commercial chancery disputes, with the team offering significant strength in civil fraud and banking litigation. The team receives regular instructions to handle cases in offshore jurisdictions, and frequently undertakes complex shareholder disputes involving the Far East and the CIS. Regularly instructed on both sides of major commercial chancery disputes, barristers here have been involved in some of the most celebrated cases of recent years, including the USD5 billion NMC Healthcare PLC & Ors v Dr Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty & Ors proceedings, the Supreme Court case of El-Husseiny and another (Appellants) v Invest Bank PSC, and the USD2 billion oil and gas contracts case of Crescent Petroleum v National Iranian Oil Company.
Joe Ferrigno is the senior clerk.
Strengths
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"The clerks are very good; they are super-efficient."
"The clerks immediately respond to queries and are quick to provide solutions."
"All the clerks there are excellent, but Joe Ferrigno at the top is particularly good. He's highly commercial and thoroughly committed to helping you out whenever he can."
"The clerks are very good; they are super-efficient."
"The clerks immediately respond to queries and are quick to provide solutions."
"All the clerks there are excellent, but Joe Ferrigno at the top is particularly good. He's highly commercial and thoroughly committed to helping you out whenever he can."
Notable Practitioners
"Ciaran is absolutely excellent and one of the best juniors working at the Commercial Bar. Super responsive and very smart, he works well in a team and is extremely efficient."
"Paul is one of the best civil fraud silks in the market. A very reassuring advocate, he has a great style which allies confidence to humbleness."
"Richard has a beautiful rhetorical style and a lovely way about him in court – he is brilliant at dealing with tricky questions from the bench."
"Richard is very adept and astute in his client handling."
"He appears in some top, top cases and is a class operator."
"Christopher is very good at working with the team to get the best arguments out of the material in front of him."
"He is quick to respond, technically excellent and very collaborative in his working style. A future silk."
"Louise is excellent. She's on top of the detail and good at thinking commercially about the case from the client's perspective."
"Ruth is very bright and really on top of matters. She is a very safe pair of hands."
"She has excellent drafting skills, is a skillful cross-examiner and is the epitome of calmness and confidence."
"She's good at the paperwork and gives good advice; she has the confidence of the clients."
"Tim is incredibly clever but also very commercial. He is into the details and strategy, and is a man whose instincts you can trust."
"His is a crisp and concise form of advocacy that conveys a lot of information logically and neatly. He gets details across in a succinct way."
"A quick-witted barrister, who is clear and confident in his views."
"James's written work is really, really strong. He drafts in an incredibly crisp and clear manner, pulling together strands from legally and factually complex material into a single whole."
"James is just brilliant. He's a superbly compelling advocate, who gains the trust of the bench quickly."
"James is very user-friendly, very commercial and very charming. He has a lovely light touch to his advocacy."
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