Maitland Chambers is ‘a great set, full of absolute stars’ that is ’very well respected’ in commercial cases and is renowned particularly in disputes at the intersection of fraud, insolvency, and company work. Members have led on the largest civil fraud cases with Richard Morgan KC having led Benjamin John in part of the Privatbank v Kolomoisky & ors. dispute, with work relating to alleged transactions defrauding creditors, and David Mumford KC is leading James Kinman for one group of shareholder claimants in litigation against mining company Glencore related to allegations of failure to disclose alleged bribery and corruption in company prospectuses. Elsewhere in Chambers, Duncan McCombe acted for the British Bankers’ Association, which was accused of collusion and fraud by the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, one of the longest-running pieces of commercial litigation in the financial services sector. Watson Pringle KC and Richard Morgan KC took silk in 2026, and Arnold Ayoo joined the set in July 2025. Andrew Twigger KC, as was, was appointed to the High Court bench in September 2026.
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