Wilberforce Chambers's Lexa Hilliard KC represented the defendant in BHS Group Limited & Ors v Chappell, Henningson and Chandler, a liquidators’ claim against former directors of BHS for breach of fiduciary duty, negligence and wrongful trading. Terence Mowschenson KC acted for the respondents in O’Keefe and another v Caner and others, in which joint liquidators of Jersey companies brought claims alleging breach of directors’ duties and misfeasance. Thomas Grant KC handled very high-value s.238 proceedings in the Cayman Grand Court concerning the value of the minority shareholdings in Chinese social media company Weibo, while, turning to the set's juniors, Sri Carmichael recently acted as sole counsel defending a £50m fraud claim arising out of the liquidation of the Thomas Cook Group.
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Profile
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).
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