James McWilliams > Chambers of Ewan McQuater KC and David Quest KC > London, England > Barrister Profile

With a ‘strong bench in insolvency’ 3 Verulam Buildings‘ members cover a broad range of cross-border and domestic insolvency cases for a variety of clients, including insolvency practitioners, liquidators and administrators. Many of the set’s practitioners have cross-over experience, with insolvency cases having elements from banking and finance, financial services, dispute resolution and fraud. Ewan McQuater, alongside James McWilliams, Philip Hinks and William Day, acted for the liquidators of Grant Thornton in Harrington & Charles Trading Co and Others v Jatin Mehta and others, who alleged that the family and their associates had carried out a fraud by obtaining gold bullion from Indian banks. Angharad Start has acted on a variety of domestic and cross-border cases, while Jamie Riley KC is a key silk from the set.

With ‘quality from top to bottom’, members of 3 Verulam Buildings handle a wide range of civil fraud matters, from banking fraud and breach of fiduciary duties to bribery and asset tracing. Adrian Beltrami KC is acting for the claimant in Jinxin v Aser Media, a claim of deceit and conspiracy arising from the purchase of a sports media company. In Harrington & Charles Trading Co v Mehta, Ewan McQuater KC heads a counsel team including Ian Wilson KC, Philip Hinks, James McWilliams, and James McWilliams, representing the claimant liquidators, who allege that the defendants fraudulently acquired gold bullion shipments from Indian banks. Various members of the set remain involved in significant cum-ex claims, where the Danish tax authority seeks to recover sums it alleges were lost through unlawfully claimed tax refunds; this includes David Head KC, Christopher Bond, Hannah Glover, and Sophia Dzwig representing the DWF defendant group in SKAT v Solo Capital Partners LLP, and Tom Montagu-Smith KC and Philip Hinks acting for the same claimant in SKAT v Elysium Global (Dubai) Ltd and Elysium Properties Ltd.

With ‘quality from top to bottom’, members of 3 Verulam Buildings handle a wide range of civil fraud matters, from banking fraud and breach of fiduciary duties to bribery and asset tracing. Adrian Beltrami KC is acting for the claimant in Jinxin v Aser Media, a claim of deceit and conspiracy arising from the purchase of a sports media company. In Harrington & Charles Trading Co v Mehta, Ewan McQuater KC heads a counsel team including Ian Wilson KC, Philip Hinks, James McWilliams, and James McWilliams, representing the claimant liquidators, who allege that the defendants fraudulently acquired gold bullion shipments from Indian banks. Various members of the set remain involved in significant cum-ex claims, where the Danish tax authority seeks to recover sums it alleges were lost through unlawfully claimed tax refunds; this includes David Head KC, Christopher Bond, Hannah Glover, and Sophia Dzwig representing the DWF defendant group in SKAT v Solo Capital Partners LLP, and Tom Montagu-Smith KC and Philip Hinks acting for the same claimant in SKAT v Elysium Global (Dubai) Ltd and Elysium Properties Ltd.