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St Philips Chambers
55 TEMPLE ROW
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B2 5LS
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Robert Mundy
Work Department
Business & Property
Position
Rob Mundy has a wide-ranging commercial practice and has particular expertise in contract, company, insolvency and commercial fraud disputes. He tends to be instructed in high-value and complicated litigation, usually as the sole advocate and often against silks. He has been consistently recommended in Chambers & Partners and Legal 500.
Rob is a practising mediator and also sits as a Recorder of the County Court.
Career
Called to the Bar in 2008 (Middle Temple).
Recorder (2022)
Memberships
Midland Chancery and Commercial Bar Association; COMBAR
Education
Trinity Hall, Cambridge, MA (Cantab), first class honours.
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Company and insolvency
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Robert Mundy –St Philips Chambers ‘Rob is a corporate barrister par excellence who can be trusted with bet-the-company shareholder litigation. He is particularly academically strong and confident on his feet. Rob is not phased facing off against senior silks and clients can happily trust him to lead the counsel team even on large London litigation.’
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Employment
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Commercial litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Robert Mundy –St Philips Chambers ‘Robert has a great ability to distil large amounts of information and get to the heart of the matter quickly. He is responsive, engaging, very intelligent, hard working and extremely easy to work with. He is a go-to barrister.’
With ‘a good range of experience and expertise’, St Philips Chambers is a ‘go-to in the Midlands for commercial barristers’. John Brennan has a strong reputation for his client care skills and ‘superb and winning advocacy style’ – he has recently acted in several disputes concerning family businesses. In Parker v Patel & Others, Robert Mundy is representing the principal defendant in relation to a civil fraud claim arising from a failed private hospital development project. Noted particularly for his skill in cross-examination, Ali Tabari focuses on commercial litigation with fraud, insolvency, company, and finance elements. He recently acted in high-profile case Henderson & Jones v Ross, Barnes and Others, representing the former directors of a company liable for fitting faulty PIP breast implants, accused of dishonestly conspiring with Barclays Bank and their solicitors to restructure the company in order to avoid various liabilities, including for compensation to victims of the scandal.