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Terence Mowschenson KC
Position
Terence is a chancery/commercial practitioner with extensive litigation and advisory experience in all aspects of financial and commercial matters. In particular, he has established an expertise and reputation in the fields of banking law, corporate finance and financing arrangements, civil fraud and asset recovery, company law (including shareholders agreements and disputes, stock exchange trading and broking), financial services (including disciplinary matters), insolvency, insurance, partnership and joint ventures, professional liability, and trusts (both commercial and private) including breach of trust. Terence has been admitted in the BVI and called to the East Caribbean Bar.
Career
Qualified 1977, Middle Temple; QC 1995; assistant recorder 1998; recorder 2000; part-time chairman Financial Services and Markets Act Tribunal 2001; deputy High Court judge 2003; part-time chairman Pensions Regulator Tribunal 2005; ADR mediator; Fellow Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 1990; ad hoc admitted to the bars of Bermuda and Bahamas.
Memberships
Barristers’ Benevolent Association (Chairman); Chancery Bar Association; Commercial Bar Association; International Bar Association; International Chamber of Commerce; London Court of International Arbitration; Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Arbitratiion.
Education
Peterhouse; Queen Mary College, University of London (LLB Hons 1975); Exeter College, Oxford (1976 BCL); FCI Arb (1989).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Company
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Terence Mowschenson KC – Wilberforce Chambers ‘With enormous experience in the area, Terry remains a go-to advisor and advocate on complex matters of corporate governance.’
Wilberforce Chambers has ‘strength-in-depth in all areas to the highest standard’ for insolvency and company law matters. The set has ‘a wide range of amazing juniors all the way up to the KCs, but particularly a phenomenal stable of mid-level juniors – you can’t go wrong’. Members are sought after for both domestic and cross-border company law work, including financial assistance, shareholder disputes and directors’ duties matters. Lexa Hilliard KC recently acted for the defendant in Titanium Capital Investments Limited, Philip Falzon Sant Manduca & Others v. Jonathan Hughes, Hughes Group Limited & Others, a high-value dispute between former partners of a business selling Covid tests. In Re Zaha Hadid, the vastly experienced Terence Mowschenson KC conducted an inquiry into corporate governance at the architectural practice of the late Dame Zaha Hadid. In 2022, the set recruited Thomas Grant KC from Maitland Chambers, who handled Wells v Hornshaw, Re Transwaste Aggregates for the claimants, which resulted in a fifteen-day High Court trial in respect of an unfair prejudice petition. Outstanding junior Sri Carmichael is frequently instructed on s.994 unfair prejudice petitions and breach of directors’ duty claims.
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Terence Mowschenson KC –Wilberforce Chambers ‘A fantastic and very incisive advocate – although he understands all the complexities of the case, he focuses on the key, winning points. Clients never fail to be impressed by the quality of his work.’
London Bar > Insolvency
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 5The English Bar Offshore > The English Bar Offshore
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Terence Mowschenson KC – Wilberforce Chambers ‘Terry commands the respect of the court, and is a persuasive and engaging advocate with sound judgement.’