Chambers of Edward Cohen
LINCOLN'S INN, LONDON, WC2A 3TG, ENGLAND
- Tel:
- Work 020 7831 6381
- Fax:
- Fax 020 7831 2575
- DX:
- 1022 LONDON CHANCERY LANE WC2
- Web:
- www.11sb.com
- Email:
Iain Pester
- Tel:
- Work +44 20 7831 6381
- Email:
Work Department
Company and insolvency, commercial.
Position
Iain’s practice covers both general commercial and chancery litigation and advisory work, with a particular focus on civil fraud, including obtaining interim injunctions (freezing injunctions, search orders and orders preserving information in electronic form) and claims based on tracing; corporate insolvency, including directors’ disqualification; personal insolvency; shareholder disputes; partnership; joint ventures; professional negligence, with a focus on solicitors, accountants and financial advisors; and conflict of laws. Iain is recommended as a leading junior for fraud in ‘The Legal 500’, which said his ‘fluency in Russian has proved helpful in recent fraud cases’. For more detailed information, please consult the barristers’ section on www.11sb.com.
Career
Called 1999, Lincoln’s Inn; secondment at the Financial Law Panel in the City; in practice at 11 Stone Buildings since 2001; the author of two chapters in ‘Commercial Litigation: Pre-Emptive Remedies’ 4th ed, looseleaf (Sweet & Maxwell), one on provisional liquidators and the other on injunctions in insolvency proceedings.
Languages
French, German, Russian.
Member
COMBAR; Chancery Bar Association.
Education
BA (Oxon) (first class hons); BCL.
