Selborne Chambers

Maxwell has a standout and rapidly developing commercial chancery practice spanning commercial litigation, insolvency, property litigation, and contentious trusts and probate. He is regularly instructed, both led and unled, in complex, high-value and factually intensive disputes, including High Court litigation, appellate work, arbitration, and multi-day trials.

Maxwell is frequently entrusted with substantial matters beyond the level typically expected of his year of call and regularly appears against, and alongside, leading silks and ranked juniors across Chambers’ core practice areas. His recent work includes multi-million-pound shareholder disputes, LCIA arbitration, high-profile probate litigation, complex property and insolvency claims, and heavyweight commercial disputes involving allegations of fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, conspiracy, and financial misconduct.

He has developed particular expertise in disputes involving the overlap between commercial, insolvency and property law, including shareholder disputes, transactions at an undervalue, proprietary claims, trusts of land, and recovery actions involving allegations of asset dissipation and fraud.

Maxwell was appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel in 2023 and is building a significant body of government and regulatory work alongside his commercial practice.