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Maitland Chambers
7 STONE BUILDINGS, LINCOLN'S INN
LONDON
WC2A 3SZ
England
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Olivier Kalfon
Position
Olivier specialises in commercial chancery litigation with a strong emphasis on business disputes (often with an international dimension), civil fraud, company and insolvency, and banking / financial services litigation.
Career
Called to the Bar of England and Wales (Inner Temple) 2003. Admitted to the Bar in the Cayman Islands in 2006. Admitted to practice as a Legal Practitioner in the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI) in 2016.
Memberships
Commercial Bar Association; Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association; Chancery Bar Association; Insolvency Lawyers Association; British-Russian Law Association.
Education
BSc Economics (LSE)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2London Bar > Insolvency
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Olivier Kalfon –Maitland Chambers ‘User friendly, knowledgeable and commercial.’
The English Bar Offshore > The English Bar Offshore
Maitland Chambers is noted as a go-to set for high-profile, civil fraud, commercial and trust matters at all levels of the court systems, including before the Privy Council, with barristers regularly active across all offshore jurisdictions. Richard Morgan KC successfully acted for the claimant in resisting the recent appeal of Credit Suisse against a $607m judgment in Credit Suisse Life (Bermuda) Limited v Ivanishvili. The case involved a claim by the ex-prime minister of Georgia against a subsidiary of a Swiss bank arising out the allegedly fraudulent actions of a rogue employee. ‘Fantastic advocate’ David Mumford KC led an appeal before the Eastern Caribbean Court of appeal in November in Wang v Floreat, a case which sought the winding up of funds worth $500 million. From the set’s juniors, Olivier Kalfon ‘s practice retains its strong offshore disputes emphasis, particularly those in the BVI and Cayman Islands.