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Wilberforce Chambers
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Tim Penny KC
Position
Tim has a strong commercial and chancery litigation practice, specialising in the areas of commercial fraud, shareholders and partnership disputes, financial services related claims and breach of confidence, ‘soft’ intellectual property and sports disciplinary disputes.
Tim has a particular expertise in worldwide freezing orders and search orders, and much of his work involves cross-border and conflicts of laws issues. He has been involved in cases dealing with the admissibility of evidence. Tim has also been involved in the leading recent cases on collective investment schemes. He is regularly instructed in high value litigation and has conducted numerous successful High Court trials. He is well used to both leading a team of counsel and solicitors as well as working within a large team, often including solicitors within this jurisdiction and lawyers in other ‘offshore’ jurisdictions.
Career
Call: 1988, KC: 2016.
Memberships
Member of the LCIA.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Tim Penny KC –Wilberforce Chambers ‘Tim is thorough in his approach, covering cases from all angles – also a very fine advocate.’
One of the largest commercial Chancery chambers in London, Wilberforce Chambers houses ‘a lot of good people for commercial disputes‘. Recent highlights include Alan Gourgey KC, in Arma Partners Limited v Wejo Limited, defending approximately £16m claims over a SPAC transaction, a relatively rare incident of litigation over special purposes acquisition companies. In Suppipat & others v Narongdej & 16 others, Tim Penny KC was leading counsel for the main defendant (as well as the 17th defendant) in a $2bn claim, which arose from an alleged fraud involving a Thai wind farm company. In a boost to the set’s silk ranks, Thomas Grant KC, who has particular experience in heavyweight, multi-party disputes, joined from Maitland Chambers in October 2022.
London Bar > Fraud: civil
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Tim Penny KC –Wilberforce Chambers ‘Tim is an outstanding advocate. He is particularly adept at dealing with enormous volumes of documentary material, which can be a hallmark of complex fraud trials.’
London Bar > Banking and finance (including consumer credit)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Tim Penny KC – Wilberforce Chambers ‘Tim leaves no stone unturned, always trying to find the weaknesses in our own case in order to address the same at an early stage. He combines that approach with good advocacy in order to achieve successful outcomes.’