Call: 1996
A “great team player” and “a very talented intellect” who does “sterling work”, Alex is a strong modern commercial and chancery litigator who brings commitment, clear analysis, hard work and pragmatic advice to every dispute. He aims rapidly to identify the client’s goals and then to pursue them with a commercially effective strategy.
Recommended as a Leading Junior for Professional Negligence in the 2011 Legal 500 (and previously), the Directories have also quoted clients describing Alex as “very client friendly”, “responsive”, “excellent to deal with on a day to day basis”, and as having a “user friendly attitude in cases”. He is recognised for providing clear advice, calm guidance and for working well in large teams of litigators. Alex prides himself in developing strong working relationships and in quickly gaining the confidence of those instructing and working with him.
Much of Alex’s work is financial in nature, involving banking, financial products, pensions, tax and trusts disputes both on and offshore.
Alex practises across a wide range of professional liability work acting both for claimants and defendants in claims against solicitors, barristers, surveyors, accountants, tax advisers and financial services professionals.
Alex benefits from having trained and spent his early years in practice in renowned chancery commercial chambers. He therefore also has broad experience of company, partnership, insolvency, trusts, pensions, tax, property and landlord and tenant disputes.
Alex’s particular expertise is in handling complex, multi-party, document heavy litigation in which he frequently leads more junior counsel. He is also regularly instructed at short notice to seek urgent injunctive and other pre-emptive relief, including freezing injunctions, search orders, Norwich Pharmacal and Bankers Trust orders.
Alex’s practice has a distinctly international flavour, having acted in disputes from Africa to Fiji, from St Lucia to the Channel Islands, and from the BVI to Mauritius. Born in Sweden and spending part of his childhood in Singapore and then Malaysia, he is comfortable in an unfamiliar environment and enjoys travel and working with clients and lawyers in different jurisdictions. He has appeared as sole counsel in a number of appeals to the Privy Council.
Alex is a member of COMBAR, the Chancery Bar Association, the Professional Negligence Bar Association, the London Common Law & Commercial Bar Association and the South Eastern Circuit. He undertakes work for the Bar Pro Bono Unit.
Publications
Alex wrote the “Property, Planning and Environment” chapter of Leigh-Ann Mulcahy’s Human Rights and Civil Practice (Sweet and Maxwell, London 2001)
Education
B.A. (Bristol) Dip. Law
Languages
French