3 Hare Court

Nicholas has a busy and varied commercial and civil practice with a particular focus on commercial litigation, international arbitration, civil fraud and asset recovery, insolvency and company disputes, cryptoassets and public law. His work often has an international or offshore element (including appeals to the Privy Council).

In addition to his work as part of counsel teams in complex, high-value disputes, he regularly appears as sole counsel in trials, interim application hearings and costs and case management conferences. Despite his recent year of call, he has successfully appeared as sole counsel in the High Court on multiple occasions against opponents many years more senior.

His recent and ongoing case highlights include:

Civil Fraud & Asset Recovery

• Segulah Medical Acceleration AB and Others v Tripathi and Another and Gallahue and Others v Tripathi and Another (BL-2024-000036 and BL-2024-000401) (ChD): Representing one of the defendants to multimillion dollar and multiparty civil fraud claims arising out of the purchase of shares in a medical technology company (led by Rowan Pennington-Benton).
• Bourlakova and Others v Bourlakov and Others [2024] EWHC 765 (Ch): Represented a respondent to freezing and proprietary injunction applications in a wider $3.7 billion civil fraud claim (led by Graham Dunning KC and Alexander Milner KC).

Commercial Litigation & International Arbitration

• Waterworks Ltd v Water and Sewage Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (JCPC/2021/0066): Awaiting judgment in an appeal concerning the contractual interpretation of sub-clause 19.6(c) within the FIDIC forms, the most widely used standard form international construction contracts (led by Rowan Pennington-Benton).
• Working on a $300 million ICSID arbitration between a construction and engineering company and a national government.
• Nanox Imaging PLC v David Schick 2024/GSC/043: Successfully applied for an anti-suit injunction and successfully resisted an application for a stay on forum non conveniens grounds in the Supreme Court of Gibraltar (led by Rowan Pennington-Benton).

Cryptoassets & Blockchain Technology

• Representing three Gibraltar-based defendants in a multimillion pound claim concerning the development of a fiat to cryptocurrency exchange and digital wallet application (led by Rowan Pennington-Benton).
• Co-drafted the Network Access Rules for the BSV Association as part of an 18-month collaborative project with D2 Legal Technology to create a groundbreaking multilateral contract in the cryptocurrency and blockchain technology sphere (led by Jeffrey Golden KC (Hon)).

Insolvency & Company

• Currently instructed by a Luxembourg-based company to review and appeal four orders made under paragraph 71 of schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986 (led by Peter Knox KC).
• Frost and Another v The Good Box Co Labs Ltd and Others [2024] EWHC 422 (Ch): Successfully dismissed an application by former administrators to increase their remuneration (as sole counsel).
• Wilson and Another v Frost and Another [2024] EWHC 573 (Ch): Successfully applied for an adjournment of an insolvency trial on mental health grounds on the first day of the trial (as sole counsel).

Public & Appeals to the Privy Council

• Representing a claimant in a High Court misfeasance in public office claim (led by Malcolm Bishop KC before his appointment as Lord Chief Justice of the Kingdom of Tonga).
• Lafresière v New Mauritius Hotels Ltd (Mauritius) [2023] UKPC 38: Assisted Hervé Duval SC and Nicolas Henry successfully dismiss an appeal from the Supreme Court of Mauritius concerning wrongful dismissal proceedings.

Before joining Chambers, Nicholas taught law as a Visiting Lecturer at City, University of London, where he received the Law School’s Teaching Excellence Award. He previously studied at UCL, the University of Oxford, City University, the University of Cambridge and The Hague Academy of International Law, during which time he was awarded multiple scholarships and prizes. He was also part of the Gray’s Inn team that won the UK National Championship in the Jessup International Law Moot.