Paul McGrath KC

Practice Areas

Paul McGrath KC, who has been described as a “phenomenally clever man” and “an expert courtroom bruiser” who “wins hopeless cases”, practises primarily in the field of international commercial/chancery litigation. He regularly appears in both the Chancery Division and the Commercial Court and has appeared before the Court of Appeal, the Privy Council and the Supreme Court. He has been instructed in most of the recent heavy weight commercial fraud and asset recovery cases.

The international nature of much of his work has resulted in him also appearing as counsel before the Courts of the Grand Cayman, the British Virgin Islands, Turks & Caicos and the Isle of Man, and often being heavily involved in litigation before the Courts of the Channel Islands. He is also qualified to appear before the Courts of the Dubai International Financial Centre and has, unusually for an English KC, completed the Certificate to Practise in the DIFC Courts and Laws course.

His practice includes freezing and disclosure orders, tracing assets through various off-shore jurisdictions, asset recovery and claims involving issues as diverse as challenging the validity of discretionary off-shore trusts, breach of fiduciary and director duties, claims arising from alleged fraudulent hedge funds or avoiding transactions under the insolvency legislation to acting for the Premier League in football-related matters, for The Race Course Association in its dispute over exclusive satellite tv licensing of British horse racing and in a shareholder dispute amongst a well-known rock group.