New Square Chambers is sought after by ultra-high-net-worth individuals, as well as institutional and corporate clients, in cases involving complex trusts and high-value assets. The set is home to Nicholas Le Poidevin KC, who boasts a thriving contentious trusts, wills, and estates practice, with particular expertise in litigation surrounding breaches of trust and trustees’ exercises of power. Alexander Learmonth KC is another notable silk, with experience in the removal of trustees, breaches of trust, and disputed estates. Among its juniors, Lynton Tucker‘s offshore trust practices predominately focuses on the Channel Islands, the Cayman Islands, and the BVI, and Mark Hubbard is another active international trusts disputes barrister.
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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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Testimonials
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- 'Charlie Sherwood has always been easy to deal with.'
- 'I’ve always found the clerks to be eminently helpful and polite.'
- 'The clerks are friendly and responsive.'
- 'For trusts and succession, this set has everything you want.'
- 'New Square Chambers has a fantastic collection of experienced private client practitioners. The Chambers also provides training and CPD seminars on a range of topics.'