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No5 Barristers’ Chambers continues to offer ‘strength in depth at all levels’ when it comes to commercial dispute resolution. Nicholas Cobill is praised by clients as ’tremendously clever with a brilliant legal mind’. He regularly appears in high-value multi-track proceedings in the High Court; in A F Kopp Limited v HSBC UK Bank PLC he is acting for HSBC in relation to claims brought by a former business customer for breach of contact and breach of duty of care arising from the suspension of a foreign currency account during an anti-money laundering review - the claim concerns the effect of a standard banking clause that excludes liability for direct or consequential loss. Yasmin Yasseri has an excellent reputation for her ‘hands-on approach’ and ’keen eye for detail’. In Muylle-Facon BV v Combrink & Others she is defending her client against accusations that it procured a breach of contact. At the more junior end, Annie Townley continues to build a strong practice.
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Work Department
Business and Property
Position
Barrister in the Business and Property Group at No5 Barristers' Chambers.
Career
Yasmin is a commercial and financial law specialist. She has a busy practice that spans all aspects of advisory work, drafting and litigation in the fields of company, LLP and partnership law, corporate restructuring and insolvency, bankruptcy, banking, financial services, professional negligence and civil fraud. She is sought-after for her technical ability and for her commercial and pragmatic approach to client issues.
Yasmin was appointed as a Recorder (South Eastern Circuit, Family) in 2020.
Notable Cases include:
KKIG UK Limited v Triload Invest SRO [2020] EWHC 2703 (Ch)
Little v Bloomsbury Law Solicitors [2019] EWHC 3510 (Ch)
Re Diamond Hangar Ltd [2019] EWHC 224 (Ch)
Lisa Walton and Thomas Walton v Shan Allman [2015] EWHC 3325 (Ch)
Michael Hunt v HMRC [2014] UKFTT 1094 (TC)
SafetyNet Security v Freedom Security and Coppage [2013] EWCA Civ 1176
Languages
Persian
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association (Member of Equality and Diversity sub-committee);
Midlands Chancery & Commercial Bar Association
Education
MA (Cantab) Law;
LLM (London) Corporate and Commercial Law
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