Signature Litigation LLP

Commercial Litigation

Colin is a Senior Associate at Signature Litigation’s Gibraltar office with a broad depth of experience, having advised clients in a wide array of contentious and non-contentious matters.

Whilst Colin’s main focus is on dispute resolution, his non-contentious work has involved large scale corporate and transactional matters. He has previously advised on complex trust and company structures, multi-jurisdictional corporate finance transactions, having acted on both sides for clients involved in large lending facility agreements, and also provides general corporate and commercial advice to local businesses in Gibraltar.

Colin’s contentious practice has previously involved criminal work, where he was able to gain ample court experience. More recently, his practice has shifted to commercial litigation with a focus on corporate and commercial disputes and insolvency litigation. He has also been instructed in admiralty matters, which include high value ship arrests (he was recently instructed by the previous over of a multi-million pound oil tanker that was arrested in Gibraltar due to issues with Russian sanctions). He also has substantial experience advising on disputes in the following practice areas: corporate (including unfair prejudice petitions, breach of fiduciary claims against directors and disputes between shareholders), commercial (including breaches of joint venture agreements, disputes concerning private equity funds and he continues to advise one of the largest air-conditioning manufacturers in Europe in relation to an ongoing dispute with a national supplier), construction, landlord and tenant, employment (acting for both employer and employee), contract, trade licencing and distributed ledger technology. He frequently advises clients in a broad spectrum of financial services disputes which will often include elements of regulatory work.

Colin also has experience in arbitrations, both commercial and international, having acted for clients in arbitrations under the LCIA Rules and in a very large investor-State arbitration under ICSID rules (acting for the investor). Colin also has a growing insolvency practice, having successfully acted for the cell liquidator of a private cell company against a regulated trust administrator in Gibraltar. This was the first time in the jurisdiction that an administration order (and subsequently a liquidation order) was granted by the Supreme Court against a regulated trust administrator. Colin continued to act for the joint liquidators in this matter, where he was required to advise on many issues concerning the liquidation of the regulated entity, and frequently appeared in the Gibraltar Supreme Court, unled, in relation to numerous related applications.

Colin’s contentious work has seen him regularly appear before the Supreme Court of Gibraltar (unled) and before the Gibraltar Court of Appeal (led).

Colin was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2010 and was subsequently called to the Gibraltar Bar in 2011.

Associate, Attias & Levy, 2011 - 2013; Associate, ISOLAS, 2014 - 2015; Legal Counsel, Companies House Gibraltar, 2016 - 2018; Associate, Signature Litigation, 2018 - 2022; Senior Associate, Signature Litigation, 2022.

English and Spanish.

The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn.

University of Reading, LLB (Hons) Law – 2006 – 2009; University of Law (then, College of Law), Bloomsbury, London, Bar Vocational Course – 2009 - 2010.