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About
Provided by Andrew de Mestre KC
Practice Areas
Commercial litigation and arbitration with particular emphasis on civil fraud and asset recovery; financial services and banking including CMBS and other securitisation disputes; insolvency and company law including proceedings under the Insolvency Act 1986, directors’ duties, and shareholder disputes. Recent cases include: Banca Generali v SCO [2023] EWHC 1732; Croxen & Ors v GEMA [2022] EWHC 2826; Banca Generali v CFE (Suisse) [2022] EWHC 1450; Re Bulb Energy [2021] EWHC 3735; GEHC v Gray [2021] EWCA Civ 123 and [2020] EWCA Civ 1668; Travelport v WEX [2020] EWHC 2670 (Comm); Stanford International Bank Plc v HSBC Bank Plc [2020] EWHC 2232; Deutsche Trustee Co Ltd v Duchess VI CLO BV [2020] EWCA Civ 521; Singularis Holdings Ltd v Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Plc [2019] UKSC 50, [2019] 3 WLR 997; Hosking v Apax Partners LLP [2019] 1 WLR 3347; Re Peak Hotels and Resorts Ltd [2019] 1 WLR 2145; Playboy Club London v BNL SA [2018] UKSC 43.
Career
Queen Mother Scholar of Middle Temple. Called March 1998. Joined 4 Stone Buildings in October 1998. KC in 2019
Professional Memberships
Commercial Bar Association, Chancery Bar Association (Main committee; Chair pro bono sub-committee).
Publications
Contributor to OUP's 'Annotated Companies Acts'; Butterworths Journal of International Banking & Finance Law.
Personal
Educated at Sherborne School, Dorset and Magdalene College, Cambridge (MA).