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Wilberforce Chambers
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LONDON
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Bobby Friedman
Position
Bobby is, as described in the legal directories, a “rising star” who is “staggeringly clever” and “noted for his advocacy capabilities and the practical approach he takes to cases.”
He has a very busy practice focusing on commercial disputes, including civil fraud – with extensive experience of freezing injunctions, as well as Russian/CIS disputes; company and insolvency; commercial trusts; and pensions. Bobby appears frequently in both the Commercial and Chancery Courts as well as in arbitrations. He has substantial offshore experience and has been called to the bar in the BVI.
Bobby works well both as sole counsel and when being led as a junior. He frequently appears unled in the High Court, often against silks, in high-value and complicated matters, and has also acted in a junior in numerous difficult and high-profile disputes. Bobby recognises the importance of a detailed and analytical approach, and combines this with pragmatism and tenacity.
Career
Called 2011; Gray’s Inn. Visiting lecturer in Contract Law and European Law at City University (2010-11).
Memberships
Commercial Bar Association; Association of Pension Lawyers; Chancery Bar Association.
Education
Emmanuel College, Cambridge (BA (1st Class), MA); City University (GDL (Distinction, 1st in year), BPTC (Outstanding)). President, Cambridge Union (2004).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Art and cultural property
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1London Bar > Insolvency
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 5Bobby Friedman – Wilberforce Chambers ‘Excellent communicator. Gives clear and incisive advice.’
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Bobby Friedman – Wilberforce Chambers ‘Bobby has the extremely useful ability to provide cogent, focussed advice on the law, while also keeping in mind the commercial drivers a client will be considering. His advocacy is robust and persuasive.’
Wilberforce Chambers is recognised as an ‘excellent commercial Chancery set’, offering specialist expertise across various areas including banking and finance, insolvency, fraud, and commercial contract disputes. In a notable cryptocurrency dispute, John Wardell KC leads Bobby Friedman and Sri Carmichael in representing the claimant in Tulip Trading LLP v Bitcoin Association following a hack on the computer of CEO Craig Steven Wright, raising questions about whether Bitcoin developers owe fiduciary duties to fraud victims. Alan Gourgey KC represents principal defendants in Bourlakova v Bourlakov, a case involving assets worth nearly £3bn belonging to the late Russian businessman Oleg Burlakov. Additionally, in Mitchell v Al Jabar, Clare Stanley KC defended Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber regarding whether directors of BVI companies owe fiduciary duties post-liquidation.
London Bar > Fraud: civil
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Bobby Friedman –Wilberforce Chambers ‘Bobby is commercially aware, astute and highly intelligent. He is pure class.’
Wilberforce Chambers is ‘excellent for fraud, insolvency and commercial Chancery work’, regularly handling claims involving allegations of misrepresentation, conspiracy, breach of duty, as well as accessory liability. Tim Penny KC was instructed by the first and seventeenth defendant in Suppipat and others v Narongdej and others, a $1bn claim arising from allegations of fraud and asset-stripping related to dealings in the shares of Thailand’s largest wind farm company, Wind Energy Holding. In Harrington & Charles Trading Company and others v Mehta and others, another $1bn claim, Thomas Grant KC and Emily McKechnie are defending various members of the Mehta family, accused of misappropriating and laundering proceeds from their diamond and precious metals businesses in an international fraud scheme. Alan Gourgey KC, leading Bobby Friedman, act for the defendants in Steenbok Newco 10 SARL v Formal Holdings, a fraud claim advanced by assignees of the Steinhoff Group, involving allegations of misappropriation and laundering of £90m in payments made by the now-liquidated South African conglomerate.