Guy Olliff-Cooper

Practice Areas

Guy has a broad commercial Chancery practice, with a particular emphasis on civil fraud. He appears regularly as both sole and junior counsel in the High Court and Court of Appeal. He enjoys a busy offshore practice and is called to the Bar of both the BVI and DIFC.

Guy’s recent cases include:

•Unitel SA v Unitel International Holdings BV [2023] EWHC 3231 (Comm). A £580 million claim by the state telecoms company of Angola against its former chair (and daughter of the former President of Angola), Isabel dos Santos, for alleged breaches of her directors’ duties under Angolan law.

•Mex Group Worldwide Ltd v Ford [2023] EWHC 3394 (KB). An application for a freezing injunction under s.25 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 in support of proceedings in Scotland valued at €68.5 million based on an alleged unlawful means conspiracy to induce breach of a consent order.

•Therium Litigation Funding A IC v Bugsby Property LLC [2023] Costs LR 1641. An application by a litigation funder for an asset preservation order over £27.5 million of settlement proceeds.

Career

Called: 2015

Professional Memberships

Commercial Bar Association

Chancery Bar Association

Publications

Loose and Griffiths on Liquidators 9th Ed. (2019). Contributor.

Transaction Avoidance in Insolvencies 3rd Ed. (2018). Contributor.

Personal

BPTC, City Law School (Outstanding)

GDL, City Law School (Distinction)

BA (Hons), Philosophy & Theology, Oxford

Lincoln’s Inn: Hubert Greenland Scholarship, Buchanan Prize, Hardwicke Scholarship, Lord Bowen Scholarship