The Legal 500

Position

Steven Gee has been in silk since 1993. Whilst a junior he was the standing junior counsel to the Department of Trade and Industry (ECGD). He is the head of Stone Chambers, a commercial litigator, and the author of ‘Commercial Injunctions’ (published by Sweet & Maxwell, 6th edition forthcoming) and many articles. Steven practises in the full range of commercial work including arbitrations, agency agreements, distribution agreements, commercial contracts, joint ventures, partnership cases, sale of goods, insurance, reinsurance cases, misrepresentation and civil fraud, shipping, shipbuilding, company law and banking. He is recommended in the directories published by ‘Legal 500’ and ‘Chambers & Partners’ as a specialist in commercial arbitration, commercial litigation, civil fraud, insurance and reinsurance and shipping. He sits as a commercial arbitrator (appointors include the President of the Law Society) and has acted in numerous commercial arbitrations over a period of 30 years in England, Bermuda, New York, Paris and Geneva (including ICC arbitrations in England, New York, Paris and Geneva), and as counsel in cases about the enforcement of arbitration agreements and awards.

Career

Called to the Bar (England and Wales) 1975, QC 1993; appointed standing junior counsel to the Department of Trade and Industry (ECGD) 1987; admitted to The New York State Bar 1999; admitted to the Federal Courts in New York 1999; appointed recorder of the Crown Court (London and South Eastern Circuit) 2000 (assistant recorder: 1998). Lectured for General Council of the Bar on ‘Provisional Orders’ (April 2009 in Berlin). Publications: author, ‘Mareva Injunctions and Anton Piller Relief’, 4th edition, 1998; ‘Commercial Injunctions’; ‘Gee on Commercial Injunctions’ (5th ed) published by Sweet & Maxwell and this is now regarded as the leading practitioners’ textbook on injunctions in commercial litigation (It includes an appendix, written with Shearman and Sterling, on New York law). Recent articles ‘Demand Guarantees and the Fraud Exception’ [2010] ‘Bankers’ Law’ with Mary Gibbons; ‘Interpretation of Commercial Contracts’ [2001] 117 Law Quarterly Review 358; ‘Construing Contracts with Mistakes in them’ [2001] LMCLQ 214; ‘A Solicitor’s duty to warn that a court might take a different view’, Tolley’s Journal of Professional Negligence Vol 19.2 2003 p362; ‘Transactions in fraud of Creditors’: The Foreign Element [2005] 1 International Corporate Rescue 29; ‘Performance Bonds’ in Bankers’ Law (2005); ‘The Undertaking in Damages’ to be published in 2006 LMCLQ 125; supplement to the highly regarded ‘Commercial Injunctions’; has written articles for the Law Quarterly Review, Lloyds Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly and Arbitration International; ‘Jurisdiction: the validity and width of arbitration agreements and the House of Lords in Premium Nafta Products v Fili Shipping’, Arbitration International [2008] Vol 24, issue 3.

Languages

French.

Member

LCIA; Fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; vice-chair of the International Disputes Committee of the American Bar Association.

Education

Oxford University (MA).

Leisure

Member Serpentine Running Club, MCC.

Practice Areas

Litigation - commercial; Litigation - insurance/reinsurance; Shipping - marine