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James Pickering KC KC
Position
James specialises in all areas of commercial litigation with a particular emphasis on commercial fraud, insolvency, and professional negligence. Highlights include representing the liquidators in the well-known “Hyde Park Hotels” fraud, the administrator in the high profile A1 Grand Prix insolvency, the financiers behind a Hollywood movie, provisional liquidators in one of the first crypto-currency insolvencies, the creator of breakthrough gambling software in a multi-million pound commercial IT trial, several well-known football clubs, the shareholders in a leading celebrity chef-owned London restaurant, a lender in a professional liability claim arising out of Channel 4’s Brookside housing estate, and a Swiss banker trustee in a Liechtenstein trust fraud trial. As well as the above, James has appeared in numerous well known and reported cases and is highly regarded within the Chancery and Commercial Bar. James is a regular speaker at events both domestic and overseas. Recent highlights include speaking in New Delhi, Istanbul, Gibraltar and the Isle of Man. James also has a particular interest in CIS and middle eastern work. In February 2016 James was appointed as a Deputy Master of the High Court and in September 2018 he was appointed as a Deputy High Court Judge. In March 2019 he was elected as Head of Chambers and in March 2020 he was appointed silk.
Career
Joined Enterprise Chambers (1992)
Appointed Deputy Master of the High Court (2016)
Appointed Deputy High Court Judge (2018)
Elected Head of Chambers (2019)
Appointed King’s Counsel (2020)
Memberships
Member of the Chancery Bar Association
Member of INSOL
Member of Commercial Bar Association
Member of the Property Bar Association
Education
Harmsworth Law Scholarship (1990)
Inns of Court School of Law (Outstanding) (1991)
JJ Powell Prize (1991)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Insolvency
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3‘Efficient and friendly’ Enterprise Chambers have been involved in significant cross-border cases and high profile litigation, such as Octavian Security Ltd v Ghuman which saw James Pickering KC led a team in a contested freezing injunction and then various contested bankruptcy proceedings against the former directors. Stephen Davies KC has acted in cases relating to the interface of the law and practice of insolvency in the banking and finance space, while Kavan Gunaratna has expertise in disputes concerning insolvent tenant companies, including advising creditors on the insolvencies of Debenhams. Hugo Groves is noted for his work in litigating claims involving directors and third parties in and around a variety of insolvency scenarios.