New Square Chambers maintains a strong roster of company law specialists among the junior ranks. David Eaton Turner represented the defendant in BHS Group Limited (in liquidation) v Parladorio, who was allegedly a de facto or shadow director of the company and was pursued for wrongful trading and misfeasance. Another standout junior is Mark Hubbard, who in Landl & Ors v Hogg & Ors acted as sole English counsel for the liquidators of a protected cell company that collapsed following the death of the key player in a property development fund in Guernsey litigation. Robin Hollington KC has retired.
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Profile
Position
Mark is a Chancery barrister with a reputation as a litigator in commercial litigation featuring trusts, contentious trust and estate cases, civil fraud, shareholder disputes, company, insolvency and regulatory matters. He is often instructed to obtain or resist freezing injunctions and other urgent interim remedies. His practice has a substantial offshore and international element. Mark has particular experience of litigation in the Bahamas, the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey, Singapore and Switzerland and is praised by clients for his quick grasp of complex cases, and for the quality of his advocacy, advice, and client skills.
Publications: Protectors of Trusts (OUP 2013), 1st edition of new international practitioners work. Author of current series of practice notes on shareholder remedies for Lexis PSL.
Career
Called 1991. Registered Foreign Lawyer Singapore International Commercial Court 2020. Licensed Isle of Man Advocate since 2003 on case by case basis. Member of BSB Prosecuting Panel 2005-2019. Lectures internationally and writes on trusts, fraud, offshore litigation, conflicts of law and related topics.
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association, COMBAR, STEP, ACTAPS, CFLA, Tech Disputes Network.
Education
Merton College, Oxford (BA first); City University (Dip Law).
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