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Daniel Saoul KC successful in Court of Appeal asset recovery dispute

On 20 January 2023, the Court of Appeal handed down Judgment in Phoenix Group Foundation v Harbour Fund II LP & Others [2023] EWCA Civ 36,…

Daniel Saoul KC and Melody Hadfield act for successful Claimants in substantial Worldwide Freezing Order dispute

On 6 January 2023 the Commercial Court (HHJ Pelling KC) handed down Judgment in 4VVV Ltd v Spence & Others [2023] EWHC 1 (Comm), ruling in…

Mirror Mirror: Is the law now clear on reflective loss?

The principle of reflective loss has reared its head in multiple cases since 2020. Although the Supreme Court’s judgment in Sevilleja v Marex Financial Ltd [2020]…

Daniel Saoul KC and Lucy Colter speaking at FIRE International: Vilamoura

19th May 2022

Daniel Saoul KC and Lucy Colter will be speaking at the flagship asset recovery event FIRE International: Vilamoura hosted by ThoughtLeaders4Fire in Portugal on Thursday 19th…

Daniel Saoul KC acts for successful claimants in $300m cross-border tracing and enforcement battle

On 21 December 2021, Mr Justice Henshaw, sitting in the Commercial Court, handed down a significant judgment representing the latest chapter in the Kazakhstan Kagazy litigation,…

Justin Fenwick KC and Ben Smiley successfully defend the Former Administrators of One Blackfriars Limited in £250m High Court claim

Following hard-fought litigation commenced in 2017, and a fully remote trial held during 2020, judgment has recently been handed down in the case of Re One…

Disqualification undertakings and second chances—the correct approach to sections 8A and 17 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 (Ahmed v Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Industrial Strategy)

Restructuring & Insolvency analysis: The court held that a disqualified director’s rehabilitation from drug and alcohol addiction did not amount to ‘special circumstances’ for the purposes…

Eighteen members of 4 New Square ranked in the Chambers Global Guide 2021

Eighteen members of 4 New Square have been ranked in the 2021 Chambers and Partners Global Guide across International Arbitration, Public International Law, Offshore, Dispute Resolution:…

Sevilleja v Marex: Reflective Loss Restated

The Supreme Court’s decision in Sevilleja v. Marex Financial Ltd, 15 July 2020, fundamentally restates the doctrine of reflective loss in company law so that: A…

The impact of foreign insolvency proceedings on English law bank guarantees: ascertaining foreign law, the scope of the European Insolvency Regulation and the effect of pending actions

Shail Patel acted for the successful defendants at trial in Bank of Baroda v Maniar [2019] EWHC 2463 Comm, in resisting claims by the bank on…