Usman has a broad commercial and modern chancery practice with a particular focus on company and insolvency law, civil fraud and asset tracing, banking/financial services and offshore litigation.
Usman was admitted as a Barrister of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands) in 2021.
His current and recent work includes:
- Acting for Provisional Liquidators of an investment fund in BVI proceedings challenging their appointment (with Ben Valentin QC of Fountain Court Chambers);
- Acting for the Joint Liquidators of a company holding highly valuable assets in complex BVI proceedings (with David Allison QC of South Square Chambers);
- Sara & Hossein Asset Holdings Ltd v Blacks Outdoor Retail Ltd [2020] EWCA Civ 1521: pursuing an appeal to the Supreme Court concerning the construction of commercial agreements (in this case a commercial lease) (led by Brie Stevens-Hoare QC and Morayo Fagborun Bennett of Gatehouse Chambers);
- Maranello Rosso Ltd v Lohomij BV & Oths [2021] EWHC 2452 (Ch): pursuing an appeal to the Court of Appeal in this $70m+ conspiracy claim (led by Justin Fenwick QC and Tim Chelmick);
- Acting for the Claimants in a £25m+ unfair prejudice petition against a public multinational company (led by Matthew Bradley QC); and
- Appearing successfully in three interlocutory applications in the Chancery Division in a £15m+ fraud claim (sole counsel at the interlocutory stage).
While the majority of Usman’s work sees him acting as a junior in weighty commercial litigation, Usman has considerable unled advocacy experience and has conducted trials in the High Court (Chancery Division and London Circuit Commercial Court) as sole counsel. Usman is also familiar with appellate proceedings and has succeeded, as sole counsel, in appeals in the County Court. Usman has also been led in the Court of Appeal on three occasions and is currently instructed in an appeal before the Supreme Court.
Prior to pupillage, Usman taught property and trusts law as a Visiting Lecturer and Examiner at King’s College London and spent a year working in the Professional Indemnity Department at Linklaters.
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