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About
Provided by Matthew Morrison
Practice Areas
Broad commercial chancery practice. Particular emphasis on civil fraud, company, partnership, insolvency, and trusts. Appearance in several judicial review claims and other public/administrative law matters.
Sole counsel in proceedings before the High Court, the Court of Appeal, the Grand Court and Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands. Junior counsel in large-scale commercial and chancery matters both onshore and offshore including in the Courts of the DIFC, Isle of Man and the BVI. Significant experience of assisting advocates before the Royal Courts of Jersey and Guernsey.
Cases include: Kijani Resources Limited (in Liquidation) v RBS; Isbilen v Hanson Asset Management; Re Chantacre Limited; TMO v Spectrum; Re Bulb Energy Limited; Croxen v GEMA; Salfiti v Seedo; Re Haz International; PNB v Srinivasan & Ors; Ridley v DIB; Re AMT Coffee Limited; IAP v Rosser; Re Galasys plc; Re Carlyle Capital Corporation; Isis Investments Limited v Kaupthing; BTA Bank v Ablyazov & Ors; Re Alhamrani.
Career
St John’s College, Oxford (Jurisprudence (MA (Oxon.), BCL); Attorney at Quin and Hampson (now Mourant Ozannes), Cayman (2005-06); formerly Junior Counsel to the SoS for BEIS.
Professional Memberships
Chancery Bar and Commercial Bar Associations; Association of Partnership Practitioners.
Publications
Chapters on CVAs, directors’ duties, directors’ liabilities in insolvency and disqualification in Gore Browne, Butterworths Corporate Law Service and Tolleys Company Law Service; PLC practice notes on minority shareholder rights and remedies and various private client topics; chapters on unfair prejudice, disqualification and insolvency in The Law of LLPs (Whitaker and Machell, 5th ed).
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Matthew Morrison is highly regarded for his work on company matters, specifically within shareholder and director duty disputes. He has also represented claimants in offshore disputes in the BVI and Cayman Islands.
Matthew Morrison prosecutes and defends high-profile fraud proceedings concerning such issues as unfair prejudice, breach of fiduciary duty, conspiracy and misappropriated assets. He has acted in cases relating to numerous overseas countries including those in North America and the Middle East.
Matthew Morrison acts in a range of offshore cases, including fraud, trusts and liquidation disputes. He regularly appears before courts in the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas. He also advises and acts for directors and liquidators in the Channel Islands.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Matthew is a formidable opponent, who gives absolutely as good as he gets whilst also being a very smooth and polished advocate."
"Matthew is really personable and clearly very engaged with the art of advocacy."
"He is able to charm the judge and he brings real energy into court."
"Matthew is very practical, user-friendly and open to dialogue with instructing solicitors and clients to discuss issues and set them out in an easily digestible way."
"Matthew is an expert in company disputes, who is both pragmatic and user-friendly."
"Matthew's written work is extremely thorough and he is able to communicate in a way that is unpompous. He's down to earth and clients can understand him."
"Matthew is a strategic genius, who is always on top of his brief."
"He brings real energy into court and is able to charm the judge. His written work is extremely thorough and clients understand him and react well to him."
"A very smooth and polished performer. He is a formidable opponent, who gives absolutely as good as he gets."
"Matthew is very commercially astute and thinks several steps ahead about how things will pan out. He provides outside-the-box thinking and is always very well prepared."
"Matthew is very detailed, thorough and always willing to talk through the issues and find solutions."
"Matt is very good at making himself available and very commercially astute, anticipating the longer game. He offers outside-the-box thinking that benefits the client."
"Matthew Morrison is very good with clients."
"Matthew is a formidable opponent, who gives absolutely as good as he gets whilst also being a very smooth and polished advocate."
"Matthew is really personable and clearly very engaged with the art of advocacy."
"He is able to charm the judge and he brings real energy into court."
"Matthew is very practical, user-friendly and open to dialogue with instructing solicitors and clients to discuss issues and set them out in an easily digestible way."
"Matthew is an expert in company disputes, who is both pragmatic and user-friendly."
"Matthew's written work is extremely thorough and he is able to communicate in a way that is unpompous. He's down to earth and clients can understand him."
"Matthew is a strategic genius, who is always on top of his brief."
"He brings real energy into court and is able to charm the judge. His written work is extremely thorough and clients understand him and react well to him."
"A very smooth and polished performer. He is a formidable opponent, who gives absolutely as good as he gets."
"Matthew is very commercially astute and thinks several steps ahead about how things will pan out. He provides outside-the-box thinking and is always very well prepared."
"Matthew is very detailed, thorough and always willing to talk through the issues and find solutions."
"Matt is very good at making himself available and very commercially astute, anticipating the longer game. He offers outside-the-box thinking that benefits the client."
"Matthew Morrison is very good with clients."
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