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Mr Edward Cumming KC
Position
Edward is a barrister specialising in most areas of chancery and commercial litigation. He particularly relishes advocacy, appearing frequently before a range of courts and tribunals, and has extensive experience of international and multi-jurisdictional disputes. This particular international emphasis was further enhanced when he was retained for a substantial period to advise a leading offshore firm on a number of business and trust matters involving Guernsey and the BVI. Edward’s breadth of expertise is recognised by the leading directories. He is not only recommended in the chancery sphere for traditional chancery litigation, private client disputes (trust and probate), company disputes and insolvency disputes, but also for commercial dispute resolution, banking and finance, and aviation.
Career
Call: 2006 | Silk: 2018
Edward read Law at Downing College, Cambridge where he was President of the Cambridge Union. After leaving Cambridge he was a Thouron Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, studying at both the Law School and Wharton Business School. He then became director of a group of engineering and property management companies, acquiring a practical understanding of the commercial realities of business and, in particular, company law, before completing pupillage at XXIV Old Buildings.
Languages
French, basic German.
Memberships
- Chancery Bar Association
- Commercial Bar Association
- Institute of Art & Law
- Guernsey International Lawyers Association
- Bar Pro Bono Unit
Education
- MA (Cantab)
- LLM (UPenn)
- Thouron Fellowship to the University of Pennsylvania
- Queen Mother’s Scholar and Harmsworth Exhibitioner of Middle Temple
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Private client: trusts and probate
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Edward Cumming KC –XXIV Old Buildings ‘Edward is an absolute superstar. He has a phenomenal work rate, huge intellect, an elephantine memory, and utterly charming with it.’
London Bar > Charities
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Edward Cumming KC –XXIV Old Buildings ‘Edward is a brilliant strategist and an exceptional advocate.’
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 5Edward Cumming KC –XXIV Old Buildings ‘Incredible intellect, boundless enthusiasm, and a tenacious fighter for his client.’
London Bar > Insolvency
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Edward Cumming KC –XXIV Old Buildings ‘Ed is an exceptional strategist.’
London Bar > Fraud: civil
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Edward Cumming KC –XXIV Old Buildings ‘A very clever and a calm and clear thinker. He is at the top of his game but also very client friendly.’
London Bar > Banking and finance (including consumer credit)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Edward Cumming KC –XXIV Old Buildings ‘Ed is a go-to counsel for high value, complex cases. He is like a dynamo, and his positive energy carries the whole team. He is aggressive when needed, but also subtle. An absolute star of the Bar.’
The English Bar Offshore > The English Bar Offshore
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Edward Cumming KC –XXIV Old Buildings ‘Edward has strong skills as a strategist and makes sound decisions quickly. He marshals his arguments well, thinks and speaks clearly and is very effective as an advocate.’