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Stephen Moverley Smith QC
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Position
Barrister specialising in international litigation and arbitration in the fields of commercial, company, trusts and business law. With a background of high-profile work for the DTI and Inland Revenue as junior counsel to the Crown (Chancery) prior to taking silk in 2002, has developed an extensive practice in the fields of hostile corporate and trust litigation, insolvency, civil fraud and joint venture disputes (in both a corporate and partnership context), often for private clients. Recent and ongoing cases include acting as lead counsel for the liquidators of the larger investor in Madoff, a global dispute concerning China’s largest soft drinks company, and asset recovery proceedings for a major investment bank following the uncovering of a Taiwanese bank fraud. Has an extensive offshore practice, particularly in the British Virgin Islands (since 1995), and is an expert on conflict of law issues. Regularly acts in international commercial arbitrations both in the UK and overseas.
Career
Called 1985, Middle Temple; junior counsel to the Crown, Chancery; called to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean; Queens Counsel 2002.
Member
Chancery Bar Association; Insolvency Lawyers Association.
Education
Reading School; Oxford (MA).
Practice Areas
Insolvency and corporate reconstruction; International commercial arbitration; Litigation - commercial
