Chambers of Lord Grabiner QC
TEMPLE, LONDON, EC4Y 9AR, ENGLAND
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Stephen Auld QC
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Position
Undertakes a wide and varied range of complex commercial work, frequently involving a number of jurisdictions; has a particular expertise in corporate acquisitions, City regulation, claims against professional and other financial advisers, substantial fraud and asset recovery media-related cases such as film and music business contracts, banking and insurance and is widely experienced in all these fields; particularly experienced in acquisition of companies, share sale agreements, breach of warranty and related claims for instance against auditors and merchant banks; arbitrations (in particular arbitrations relating to commodities and arising from share and business sale agreements); banking including regulation; breach of directors’ duties; City regulation and financial services including the major SROs (SFA, PIA, FIMBRA etc) and DTI enquiries; civil and commercial fraud/tracing of assets/Mareva injunctions (and related asset protection relief); employment law (particularly directors’ contracts and terminations); insurance; jurisdictional issues; media and entertainment (including accountants/auditors and financial advisers); restraint of trade and breach of confidence including Anton Piller and similar asset protection relief; sale of goods and services; recent work includes advising and representing: the administrators of a substantial property lending bank and subject of DTI investigation in relation to its collapse, claims by syndicate members, claims against former directors and DTI inquiry; former directors, in relation to the UK’s biggest ever corporate collapse, a substantial hotel group, including a DTI Inquiry; the securities and futures authority in its two most substantial disciplinary cases, both arising from the Maxwell collapse; both vendors and purchasers in relation to numerous substantial takeover and acquisition disputes, share sale agreements and related claims for fraud and against auditors and other financial advisers; plaintiffs in worldwide Marevas, concerning substantial fraud/breaches of trust; a household name electronics manufacturer in claims against a major public service broadcaster relating to terrestrial broadcasting; a major pop star in a substantial dispute with her manager; substantial film producers, studios and agents/distributors in relation to claims concerning the financing and distribution of films including the AMFA standard terms; various syndicates of leading banks in relation inter alia to asset financing aircraft leases and real property.
Career
Qualified 1979, Gray’s Inn; QC 1999.
Education
Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
Practice Areas
Financial services; Litigation - commercial; Fraud: civil
