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LONDON
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Timothy Killen
Work Department
Arbitration, Commercial Dispute Resolution, Commercial Fraud, Construction, Insurance, Private International Law, Professional Negligence, Property Damage
Position
Tim specialises in commercial disputes and arbitrations, with particular knowledge and experience across a number of industry sectors, particularly in financial services, insurance and reinsurance, building and construction, and energy. Tim’s practice encompasses various areas of specialist commercial law including expertise in commercial fraud, private international law, international trade and professional negligence.
Many of Tim’s cases have an international element, and he has notable familiarity with disputes in and concerning the Middle East.
Career
MA (Oxon), Called to the Bar 2010 (Gray’s Inn).
(Pegasus Trust Scholar – Inner Temple; Arden Senior Scholar – Gray’s Inn; Prince of Wales Scholar – Gray’s Inn).
Prior to joining chambers Tim taught law at university level. Tim maintains an involvement in academic law and has taught at the Universities of Oxford, Birmingham, London (Birkbeck), and Osnabrück.
Memberships
COMBAR, TECBAR, LCLCBA
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Insurance and reinsurance
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Timothy Killen – 2 Temple Gardens ‘Tim is super efficient, exceptionally bright and hard working. He is also easy to get along with, down to earth and very commercial.’
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 5Timothy Killen – 2 Temple Gardens ‘Tim is a brilliant legal analyst. As an advocate, he mesmerizes judges and arbitrators alike. He has a stellar reputation.’
2 Temple Gardens has experience bringing and defending claims against a variety of professional such as surveyors, architects, solicitors, and construction professionals. Charles Dougherty KC successfully represented a silk against allegations of negligence and costs fraud. Led by Dougherty, Timothy Killen is instructed to act for a large retail group in the Middle East in a claim against insurance brokers for business interruption losses arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Doré Green regularly handles professional liability cases arising within the construction sector; he recently acted in the case of London Borough of Hillingdon v Paradigm Homes and Others, which concerned the development and fire safety strategy of Packet Boat House.
London Bar > International arbitration: counsel
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Timothy Killen –2 Temple Gardens ‘Tim is a strong case leader, and has a good head for strategy, combined with a real wealth of knowledge on international arbitration and the finer points of commercial disputes. He has particular specialist expertise and experience of international arbitrations in Dubai and MENA generally.’
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Timothy Killen – 2 Temple Gardens ‘Timothy is extremely thoughtful and thorough. His advocacy is effective and he has a good rapport with judges.’
London Bar > Fraud: civil
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Timothy Killen –2 Temple Gardens ‘His advocacy is quiet, calm, and utterly devastating. He quickly has judges eating out of the palm of his hand.’
Middle East: The English Bar > Commercial
(Leading juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Timothy Killen – 2 Temple Gardens ‘Tim has outstanding intellectual ability and close knowledge of DIFC law and procedure and of political and cultural issues in the region. His advocacy style is beguilingly understated, and he is listened to by judges, arbitrators and opposing counsel.’
Clients praise 2 Temple Gardens as a ‘fantastic set’ and point out its expertise in ‘professional indemnity and insurance/reinsurance issues’. The set is active in the DIFC where Charles Dougherty KC recently led Timothy Killen in Lals Holding v Emirates Insurance and SIACI Insurance Brokers, the first business interruption insurance case of its type in the jurisdiction. The team also covers work in the ADGM recently, such as in Global Aerospace Underwriting Managers Ltd and Ors v Global Private Investments Ltd where Doughty KC led Lucas Fear-Segal in a diminution in value claim.