I am regularly instructed on interim relief applications including worldwide freezing orders, proprietary injunctions, Norwich Pharmacal and other disclosure applications. I am one of a small number of leading barristers in asset recovery of cryptoassets. I also have a significant insolvency law practice with wide experience of antecedent transaction claims such as transactions at an undervalue, preference and breach of duty claims.

A sizeable portion of my practice is civil fraud or fraud in connection with insolvency companies. Cases I have acted in include investment fraud, cold calling/misrepresentation cases, romance scams, hacking, digital asset scams, and misappropriation cases by fiduciaries including directors. As well as assisting with pre-action matters and litigated claims, I also am increasingly instructed for claimants and defendants in contempt proceedings. Please also see asset recovery section below.

I have extensive experience of contentious insolvency cases, having acted in a wide range of matters for directors, bankrupts and former bankrupts, interested parties such as family members claiming an interest in assets, as well as acting on the other side for liquidators, trustees in bankruptcy and funders. Cases including setting aside high value statutory demands, applying for injunctions to restrain winding up petitions, contentious winding up hearings, claims against company directors and bankrupts, claims for a beneficial interest in the home and civil restraint orders.

I have experience of a wide range of professional negligence cases, mainly acting for claimants. Cases have included a failure of a tax-efficient debt pushdown scheme, conveyancing solicitor failings, negligent property surveys and valuations, a failure to advise on merits, evidence or settlement offers in litigation, breach of regulatory standards by brokers and financial intermediaries and inadequate advice on sale purchase agreements and other corporate transactions.