Top Restructuring & Insolvency Cases of 2022

On Thursday 8th December, James Fagan and Piers Digby hosted our final Junior Programme webinar of this year on “Top Restructuring & Insolvency Cases of 2022”. During this webinar, James and Piers recapped some of the top restructuring and insolvency cases of the year. Junior Programme events are aimed at recently qualified lawyers and consist […]

An Unsettling Saga for Creditors

Christopher Boardman KC features in The Times today on an important insolvency judgment in the Supreme Court, involving subsidiaries of BAT and Sequana. “More certainty and clarity from the Supreme Court on a range of questions would have been welcome. The judgment may be something of a lost opportunity, as substantial differences of opinion were […]

The CIGA measures – where are we now and where are we going?

On Tuesday 19th July, Tina Kyriakides, Katie Longstaff and James Fagan presented a webinar on ‘The CIGA measures – where are we now and where are we going?’ On the 21st June 2022 the Insolvency Service published its interim report on the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2000 (CIGA), which considers the three permanent CIGA […]

‘Trustees’ powers of investment’ and ‘Professional charity fundraisers’

'Trustees’ powers of investment' and 'Professional charity fundraisers'

A Junior Programme: Charities webinar on “Trustees’ powers of investment” and “Professional charity fundraisers” presented by Natalie Pratt and Matthew Mills. Trustees’ powers of investment Natalie considers the recent decision in Butler-Sloss & Ors v The Charity Commission & HM Attorney General [2022] EWHC 974 (Ch) Please find the slides attached, here. Professional charity fundraisers […]

Louis Grandjouan

Louis formerly practised in the London and New York offices of a leading US law firm, where he worked primarily on cross-border finance and restructuring transactions. He is admitted as a solicitor (England & Wales – non-practising) and attorney (New York). In 2020-2021, Louis was the judicial assistant to Lord Stephens in the UK Supreme […]

Jamie Cockfield

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His recent cases include: Otitoju v Onwordi [2023] EWHC 2665 (Ch): Jamie acted for the Claimant in the case of Otitoju v Onwordi, in the High Court before (HHJ) Paul Matthews. The case an application for an injunction and order pursuant to s.116 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 involving a burial dispute over which […]