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Forsters LLP Offices
22 Baker Street
LONDON
W1U 3BW
England
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Bryan Shacklady
Work Department
Dispute Resolution
Position
Counsel
Career
Bryan is Counsel in the Dispute Resolution team at Forsters.
He has extensive experience of multi jurisdictional litigation, including acting for the successful party in a recent appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He has been involved in the proceedings giving rise to that appeal since before the original trial in the BVI Commercial Court (the longest ever trial in that Court), through the trial itself and the subsequent appeal before the Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. Bryan has also recently been involved in proceedings in the Cayman Islands, Saudi Arabia, Estonia and Luxembourg as well as in proceedings before the English High Court.
Bryan regularly acts for high net worth individuals in commercial or general litigation matters, either directly or through corporate vehicles. Bryan has also acted for corporate clients of all sizes as well as more unusual structures such as securitisation vehicles. He takes a commercial approach to resolving disputes by first identifying points of strength in a client’s position that can be utilised to achieve a favourable settlement. However, he is prepared to fight tenaciously for clients if a settlement cannot be achieved
He also has particular experience and interest in defamation and reputation management matters in line with the profile of his clients.
Bryan previously worked at a City firm with a market leading reputation in dispute resolution and then in the London office of a leading US firm, where he gained substantial international arbitration and anti-corruption experience, before he joined Forsters in 2009. He contributes regular articles to the Solicitors Journal on contentious matters, and is also involved in the Inner Temple’s training programme for pupil barristers and new practitioners.
He is ranked in the 2023 edition of The Legal 500 as a ‘Rising Star’.
Memberships
The Law Society
Lawyer Rankings
London > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
(Leading associates)Forsters LLP‘s dispute resolution practice routinely handles major commercial disputes, including high-value, international, multi-party actions; and is praised for ‘combining the intellectual heft of a magic or silver circle firm with the savvy and personal touch of an elite Mayfair firm’. The ‘tight-knit and determined team’ is led by Benedict Walton, whose practice encompasses cases concerning breaches of contractual terms, breaches of directors’ duties, shareholder disputes, negligence, fraud, investment disputes, and group actions; he and fellow partner Caroline Harbord are described as ‘hard-working, robust, committed and creative’. Andrew Head has a track record of work on international disputes, finance cases, class action claims and professional negligence; while Bryan Shacklady is an experienced counsel.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading associates London > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Commercial litigation: mid-market London > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Employment > Senior executives
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Residential property
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Family
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Social housing: local authorities and registered providers
- Real estate > Property finance
- Real estate > Commercial property: development