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Malcolm Davis-white QC
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Position
Barrister specialising in litigation and advice in the fields of company law (including shareholder disputes, directors’ duties, corporate fraud and asset recovery, reductions of capital and schemes of arrangement); insolvency law (both corporate and personal); financial services law; insurance and banking business transfer schemes; regulatory work (including directors’ disqualification, public interest winding-up proceedings, insolvency practitioner tribunals, FSMA); and commercial disputes. He represented a number of the witnesses giving evidence to the BSE enquiry and has acted as an investigator appointed under the Insurance Companies Act 1982. He has also been appointed friend of the court on a number of occasions. Cases include: Stothers v William Steward (Holdings) Ltd [1994] 2 BCLC 266; Re the New Millennium Experience Co Ltd [2003] EWHC 1823 [2004] 1 All ER 687 (rectification of share register; voluntary liquidation); Re Moorgate Metals Ltd [1995] BCC 143; Re Grayan Building Services Ltd [1995] Ch D 241; Official Receiver v Hannan [1997] 2 BCLC 4673; R v Cole [1998] 2 BCLC 234; The Secretary of State for Trade & Industry v Collins [2000] 2 BCLC 223; Re Launchexcept [2000] 1 BCLC 36; Re Bradcrown Ltd [2001] 1 BCLC 547; Official Receiver v Stern & anor (no 2); Re Westminster Property Management Ltd (2) [2001] BCC 305; Re Blackspur, Secretary of State v Eastaway [2001] EWCA CIV 1595, [2002] 2 BCLC 263 and [2006] EWHC 299 (Ch); Re Transtec plc, Secretary of State v Carr [2005] EWHC 1723; [2006] BCC 295; INS Realisations Ltd [2006] EWHC 135; [2006] BCC 307 (directors’ disqualification); the disqualification of directors of Barings reported on various aspects at Re Barings [1998] 1 BCLC 590, [1999] 1 BCLC 226 and 262, [1999] 1 AER 311, [1999] 1 BCLC 433; Re a debtor (no 2021 of 1995) ex p Inland Revenue [1996] 2 AER 345 (faxed proxies in insolvency proceedings); Soden & anor v Burns [1996] 1 WLR 1512; Re Pantmaenog Timber Co Ltd [2003] UKHL 49, [2003] 3 WLR 767 (private examinations under s236); Re Hill Samuel Life Assurance Ltd [1998] 3 AER 176; Re Norwich Union Linked Life Assurance Ltd 1767 [2005] BCC 586; Re Allied Dunbar Assurance Plc [2005] EWHC 28 (ch) [2005] 2 BCLC 220 (ch) (insurance transfer scheme); R v Legal Services Commission ex p Jarrett [2001] EWHC Admin 389 (legal aid – human rights); Re Waste Recycling Group Plc [2004] 1 BCLC 352 (scheme of arrangement: human rights).
Career
Called 1984, Middle Temple and Lincoln’s Inn; formerly junior counsel to the Crown ‘A’ Panel (Chancery) 1994-2003; QC 2003; contributor Atkins Court Forms vols 9 (Companies-General), 10 (Companies Winding-Up); co-author (with Adrian Walters) of ‘Directors’ Disqualification and Bankruptcy Restrictions’.
Member
Chancery Bar Association Insolvency Lawyers Association; Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR); Society for Advanced Legal Studies.
Education
St Edmunds College, Old Hall Green, Ware; Hertford College, Oxford (1983 BCL; 1984 MA).
Practice Areas
Commercial; Insolvency and corporate reconstruction; Litigation - commercial
