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Edward Davies

Edward Davies - barrister at Erskine Chambers
Called: 1998
 
 

Profile

Edward Davies specialises in company law, corporate insolvency and related commercial matters.

Education

  • Inner Temple Princess Royal Scholarship
  • 1996-1997: St. Edmund Hall, Oxford - BCL (1st Class)
  • 1993-1996: Peterhouse, Cambridge - MA: Part 1A (1st Class), Part 1B (1st Class) and Part II (1st Class).

Practice

Company Law

Advice and litigation relating to:

  • Shareholders’ disputes and minority shareholders’ remedies
  • Directors’ duties
  • Company meetings and resolutions
  • Memoranda and articles of association
  • Dissolution and restoration of companies
  • Shareholders’ agreements
  • Company charges
  • Share capital including reductions of share capital and schemes of arrangement.
  • Disqualification of directors

Insolvency Law

Advice and litigation relating to:

  • Winding up petitions
  • Administration petitions
  • Receiverships and company charges
  • Creditors’ schemes of arrangement

Financial Services

  • Advice in relation to the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

Commercial

  • General commercial litigation, including professional negligence and applications for freezing injunctions.
  • Member of the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court.

Publications

  • Contributor to "Company Directors: Law and Liability"
  • Contributor to Practical Law Company, Freezing Injunction case study, precedents and drafting notes.

Case List

  • Anglo Petroleum Ltd v TFB (Mortgages) Ltd
    Ref: [2007] EWCA Civ 456, [2006] EWHC 258 (Ch)
    Section 151 of the Companies Act 1985 - Considering the scope of the concept of unlawful financial assistance in the light of judgement of Court of Appeal in Chaston v SWP Group plc
  • NBH Ltd v Hoare
    Ref: [2006] EWHC 73 (Ch)
    Section 320 of the Companies Act 1985, and conspiracy to divert corporate assets
  • Re McCarthy Surfacing Ltd
    Ref: [2006] EWHC Civ 181
    Dispute regarding standing to present a petition under section 459 of the Companies Act 1985
  • Eric Parham v F. Parham Ltd
    Ref: [2006] EWCA Civ 181
    Court of Appeal decision on interpretation of an employment contract
  • National Westminster Bank Plc v Bowles
    Ref: [2005] EWHC 182 (QB); [2006] EWHC 2024 (Comm)
    Claim under a guarantee, setting aside a default judgement
  • Carlo Spera v Curti Lifts (UK) Ltd
    Ref: [2006] EWHC 1355 (Ch)
    Rectification of a company's register of members.
  • SISU Capital Fund Ltd v Tucker
    Ref: [2005] EWHC 2170 (Ch)
    Conflicts of interest in company voluntary arrangements in the TXU Energy Group
  • Hunter v Senate Support Services Ltd
    Ref: [2004] EWHC 1085 (Ch)
    Forfeiture of shares and breach of fiduciary duty
  • Namco UK Limited
    Ref: [2003] 2 BCLC 78
    Opposing the appointment of provisional liquidators
  • Incasep Limited v. Jones
    Ref: [2002] EWCA Civ 961
    Directors' duties, unfair prejudice and winding up on the just and equitable ground.
  • Fiske Nominees Limited v Dwyka Diamonds Limited
    Ref: [2002] 2 BCLC 123
    Takeover offer, application under section 430C of the Companies Act 1985
  • Cooling Equipment Wholesale Ltd
    Ref: [2002] 2 BCLC 745
    Disputed winding up petition
  • Ryan Developments Limited
    Ref: [2002] 2 BCLC 792
    Costs on a winding up petition
  • Re Garuda Airlines
    Disputed creditors' Scheme of Arrangement
 
 
 
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