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Mr Matthew Reeve KC
Position
Commercial advocate practising in most areas of commercial litigation including aviation, insurance and reinsurance, international arbitration, dry shipping, commodities, transport, sports and media, energy, ship building and construction, conflicts of laws, product liability, sale of goods, and professional negligence. Significant cases include: Adyard v Serco Denholm Marine Services [2011] EWHC 848 (Comm) – rescission of contracts for the construction of support ships for the Royal Navy; Jet Finance Group LLC v Hawker Beachcraft Limited (2010) – title dispute between the original purchaser of British Aerospace 125 jet – effect of registration on unregistered prior interests; Day v Tasker (2009) engineers’ liability for helicopter crash; Gamit Limited v Saudi Royal Flight (2009) – repudiatory breach of contract for overhaul of engines of Royal Boeing 747; Reinsurance arbitration, seated in Bermuda (2008) – excess of loss treaty – ‘Katrina’ catastrophe claims – misrepresentation of balance of exposures property reinsurance accounts; Datec Electronic Holdings Limited v United Parcels Service Limited [2007] 1 WLR 1325 – House of Lords – effect of standard terms on carrier’s Convention liabilities; Harper Versicherungs AG v Indemnity Marine Assurance Co Limited [2006] 2 Lloyd’s 263 (Commercial Court) – reinsurance dispute concerning treaties written in 1965-68; Sir David Berriman v Rose Thomson Young (Syndicate 255/258) [1996] 5 Reinsurance LR 117 – LMX Spiral claims; Bates & ors v Barrow & ors [1995] 1 Lloyd’s LR 680 – reinsurance – illegality of reinsurance policies made by an English coverholder of a foreign reinsurer; Edwin Arthur Simner v The New India Assurance Company Limited [1995] LRLR 240 – reinsurance – extent of insured’s duty to make investigations for the purposes of making a fair presentation of the risk; Lady Patricia Ashmore v The Corporation of Lloyd’s (No.1) [1992] 1 WLR 446, [1992] 1 Reinsurance LR335; Lady Patricia Ashmore v The Corporation of Lloyd`s (No.2) [1992] Lloyd’s LR 620 – duties owed by Lloyd’s as market regulator.
Career
Called 1987; Inner Temple.
Memberships
COMBAR; PNBA; an active member of the Inner Temple (Bencher).
Education
Ratcliffe College; Magdalene College, Cambridge (1984 MA Law).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Aviation and Travel
(2023 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Matthew Reeve KC – Quadrant Chambers ‘Matthew has an enormous capacity to hunt down every angle on a matter, including many that most people would never think of. He is persistent and tenacious, with a real talent for reminding people of the context in which an argument is happening.’
Members of Quadrant Chambers take on instructions from lessors, airlines and insurers across matters ranging from hull losses to leasing and redelivery disputes. John Kimbell KC is noted for his expertise in multi-jurisdictional matters, including representing families in claims arising out of fatal crashes. Insurance disputes form the basis of Guy Blackwood KC‘s practice, who leads for a number of parties defending operator all risk policy claims in AerCap (and ors) v AIG (and ors), while on the lessor side, Robert-Jan Temmink KC is handling claims against a number of Lloyds syndicates. Matthew Reeve KC is engaged by lessors bringing both lessor and operator claims against insurers, and also secured an injunction forcing disclosure of where non-airworthy parts for CFM56 engines were sold to the plaintiffs in GE Aviation and CFM v AOG Technics. Tom Bird maintains a strong insurer-side practice, defending a number of reinsurers facing operator claims in the wake of Russia’s confiscation of leased aircraft, with further experience appearing for parties in inquests investigating fatal accidents.