London Bar
Banking and finance (including consumer credit)
LEADING JUNIORS3Nicola Allsop –Quadrant Chambers ‘A joy to work with and an extremely adept advocate.'
Quadrant Chambers
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Nicola Allsop
Quadrant Chambers, London
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Position
Nicola has a modern commercial chancery practice encompassing company litigation (particularly shareholder disputes), insolvency and civil fraud. She appeared as a junior in the ten week fraud trial in Sita v Serruys and was called to the Bar of the BVI in 2012 where she successfully represented the majority shareholders of the only oil-producing company in Belize (SM Life Ventures LLC v BNE and others). Nicola is regularly retained by insolvency practitioners with a view to recovering assets for the benefit of insolvent estates and appeared for the appellants in Helman v John Lyon Free Grammar School [2014] 1 WLR 2451], a case concerning the impact of a bankruptcy order on the right to serve a notice to enfranchise. Her cases frequently involve applications for freezing injunctions and similar interim remedies
Career
Called 2002 Lincoln’s Inn; called British Virgin Islands 2012
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association; COMBAR
Education
Bristol University (2001 LLB first class hons)
Mentions
London Bar
Commercial litigation
LEADING JUNIORS4Nicola Allsop –Quadrant Chambers ‘Superb communication skills, very clear advice, and a star of the future. A silk in all but name, she is exceptionally bright, engaged and delivers great written and oral advocacy.’