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Edwin Coe LLP Offices

Edwin Coe LLP
2 STONE BUILDINGS
LINCOLN'S INN
LONDON
WC2A 3TH
England
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Ali Zaidi

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Work Department

Head of Litigation and of the Restructuring & Insolvency team

Position

Ali Zaidi is the Head of Litigation and of the Restructuring & Insolvency team. He has worked on several high profile Insolvency cases including multi-million pound bankruptcy and corporate Ponzi frauds.

He has experience in asset tracing abroad, pursuing and defending claims of misfeasance by directors, conducting Insolvency Act examinations, advising on asset avoidance schemes, pursuing directors personally for deceit and defending directors in disqualification proceedings.

He also has extensive experience of commercial litigation matters ranging from fraud investigations to partnership and shareholder disputes.

He is a past member of the Disciplinary and Regulatory Committee of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. He regularly lectures to groups of Insolvency Practitioners and Chartered Accountants and is a past Law Society Committee Member.

Career

Qualified 1990; salaried partner Edwin Coe 2000; equity partner 2004; regularly lectures to groups of insolvency practitioners and accountants.

Memberships

Member Admissions Licensing and Disciplinary Committee of ACCA
Executive committee member of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Asian Business Association
Institute of Asian Professionals
Law Society Council membership Committee.

Education

South Bank University 2(1)

Leisure

Watching Crystal Palace FC underachieve

Lawyer Rankings

London > Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil

Edwin Coe LLP‘s ‘class action team has great experience in high-value fraud claims’. Representing consumers (and others) in pursuing fraud-based collective claims, group action litigation team head David Greene is ‘an immensely gifted litigator and has the best advocacy skills in the business’. The caseload of litigation and insolvency head Ali Zaidi includes overseas asset tracing; pursuing and defending claims of misfeasance by directors; pursuing directors personally for fraud and deceit; and defending directors in disqualification proceedings.

London > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market

‘A well-oiled machine undertaking an impressive range of high-quality instructions’, Edwin Coe LLP has an enviable market reputation for civil claimant litigation against major City firms. Heading up the firm’s litigation and insolvency practice, Ali Zaidi is experienced in fraud-related cases, as well as insolvency matters. Senior partner David Greene is ‘somewhat of a doyen of High Court group litigation‘. The practice further includes Zahira Hussain, who regularly handles contractual disputes, along with professional negligence, civil fraud and judicial reviews, and commercial litigation and ADR specialist Thomas Johnson, who is ‘on top of all the detail’.

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