Profile
Litigation and advisory work in company law, corporate insolvency, corporate finance, financial services, partnership (including LLPs).
Education
Brasenose College, Oxford and Harvard Law School
Degrees and awards
BA Jurisprudence (Oxon); BCL (Oxon); LLM (Harvard)
Vinerian Scholarship for the top First in the BCL in 1980
John F Kennedy Scholarship to Harvard Law School, 1980-1981
Career
Fellow and Tutor in Law, Brasenose College, Oxford and CUF Lecturer, University of Oxford, 1982-1988
Visiting Professor at Boston University School of Law, USA, 1987
Called to the Bar, 1989
Practised at Erskine Chambers since 1990 (with a career break from 2007 to September 2008)
Publications
Assistant and then Consulting Editor of Butterworths Company Law Cases, 1983-2006
Recent cases
Hague v Nam Tai Electronics [2006] UKPC 52
appeal from the CA of the British Virgin Islands to the Privy Council involving the construction of articles of association
Equitable Life v Ernst & Young and others (2005)
acted for one of the executive directors of Equitable Life - the case settled after several months of trial