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Mr George Bompas KC
Work Department
Company law (all aspects, advisory and litigation, including minority shareholder proceedings, insolvency and asset recovery), banking/insurance, financial services law, and professional negligence.
Position
Head of Chambers.
Company law (all aspects, advisory and litigation, including minority shareholder proceedings, insolvency and asset recovery), banking/insurance, financial services law & professional negligence.
Amongst recent cases: representing the successful appellant in the ground-breaking Marex Financial Ltd v Sevilleja appeal to the Supreme Court ([2020] UKSC 31), Official Receiver v Batmanghelidjh & Ors: Re Keeping Kids Company, Bott & Co Solicitors v Ryanair [2019]1 WLR 3375 (solicitors’ lien, Supreme Court appeal pending), and Global Gaming Ventures [2018] EWCA Civ 68 (company law and receivership).
Sits as an arbitrator.
Career
- Called 1975
- Junior Counsel to the DTI 1989-94
- Silk 1994
- Deputy High Court Judge 2003
- Ordinary Judge of the Courts of Appeal of Guernsey & Jersey (2014 to date)
George Bompas QC has vast experience in major, high profile corporate matters of public interest. He has given expert evidence / opinions for use in foreign jurisdictions, including in the USA, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland.
George Bompas QC is called to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands and the Bar in the DIFC Court, Dubai; and for specific cases, to the Bars of Trinidad and Tobago and the Cayman Islands. In these jurisdictions he has appeared in complex, high value and important cases.
Amongst recent cases in the UK: representing the successful appellant in the ground-breaking Marex Financial Ltd v Sevilleja appeal to the Supreme Court (reflective loss, [2020] UKSC 31), Official Receiver v Batmanghelidjh & Ors: Re Keeping Kids Company, Bott & Co Solicitors v Ryanair [2019]1 WLR 3375 (solicitors’ lien, Supreme Court appeal pending), and Global Gaming Ventures [2018] EWCA Civ 68 (company law and receivership). Other notable cases: MF Global UK Ltd, Shogun Finance Ltd v Hudson (House of Lords), OBG v Allan and Giles v Rhind.
Publications
- ‘Company Investigations’ in Tolley’s Company Law
- ‘Funding Litigation and Assigning Claims’ and ‘Investigations’ in Butterworths Practical Insolvency.
- ‘Contracts’ in Litigation in the Time of Covid-19
Memberships
- Chancery Bar Association and COMBAR. Called to the Bars of the British Virgin Islands and the DIFC, and for specific cases to the Bars of Trinidad and Tobago and of the Cayman Islands. LCIA arbitrator.
Education
Scholar Oriel College, Oxford (1974 BA & 1976 MA: Jurisprudence (1st) & Classical Honour Mods (1st).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Company
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1George Bompas KC – 4 Stone Buildings ‘George has an excellent legal brain, being able quickly to analyse large quantities of material and provide first-class advice on strategy and merits.’
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2George Bompas KC –4 Stone Buildings ‘George has an excellent legal brain, being able quickly to analyse large quantities of material and provide first-class advice on strategy and merits.’
4 Stone Buildings is an ‘excellent chambers with an impeccable reputation for having first-rate advocates‘. The set has a significant track record in major disputes in both the Commercial and Chancery courts, ranging from disputes over commercial contracts, to boardroom fallouts from market disasters. In Dargamo Holdings Ltd v Avonwick Holdings Ltd, Jonathan Crow KC is instructed in an appeal arising from a dispute between three Ukrainian oligarchs, the matter involving complex allegations of deceit, causation issues, and conflicts over choice of law; and in Tribe v Elborne Mitchell, George Bompas KC successfully defended, with an order for indemnity costs, a claim for an increased share of partnership profits by a former partner. Particularly focused on high-value disputes in England and Wales, as well as offshore jurisdictions, Alexander Cook KC took silk in March 2023, while former member Paul Greenwood became an Insolvency and Companies Court judge in October 2022.