Chambers of John McDonnell QC
13-14 OLD SQUARE, RECEPTION AT 14 OLD SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN, LONDON, WC2A 3UE, ENGLAND
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- Work 020 7831 4445
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- 52 LONDON CHANCERY LANE
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David Oliver QC
- Tel:
- Work +44 20 7831 4445
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Position
Barrister specialising in Chancery/commercial and insolvency; notable cases include: as junior counsel; actions for liquidators of London & Country Securities in claims against former directors and auditors; acting for Johnson Firth Brown re its proposed takeover of Dunford & Elliot; acting for DGTF in relation to the references of ABTA, the Stock Exchange, RICS, in particular, in preparation of measures implemented as ‘Big Bang’; acting for liquidators of Court Line re its arrangement for the repatriation of travellers after its collapse; acting for working miners re the NUM strike (secured the removal of Arther Scargill et al as trustees of the NUM and the appointment of receivers to the union); acting for solicitors holding funds misapplied from Lloyd’s Names; in silk acting for Guinness in connection with the Distillers takeover, in civil claims against Saunders et al and before the Takeover Panel; acting for Johnson Matthey in claims against auditors following its insolvency; acting for Pricewaterhouse in connection with its role as auditors of BCCI, and claims arising after collapse of BCCI (represented Pricewaterhouse before the Bingham Inquiry, and in disciplinary proceedings brought by the Institute of Chartered Accountants, securing their stay); acting for liquidators of Polly Peck Plc in claims to recover misappropriated assets; acting for Reed Plc, Pearson Plc, Granada Plc, and Chargeurs Reunis in connection with the financing of BSB and subsequently B Sky B, and various pieces of litigation arising out of the financings; acting for Fayed brothers in connection with their litigation v Lonrho Plc; acting for Macmillan Inc and Swiss Bank Corporation in connection with claims arising out of the collapse of Robert Maxwell’s corporate empire; counsel in Banque Financière.
Career
Qualified 1972; Lincoln’s Inn, Hardwick Scholar; took silk 1986; standing junior counsel to the Director General Fair Trading 1980-86.
Languages
Fluent Spanish, good working and legal French.
