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Mr Alan Steinfeld KC
Position
“Star of the Bar” Alan Steinfeld KC is recognised in the legal directories for his impressive expertise in commercial and traditional chancery, commercial litigation and fraud, company, partnership, insolvency and business restructuring, private client including in particular international trusts, professional negligence and pensions. A CEDR qualified mediator, he also has extensive experience in international arbitrations, both as a popular and experienced arbitrator as well as advocate.
Alan appears in not only all the UK courts including the Privy Council, but also regularly advises and appears in the Cayman Islands, Channel Islands, the BVI, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the Isle of Man and Hong Kong.
Career
Called 1968; QC 1987; deputy High Court Judge 1994 (Chancery and Queens Bench Division); Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn 1996; called to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court.
Memberships
- Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists
- Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court
- Chancery Bar Association
- Commercial Bar Association
- European Circuit of the Bar of England and Wales
- Hong Kong Bar Association
- Insolvency Lawyers Association
Education
Downing College, Cambridge (BA Hons LLB).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Partnership
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Crossing over with the set’s reputation for Chancery work, XXIV Old Buildings is known for its ‘great strength’ in the partnership area, handling a full spectrum of partnership law in farming, legal and finance both domestically and abroad. Elspeth Talbot Rice KC and Alan Steinfeld KC are two silks active in partnership work, while turning to the set’s juniors Helen Galley and Hugh Miall are noted for their practice covering traditional partnerships, LLPs and joint ventures.
London Bar > Private client: trusts and probate
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1London Bar > Company
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Alan Steinfeld KC – XXIV Old Buildings ‘Marvellously bright, Alan commands respect in and out of court.’
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 5Alan Steinfeld KC –XXIV Old Buildings ‘Alan is truly exceptional. His advice and guidance are the amongst the very best, and his thought processes are impossible to replicate, but the end result is always reliably successful.’
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3London Bar > Fraud: civil
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3London Bar > Insolvency
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1The English Bar Offshore > The English Bar Offshore
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Alan Steinfeld KC –XXIV Old Buildings