4 Stone Buildings is well-regarded for its extensive coverage of the full range of insolvency and restructuring matters, and boasts specialisms in directors’ disqualification cases and insolvency work on behalf of the Government. Jonathan Crow KC is leading Adam Holliman in Proman Holding (Barbados) Ltd. v CL Financial Ltd, a substantial international dispute relating to the validity of a sale and purchase agreement and is a pending Privy Council appeal. Tiran Nersessian KC is representing the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in the high-profile contractual claim against PPE Medpro, involving complex aspects of insolvency law in the recovery of public funds following controversial PPE procurement during the Covid pandemic. Andrew De Mestre KC is instructed in Thames Water Restructuring Plan, and represented the plan company before the Court of Appeal. Tiran Nersessian KC took silk in March 2026.
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