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Mr Tim Benham-Mirando
Position
Tim has a broad commercial chancery practice across the range of work undertaken in Chambers, with a particular focus on commercial disputes, company law, trusts and civil fraud. He has experience of litigation (both domestic and offshore) and arbitration (under various rules).
Tim read law at the University of Oxford where he graduated with a first class degree (ranking fifth in his year) and a Distinction on the BCL. He previously taught Trusts and Land Law at the University of Oxford. He was awarded the Lord Mansfield scholarship by Lincoln’s Inn (the Inn’s top award).
Before coming to the Bar, Tim worked in the international arbitration group at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, a leading US law firm. During his time at the firm, he worked on a number of arbitrations, and arbitration related court applications, for corporate clients from a variety of industries, including energy, commodities and telecommunications.
Career
Year of Call: 2019
Education
BA in Law, Brasenose College, University of Oxford (First Class, ranked 5th in year)
BPTC, City Law School (Outstanding)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Insolvency
(Rising stars)Ranked: Tier 1Tim Benham-Mirando – Serle Court ‘Tim is very intelligent, conscientious and strategic. He demonstrates real depth to his legal analysis, as well as the ability to assimilate huge volumes of factual information, from which he identifies what is core to the issues in dispute.’
Serle Court‘s members handle a broad range of cross-border and domestic insolvency cases, having been involved in bringing innovation to the practice area, with cases ranging from dealing with the first ever winding up of a listed PLC on the just and equitable ground, to challenging excessive administrator remuneration in an energy insolvency. Daniel Lightman KC, alongside Tim Benham-Mirando, has been involved in Re BHS Group Limited, defending a claim for wrongful trading and misfeasance. Philip Marshall KC is active in insolvencies in offshore jurisdictions, particularly those involving asset tracing and fraud, while Jennifer Meech has appeared as sole counsel in a number of insolvency cases.
London Bar > Fraud: civil
(Rising stars)Ranked: Tier 1With ‘many fantastic barristers’, Serle Court represents both claimants and defendants in high-profile civil fraud cases in English courts and abroad, drawing on its expertise in banking and finance, insolvency, and trusts. In Magdeev v Tsvetkov and others, Jonathan Adkin KC, leading Adil Mohamedbhai, represented the second defendant in a multi-million-pound Commercial Court dispute between Russian businessmen, where each party claimed to have been defrauded by the other concerning the operation of a jewellery business. Hugh Norbury KC and Tim Benham-Mirando represent the fifth and seventh defendants in Jinxin v Aser Media and others, a $661m claim for deceit and unlawful means conspiracy, involving alleged fraud and misrepresentations related to the acquisition of media rights for Italian Serie A and FIFA World Cup matches. Wright, Rowley, BHS and others v Chappell and others sees Daniel Lightman KC and Charlotte Beynon representing a former BHS director in High Court claims by the BHS Group liquidators for alleged wrongful trading, misfeasance, breach of duties, and misapplication of funds before the companies went into administration.