The set is widely recognised as one of the leading chambers in its core specialist areas of restructuring and insolvency, commercial litigation, fraud and asset recovery, company and, arbitration, trusts, pensions, professional negligence and property. With 81 barristers (36 KCs), chambers is able to offer specialist barristers at all levels of seniority and across the spectrum of commercial and chancery work. With its strength and depth of expertise, members of chambers undertake many of the most complex and important cases in the UK and overseas. Members work hard to build and maintain strong long-term relationships with their clients, including leading UK and international law firms, multinational corporations, major organisations, private companies and individuals. Clients value the modern quality of chambers’ clerking and organisational management and the approachable service provided by barristers and clerks
Wilberforce has a strong reputation for litigating and advising on complex corporate and personal insolvency issues, both domestically and internationally. Members are experienced in acting for creditors (secured and unsecured), debtors, officeholders (liquidators etc) and others in matters involving liquidation, administration, receiverships, CVAs and IVAs, bankruptcy, asset tracing and recovery. Our group includes winners and nominees for insolvency and restructuring industry awards and authors of leading textbooks in the area.
The set has a well-established reputation for assisting overseas clients and appearing in high-profile and important cases across all of the principal International and Offshore jurisdictions where English law, or common law and statutes based heavily on English law, apply. Many of our barristers are full members of, or have been called, ad hoc, to, the local Bars of the following jurisdictions:
Anguilla, The Bahamas, Bermuda, The British Virgin Islands, St. Kitts & Nevis, The Cayman Islands, Dubai, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Isle of Man, Jersey, Singapore, The Turks & Caicos Islands
Address
8 New Square, Lincoln’s Inn, London, WC2A 3QP
Telephone
+44 (0)20 7306 0102
Email
chambers@wilberforce.co.uk
Website
http://www.wilberforce.co.uk
Nicholas Luckman (practice director) +44 (0)20 7304 2856 / nluckman@wilberforce.co.uk
Hayley Duggan (business development and marketing manager) +44 (0)20 7304 2899 / hduggan@wilberforce.co.uk
Brian Green QC – Head of Chambers, Jonathan Seitler QC – Deputy Head of Chambers, John Martin KC, Stuart Isaacs KC, Lawrence Cohen KC, Ian Croxford KC, Robert Ham KC, John Furber KC, Terence Mowschenson KC, David Phillips KC, Michael Furness KC, John Wardell KC, Alan Gourgey KC, John McGhee KC, Gilead Cooper KC, Michael Tennet KC, Thomas Lowe KC, James Ayliffe KC, Lexa Hilliard KC, Paul Newman KC, Joanne Wicks KC, Martin Hutchings KC, Thomas Grant KC, Fenner Moeran KC, Marcia Shekerdemian KC, Clare Stanley KC, Tim Penny KC, Jonathan Davey KC, Jonathan Hilliard KC, Max Mallin KC, Julian Greenhill KC, Tiffany Scott KC, Nikki Singla KC, James Bailey KC, Zoë Barton KC, Andrew Mold KC, John Child, Thomas Seymour, David Pollard, Gabriel Fadipe, Graeme Halkerston, Andrew Child, Edward Sawyer, Stephen Brown, Thomas Robinson, Daniel Lewis, Emily McKechnie, Sebastian Allen, James Walmsley, Jennifer Seaman, Benjamin Faulkner, Anna Littler, James McCreath, Emer Murphy, Tom Roscoe, Jonathan Chew, Alice Hawker, Bobby Friedman, Simon Atkinson, Harriet Holmes, Sri Carmichael, Jack Watson, Jessica Brooke, Michael Ashdown, James Goodwin, Rachael Earle, Elizabeth Houghton, Tim Matthewson, Jamie Holmes, Joseph Steadman, Tara Taylor, Daniel Scott, Jia Wei Lee, Francesca Mitchell, Daniel Petrides, Lemuel Lucan-Wilson, Caspar Bartscherer, Ramganesh Lakshman, Benjamin Slingo, John Grocott Barrett, Samuel Cathro
Jules Sher QC – Door Tenant/Full-time Arbitrator, Sir Paul Morgan - Full time arbitrator, Caroline Furze – Door Tenant