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David Mumford KC
Position
Barrister specialising in commercial and chancery litigation, including business agreements and general commercial disputes, civil fraud, company and partnership matters, jurisdictional disputes, claims against trustees and other fiduciaries, and professional negligence. Notable cases include: BAT v Sequana (dividend claw-back in connection with US environmental indemnity claims); Canary Wharf Finance (dispute over the securitisation of the Canary Wharf estate); Bumi (shareholder and other claims concerning the UK-listed mining enterprise); Red October (jurisdiction challenge in debt and conspiracy claims against Russian steel works); Berezovsky v Abramovich, Hine & ors (various actions involving the famous Russian oligarch); Masri v Consolidated Contractors (alleged conspiracy to evade judgment debts); Jennington v Assaubayev (fraud claims in connection with the sale of a gold mining conglomerate); Cadogan Petroleum v Tolley (fraud and bribery claims in connection with a gas exploration business); Lehman Brothers (concerning the administrators’ liability for rent); Cinnamon v BCP (claim against a Portuguese bank about a mortgage securitisation); Equitable Life v Bowley & Ors (acting for former Managing Director and Appointed Actuary in claims arising out of the collapse of the Society); In re the Buncefield Incident (acting for commercial property owners in claims arising out of the oil terminal explosion); Marlwood v Kozeny (acting for US investors in fraud claims concerning the privatisation of the Azeri oil industry); Scottish & Newcastle v PwC (defending professional negligence claims against management consultants) and Gregson v HAE Trustees Limited (successfully resisting a ‘dog-leg’ claim against directors of a trust company for breach of trust).
Career
Called 2000; Lincoln’s Inn.
QC 2016.
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association; COMBAR.
Education
Born 6 March 1975. Educated King’s College School and Magdalen College, Oxford (MA Classics, 1st Class Honours). Former Mansfield Scholar and Denning Scholar of Lincoln’s Inn.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Partnership
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Maitland Chambers engage in a vast range of partnership disputes, from those connected to solicitors’ firms and doctors’ practices to complex partnership structures used in financial services such as those involving offshore funds and wealth structures. David Mumford KC has acted and advised a number of partnership disputes, both in arbitration and litigation, including a partnership dissolution action arising out of a hotel development partnership. Alec McCluskey is frequently instructed in partnership disputes, either on behalf of partners or creditors of partnerships.
London Bar > Company
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4David Mumford KC – Maitland Chambers ‘David is an immensely intelligent and hardworking advocate who efficiently analyses complex legal issues and provides concise commercial solutions.’
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4David Mumford KC –Maitland Chambers ‘Incredibly bright and creative thinking.’
London Bar > Fraud: civil
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2David Mumford KC –Maitland Chambers
‘Has seen it all and wrote the book. He is one of the go-to barristers for complex civil fraud work, particularly with an offshore element.‘
‘An excellent set of highly intellectual, experienced and street-smart barristers‘, Maitland Chambers‘ members are regularly sought out to act in civil fraud proceedings at all court levels. Richard Morgan KC recently acted for the claimant in defending an appeal brought in Bermuda by Credit Suisse in relation to a $607.5m judgment concerning life insurance premium-related frauds committed by an employee of the bank. Offshore, David Mumford KC is defending two prominent Ukrainian political figures against claims before the BVI courts that they fabricated a BVI trust, and then used it to seize control of several hundreds of millions of dollars of assets. In one of the most high-profile claims to be issued in the High Court in recent years, civil fraud junior Duncan McCombe represents the British Bankers’ Association in its defence to a US federal agency claim that the BBA and nine of the world’s largest banks) rigged LIBOR the former benchmark interest rate.
London Bar > Banking and finance (including consumer credit)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4David Mumford KC – Maitland Chambers ‘David has a razor-sharp mind, works incredibly hard, is excellent on his feet, can distil the most complex point into something easy to understand, has the respect of the court and is great with clients – he is the complete package.’
The English Bar Offshore > The English Bar Offshore
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4David Mumford KC –Maitland Chambers ‘David is incredibly bright and a fantastic advocate. He is always calm under pressure and has the ear of the court.’
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.