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About
Provided by Nico Leslie
Practice Areas
Art & Cultural Property; Banking and Finance; Commercial Litigation; Fraud – Civil; International Arbitration; Offshore; Professional Negligence.
Specialises in commercial litigation with particular expertise in banking and finance, insurance and reinsurance, fraud/asset recovery, jurisdiction and conflict of laws, professional negligence, art law, international and domestic arbitration. Chambers & Partners ‘Banking & Finance Junior of the Year’ 2022.
Recent practice includes a number of high-profile commercial cases, including acting in the US$1 billion PIFSS litigation for a Kuwaiti sovereign wealth fund, acting for the administrators of the NMC Group in multi-billion dollar litigation and arbitration across the world, and acting for successful investors in the Czech Photovoltaic arbitrations in The Hague and Vienna. Has particular experience of litigation in offshore jurisdictions (Bermuda, BVI, Cayman and St Lucia) and in Hong Kong and Singapore, and has extensive experience of international arbitration under the rules of numerous arbitral institutions.
Career
Called 2010; Lincoln’s Inn.
Professional Memberships
COMBAR.
Publications
Publications of note: co-author, ‘The Law of Assignment (3rd Edition)’ with Mr Justice Marcus Smith; co-author of chapter on ‘Choses in Action’ for Halsbury’s Laws of England; contributing editor of Gough on Company Charges (2nd edition, forthcoming); contributing editor, Restitution chapter, ‘Bullen, Leake and Jacob’s Precedents of Pleading’.
Personal
Leisure: Football, skiing, travel.
Languages: Fluent/Near Native French, Italian, Croatian/Serbian; Fluent Spanish.
Education: Eton College (King’s Scholarship); Christ’s College, Cambridge (2007 BA Modern Languages, Starred Double First); City Law School (2009 GDL, Commendation); City Law School (2010 BVC, Outstanding).
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Nico Leslie is a talented junior with a reputation for handling disputes relating to interest rate swaps and alleged market manipulation on behalf of leading financial institutions. In recent years he has made great use of his fluency in Italian to handle cases for international investment banks that have had disputes with Italian authorities. He is highly experienced in conducting cases in multiple jurisdictions, as evidenced by his appearance in cases in Bermuda and the BVI.
Nico Leslie of Fountain Court Chambers has acted for clients in several high-profile pieces of multi-jurisdictional litigation. His practice covers a broad range of areas, including professional negligence, insolvency litigation, and commercial disputes including fraud cases. Leslie's work predominantly takes him to the Cayman Islands, as well as other jurisdictions including Gibraltar, Hong Kong and the Middle East.
Nico Leslie is a strong choice for professional negligence claims in the Caymans and other offshore jurisdictions. He represents claimants and defendants in complex cases, including one concerning client confidentiality in the criminal trial of the Brazilian banker Kátia Rabello.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Nico is a rising star, who is an incredibly industrious and effective advocate."
"Nico is very good on the big cases, particularly those with an international element involving the Middle East."
"He is very commercial and always available."
"Nico is an extremely well-respected and high-performing junior."
"Nico is absolutely exceptional – a future KC in the making."
"He is phenomenal and I don't say that lightly. He's super bright, really easy to work with and a great team member - a dream to work with."
"Nico is a fantastic all-rounder."
"Nico Leslie is super user-friendly and has genuinely amazing drafting skills. He is someone you want on the team."
"A star of the future. He's exceptionally bright, astute and very charismatic. Nico provides really good insight and excellent technical legal work. He does a fantastic job."
"He's exceptionally bright, astute and doesn't get bogged down in legal detail. His skeleton arguments are a thing of beauty."
"Nico doesn't get put off when there is someone much more senior on the other side. He is persuasive, with a very easy manner of explaining things."
"Nico is a clever lawyer with an excellent client manner."
"Nico is very good with clients, responsive, smart, and a strong barrister overall."
"Nico is very intelligent and provides written work of exceptional quality. His explanations and thinking are always clear and he is good with clients."
"Nico is very commercially aware and regularly works on high-value matters. The standard of work he produces is always top grade and he is incredibly sharp and on top of the details."
"He is phenomenal, and I don't say that lightly. He's super bright, really easy to work with and a great team member - a dream to work with."
"Nico is a fantastic all-rounder."
"Nico Leslie is super user-friendly and has genuinely amazing drafting skills. He is someone you want on the team."
"A star of the future. He's exceptionally bright, astute and very charismatic. Nico provides really good insight and excellent technical legal work. He does a fantastic job."
"Nico is a rising star, who is an incredibly industrious and effective advocate."
"Nico is very good on the big cases, particularly those with an international element involving the Middle East."
"He is very commercial and always available."
"Nico is an extremely well-respected and high-performing junior."
"Nico is absolutely exceptional – a future KC in the making."
"He is phenomenal and I don't say that lightly. He's super bright, really easy to work with and a great team member - a dream to work with."
"Nico is a fantastic all-rounder."
"Nico Leslie is super user-friendly and has genuinely amazing drafting skills. He is someone you want on the team."
"A star of the future. He's exceptionally bright, astute and very charismatic. Nico provides really good insight and excellent technical legal work. He does a fantastic job."
"He's exceptionally bright, astute and doesn't get bogged down in legal detail. His skeleton arguments are a thing of beauty."
"Nico doesn't get put off when there is someone much more senior on the other side. He is persuasive, with a very easy manner of explaining things."
"Nico is a clever lawyer with an excellent client manner."
"Nico is very good with clients, responsive, smart, and a strong barrister overall."
"Nico is very intelligent and provides written work of exceptional quality. His explanations and thinking are always clear and he is good with clients."
"Nico is very commercially aware and regularly works on high-value matters. The standard of work he produces is always top grade and he is incredibly sharp and on top of the details."
"He is phenomenal, and I don't say that lightly. He's super bright, really easy to work with and a great team member - a dream to work with."
"Nico is a fantastic all-rounder."
"Nico Leslie is super user-friendly and has genuinely amazing drafting skills. He is someone you want on the team."
"A star of the future. He's exceptionally bright, astute and very charismatic. Nico provides really good insight and excellent technical legal work. He does a fantastic job."
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