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Mr Guy Olliff-Cooper

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Position

Guy has a broad commercial Chancery practice with a particular emphasis on civil fraud. He appears regularly as both sole and junior counsel in the High Court and Court of Appeal. He enjoys a busy offshore practice and is called to the Bar of both the BVI and the DIFC.

His reported cases include:

• Von Der Heydt Invest S.A. v Multibank FX International Corporation BVIHCMAP2022/0008 (21 February 2023) – a successful appeal against an order for fortification of a cross-undertaking in damages.
• Peregrine Aviation Bravo v Laudamotion GmbH [2023] EWHC 48 (Comm) – a US$40 million claim by the world’s largest aircraft leasing company against Ryanair and Laudamotion for sums due under an indemnity clause following Laudamotion’s failure to accept various aircraft tendered for lease during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Oscar Trustee Limited v MBS Software Solutions Limited BVIHCMAP 2021/0024 (17 August 2022) – the leading judgment from the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal on forum non conveniens.
• Les Ambassadeurs Club Ltd v Yu [2022] 4 WLR 1 – the leading authority on the meaning of the phrase “real risk of dissipation” in the context of freezing relief.
• Puharic v Silverbond Enterprises Ltd [2021] EWHC 351 (QB) – a claim for an alleged ‘bonus’ supposedly due from a high-profile Mayfair casino.
• Al Jaber v Bosheh [2019] EWHC 2142 (Ch) – a successful application for freezing relief in the context of a complex fraud claim.

Publications of note

• Loose and Griffiths on Liquidators 9^th Ed. (2019). Contributor.

Transaction Avoidance in Insolvencies 3^rd Ed. (2018). Contributor

Career

Called: 2015 (Lincoln’s Inn).

Memberships

Chancery Bar Association
Commercial Bar Association

Education

Bar Professional Training Course (Outstanding), City Law School. Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction), City Law School. BA Philosophy & Theology, University of Oxford.

Lincoln’s Inn: Hubert Greenland Scholarship, Buchanan Prize, Hardwicke Scholarship, Lord Bowen Scholarship.