London Bar
Commercial litigation
HALL OF FAME1Kenneth MacLean KC –One Essex Court ‘Superb judgement - incredibly hardworking in trial preparation and extremely strong during cross-examination.’
Kenneth MacLean
- Phone020 7583 2000
- Email[email protected]
Position
Barrister specialising in commercial, company and banking litigation including a wide variety of offshore litigation with advocacy experience at trial and appellate level in England and Wales and offshore jurisdictions. Recent cases include acting for the successful Third Defendant in Tatneft v Bogolyubov and others [2021] EWHC 411 Comm, successfully defending a case of alleged front-running and fraud against HSBC Bank in ECU Group plc v HSBC Bank plc [2021] EWHC 2875 (Comm) successfully challenging jurisdiction of the English courts on behalf of the Third, Eighth and Tenth Respondents in a case brought by the Kuwaiti Public Institution for Social Security against, amongst others, a number of Swiss financial institutions [2022] EWCA Civ 29, and representing the administrators of Phones 4u in a standalone damages claim against major mobile phone networks.
Education
Rugby; Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA Cantab 1980, MA Cantab 1984); Harvard Law School (LLM 1981).