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Mr Glen Davis KC

020 7696 9900 glendavis@southsquare.com

Position

Glen is a senior silk with nearly thirty years’ experience of specialising in domestic and cross-border insolvency and restructuring, and of acting in commercial disputes complicated by insolvency. His contentious and advisory commercial practice has extend to banking and financial services, payment services and e-money, insurance, shipping, company and partnership disputes, civil fraud and professional negligence.

Since taking silk in 2011, Glen has been involved in significant restructurings and insolvencies (including Greensill Capital), a number of investment bank special administrations (including MF Global, Worldspreads, Strand Capital, WealthTek), two significant Gibraltar insurance liquidations (Lemma Europe Insurance, Hill Insurance), cases arising from shipping collapses in Europe and the Far East (including Korea Lines Corporation and Sanko), major restructurings including Bulgaria Telecom, cases arising from the Irish financial collapse, substantial claims against directors, and law firm insolvencies.

Glen has acted for the financial services regulators of the UK and of a number of offshore jurisdictions, and is appointed to act as a Senior Decision Maker for the Guernsey Financial Services Commission. He served for 10 years as a member of the Insolvency Rules Committee in the UK, and has also advised the Government of Gibraltar and a number of domestic and foreign Government-related organisations about insolvency, company and regulatory law reform and implementation. He takes a particular interest in Africa and for many years chaired the Africa Committee of the Commercial Bar Association.

Career

Called 1992; QC 2011. CEDR-accredited Mediator 1998; called to the Bar of Gibraltar for specific cases 2013; called to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court 2014; licensed to appear in the courts of the Dubai International Financial Centre; appointed to the Guernsey Financial Services Commission’s panel of Senior Decision Makers 2015; appointed to INSOL International Mediation Panel 2015

Languages

Spanish (conversational).

Memberships

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb),  R3, , COMBAR (Chair, Africa Committee, 2007-2022), Insolvency Lawyers’ Association.

Education

Balliol College, Oxford University (1979 MA English, First Class); City University (1992 CPE).

Leisure

Contemporary art and dance, football (Arsenal), photography.