The Legal 500

London Bar

Set overviews: England and Wales

4 Stone Buildings is ‘an excellent set of chambers’ for commercial Chancery work and comprises ‘technically gifted barristers’ who are ‘routinely approachable, flexible and excellent with clients’. The set has ‘a good balance of silks, senior juniors and junior juniors’, who are ‘experts in their fields’ and ‘a joy to work with’. The ‘incredibly helpful and diligent’ clerks’ room is also ‘a notch above the rest’. Senior clerk David Goddard ‘could not be better; he is commercially balanced, astute at picking the right barrister for a particular piece of work and reasonable when it comes to fixing fees’. First junior Jason Doyle is ‘more knowledgeable than most solicitors on the Civil Procedure Rules and appears to have every court clerk’s phone number and birthday memorised’. Offices in: London

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London Bar

Administrative and public law (including local government)

Administrative and public law (including local government) – Leading silks

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Banking and finance (including consumer credit)

Banking and finance (including consumer credit) – Leading sets - ranked: tier 4

4 Stone Buildings

4 Stone Buildings is ‘an excellent set’, where ‘the barristers seem to share in the ethos that counsel should be approachable both in terms of legal advice and client relations’. Chambers contains some of the most active silks in this area, involved in blockbuster cases such as Libyan Investment Authority v Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank v Unitech.

Banking and finance (including consumer credit) – Leading silks

Banking and finance (including consumer credit) – Leading juniors

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Commercial litigation

Commercial litigation – Leading sets - ranked: tier 3

4 Stone Buildings

Successfully bridging the divide between commercial and Chancery work, 4 Stone Buildings provides a ‘first-rate’ service and is praised for its strength in depth. Members are regularly found acting in some of the market’s largest cases, a notable recent highlight being Autonomy Corporation v Dr Michael Lynch.

Commercial litigation – Leading silks

Commercial litigation – Leading juniors

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Company and partnership

Company – Leading sets - ranked: tier 2

4 Stone Buildings

4 Stone Buildings has ‘a strong history of general commercial expertise and some very able junior counsel, who are leaders in their fields’. George Bompas QC was instructed by the claimant in high-value case Windward Prospects v Sequana, which was part of a complex multi-jurisdictional dispute.

Company – Leading silks

Company – Leading juniors

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Fraud: civil

Fraud: civil – Leading sets - ranked: tier 2

4 Stone Buildings

4 Stone Buildings is ‘a first-class’ commercial Chancery set with ‘superb, in-depth knowledge’ of fraud. Lead roles in major cases such as Pinchuk v Kolomoisky & Bogolyubov, Hewlett-Packard/Autonomy v Dr Michael Lynch, and Ecclestone v HMRC, are reflective of the standing that many members have in the market.

Fraud: civil – Leading silks

Fraud: civil – Leading juniors

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IT and telecoms (including data protection)

Telecoms (regulatory) – Leading silks

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Insolvency

Insolvency – Leading sets - ranked: tier 2

4 Stone Buildings

4 Stone Buildings is ‘an excellent set of chambers containing extremely good lawyers’. It provides ‘consistently high standards of work’ to a broad range of clients. Many of the set’s juniors sit on Attorney General’s panels.

Insolvency – Leading silks

Insolvency – Leading juniors

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Set overviews: England and Wales

4 Stone Buildings is ‘an excellent set of chambers’ for commercial Chancery work and comprises ‘technically gifted barristers’ who are ‘routinely approachable, flexible and excellent with clients’. The set has ‘a good balance of silks, senior juniors and junior juniors’, who are ‘experts in their fields’ and ‘a joy to work with’. The ‘incredibly helpful and diligent’ clerks’ room is also ‘a notch above the rest’. Senior clerk David Goddard ‘could not be better; he is commercially balanced, astute at picking the right barrister for a particular piece of work and reasonable when it comes to fixing fees’. First junior Jason Doyle is ‘more knowledgeable than most solicitors on the Civil Procedure Rules and appears to have every court clerk’s phone number and birthday memorised’. Offices in: London

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