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Chambers of Michael Todd QC

33 CHANCERY LANE, LONDON, WC2A 1EN, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7242 5532
Fax:
Fax 020 7831 0125
DX:
308 LONDON CHANCERY LANE WC2
Web:
www.erskinechambers.com
Email:

Richard Snowden QC

Tel:
Work +44 20 7242 5532
Email:
Erskine Chambers (Chambers of Michael Todd QC)

Position

Specialist in company law, corporate insolvency, financial services and related commercial litigation (75% contentious business, 25% non-contentious advisory work); reported cases include Paramount Airways (Powdrill v Watson), BCCI (no 10), Barings sale to ING, Heron Group Plc, Law Debenture v Ural Caspian, Re Astec (BSR) Plc, Re Osiris Insurance Ltd, Arrow Nominees Inc v Blackledge, Mahomed v Morris, Re Leyland Daf Ltd, Re T & N Ltd, Ultraframe v Fielding, Re Sovereign Marine, Re SSSL Realisations, OFT v Abbey National and others (bank charges).

Career

Called 1986; Lincoln’s Inn; silk 2003; joint editor Lightman and Moss, ‘The Law of Administrators and Receivers of Companies’, Sweet & Maxwell (4th ed, 2007), joint editor ‘Company Directors: Law and Liability’ (Sweet & Maxwell, looseleaf).

Member

Chancery Bar Association; Commercial Bar Association (member of the Executive Committee); Insolvency Lawyers’ Association; Insolvency Rules Committee.

Education

Sir William Turner’s Grammar School; Downing College, Cambridge (MA): Harvard Law School (LLM).

Leisure

Rugby, golf, cricket, music, photography.

Practice Areas

Commercial; Financial services; Insolvency and corporate reconstruction

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