Praised for its ‘good breadth of coverage’, Fountain Court Chambers boasts strong capabilities in fraud, professional negligence, and banking disputes. A key member of the set, Bankim Thanki KC is experienced in commercial disputes in the BVI, as well as Trinidad & Tobago. Ben Valentin KC successfully challenged the jurisdiction of the Bermuda Court in AML v Madison Pacific and others, a dispute concerning mining assets in Sierra Leone. Recently handling a financial dispute, Nico Leslie’s standout matters include representing the defendants in Cowan v Equis Special LP & Ors, a $500m Cayman fraud action. With experience in appeal work, Anneliese Day KC’s recent workload encompasses Equis Special LP v Cowan, a $440m conspiracy claim.
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Art & Cultural Property; Banking and Finance; Commercial Litigation; Fraud – Civil; International Arbitration; Offshore; Professional Negligence.
Specialises in commercial litigation with particular expertise in banking and finance, insurance and reinsurance, fraud/asset recovery, jurisdiction and conflict of laws, professional negligence, art law, international and domestic arbitration. Chambers & Partners ‘Banking & Finance Junior of the Year’ 2022.
Recent practice includes a number of high-profile commercial cases, including acting in the US$1 billion PIFSS litigation for a Kuwaiti sovereign wealth fund, acting for the administrators of the NMC Group in multi-billion dollar litigation and arbitration across the world, and acting for the successful investors in the Czech Photovoltaic arbitrations in The Hague and Vienna. Has particular experience of litigation in offshore jurisdictions (Bermuda, BVI, Cayman and St Lucia) and in Hong Kong and Singapore, and has extensive experience of international arbitration under the rules of numerous arbitral institutions.
Career
Called 2010; Lincoln’s Inn.
Publications of note: co-author, ‘The Law of Assignment (3rd Edition)’ with Mr Justice Marcus Smith; co-author of chapter on ’Choses in Action’ for Halsbury’s Laws of England; contributing editor of Gough on Company Charges (2nd edition, forthcoming); contributing editor, Restitution chapter, ‘Bullen, Leake and Jacob’s Precedents of Pleading’.
Languages
Fluent/Near Native French, Italian, Croatian/Serbian; Fluent Spanish.
Memberships
COMBAR.
Education
Eton College (King’s Scholarship); Christ’s College, Cambridge (2007 BA Modern Languages, Starred Double First); City Law School (2009 GDL, Commendation); City Law School (2010 BVC, Outstanding).
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