Kings Chambers

Aidan has rapidly developed his practice, specialising exclusively in commercial and chancery disputes (including insolvency).

With regular appearances in both the County Court and High Court conducting applications, CCMCs, trials and appeals, Aidan has a broad range of advocacy experience.  Aidan is also often instructed in a range of advisory and drafting work.

Aidan’s practice includes the following areas:

• Business rates disputes
• Corporate and commercial disputes
• Corporate and personal insolvency matters
• Jurisdictional matters
• Partnership disputes
• Possession actions
• Property disputes (including common intention constructive trusts and ToLATA 1996 matters)

Aidan Reay joined Chambers in 2013 having undertaken pupillage with Kings following completion of his legal studies at Oxford, Cambridge and Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) and having completed a five-month research traineeship at the ECJ (as it then was).

Beddingfield Scholarship (Gray’s Inn’s top scholarship for Bar school) Reid Scholarship (one of only four senior scholarships awarded by Gray’s Inn for pupillage)

Having studied in Paris and worked in Luxembourg, Aidan speaks and writes excellent French.

Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association (Committee Member) Gray’s Inn

B.A., First Class, Law with Law Studies in Europe (University of Oxford, Brasenose College) LL.M. (University of Cambridge, Clare College) BPTC, Outstanding (City University (formerly the Inns of Court School of Law)) Certificat supérieur en droit français (Université Paris II)

Outside of work, Aidan is a keen cricket fan, a developing squash and tennis player and a lapsed golfer.