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Chambers of Ewan McQuater KC and David Quest KC
3 Verulam Buildings
GRAY'S INN
LONDON
WC1R 5NT
England
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Position

David Head is an experienced advocate with a wide-ranging commercial practice, including banking and finance, civil and commercial fraud; professional negligence and liability (especially solicitors, brokers, auditors and surveyors); insurance and reinsurance; insolvency; media, entertainment and sports law. High profile cases include the BCCI employee group litigation (2001-2008), the Zambia v Meer Care fraud litigation (2006-8), the Kyrgyz Mobil Tel v BITEL fraud litigation (Isle of Man, 2011-13), Krys/VDP v New World Value Fund (BVI, 2013-2015) and the Kazakstan Kagazy litigation (2013-date). Many of his cases have an international dimension.

Career

Called to the Bar 1997. QC 2016

Memberships

Middle Temple, Commercial Bar Association, LCLCBA.

Education

St Albans School; Hertford College, Oxford.

Lawyer Rankings

London Bar > Professional negligence

(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3

David Head KC3 Verulam Buildings ‘He’s very good.’

London Bar > Banking and finance (including consumer credit)

(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2

David Head KC3 Verulam Buildings 

London Bar > Commercial litigation

(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3

David Head KC3 Verulam Buildings ‘ David is very user-friendly, combining a great legal brain with commerciality. Always a pleasure to work with.’

London Bar > Fraud: civil

(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1

David Head KC3 Verulam Buildings ‘David is an excellent advocate. He has a manner that judges love and can distil the most complex issues into the most simple concepts that seem completely obvious.’

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.