Mr Richard Tetlow > Exchange Chambers > Manchester, England > Barrister Profile
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M3 3NW
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Mr Richard Tetlow
Work Department
Commercial; Insolvency; Property
Position
Richard is an experienced junior practising in the Commercial, Commercial Fraud, Insolvency and Property departments, with extensive experience of acting in an advisory capacity or drafting, and in advocacy of all kinds.
- Richard has a broad commercial practice, covering contractual disputes, banking, mortgages and asset recovery, professional negligence, sale of goods/product liability, company and partnership law and commercial litigation generally.
- He also practices extensively in insolvency, acting for both office holders and those subject to insolvency proceedings.
- Richard is also a member of the commercial fraud department, with significant experience in the area.
- Richard’s practice also covers various areas of property law, including real property disputes, landlord and tenant disputes and trusts.
Richard is listed as a Leading Individual in Chambers & Partners in Commercial Dispute Resolution and Restructuring/Insolvency, and a Leading Junior in The Legal 500 in Company and Insolvency.
He has been variously described as:
- “He is very good on his feet. He is careful and well prepared, and he has a manner that clients can gel with.” “He’s very persuasive in front of a judge and very good at spotting unusual points.” “He is very approachable and very user-friendly.” (Chambers and Partners 2021)
- “Good to work with. Team player. Nothing too much trouble. Reliable and hard working.” (The Legal 500 2021)
- “Very diligent and always well prepared.” (Chambers and Partners 2020)
- a “talented junior with a burgeoning reputation, who handles a wide variety of commercial disputes including company, contractual and insolvency-related matters”, having “exactly the right attitude” and being an “extremely able and user-friendly junior – he is very much a safe pair of hands on all things chancery, commercial and insolvency related.” (Chambers and Partners 2019)
- “a future star who is particularly good at cross-examination” (Chambers and Partners 2018)
Richard is Junior Counsel to the Crown (Regional A Panel).
Career
Called 2006
Memberships
- Northern Chancery Bar Association
- Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association
- Northern Circuit
Education
- Shrewsbury School, 1997-2002
- MA (Cantab), Law, Downing College, Cambridge (II.i, 2002-2005)
- BVC, Inns of Court School of Law (Very Competent, 2005-2006)
- Jules Thorne Scholarship, Middle Temple, 2005
- Pupillage, 8 King Street, Manchester, 2006-2007 (tenancy 2007 – joined Exchange Chambers in 2008)
- Junior of the Northern Circuit, 2009
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Northern Circuit > Commercial litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Richard Tetlow – Exchange Chambers ‘Richard is technically excellent whilst also commercially minded. He impresses clients with a confident but courteous courtroom approach, and he is both meticulous and efficient in drafting pleadings.’
Regional Bar > Northern Circuit > Company and insolvency
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Richard Tetlow – Exchange Chambers ‘Measured but persuasive advocate. Written and oral submissions are always unfussy and therefore easy for the Court and clients to follow. Able to simplify and distill complex issues.’
Exchange Chambers ‘has high-quality juniors’ and ‘is the chambers of choice for insolvency matters.’ Its members have expertise across a wide range of matters, including shareholder and partnership disputes, director disqualification, breaches of fiduciary duties, derivative claims, s994 unfair prejudice petitions, and corporate insolvency. The set is home to Giles Maynard-Connor KC, who represents clients in corporate and personal contentious work, and he has acted on cases in the Cayman Islands and Gibraltar. George Rowell has expertise in insolvency cases with a tax background, including claims against directors arising from failed tax avoidance schemes. Carly Sandbach is experienced in director disqualification proceedings and public interest winding up petitions, as well as breaches of directors’ duties – in Bona Vacantia Ltd v Noblett, she successfully obtained a summary judgment on behalf of the defendant, defeating an attempt to make a director personally liable using s217 of the Insolvency Act 1986. Richard Tetlow regularly acts for office holders, individuals, and companies, and has expertise in director disqualification proceedings. Recent growth for the set includes Graham Sellers arriving from Atlantic Chambers in June 2023.