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Nicola Allsop

Nicola Allsop

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

Banking and finance (including consumer credit)

Leading junior3
Nicola Allsop – Quadrant Chambers ‘Tenacious, knowledgeable and forensic in her ability to devour complex banking information and deliver digestible positive advice for clients.’
London Bar

Commercial litigation

Leading junior4
Nicola Allsop – Quadrant Chambers ‘Nicola is approachable and friendly yet fully on top of the details. She applies a client-friendly and strategic approach to her advice and is always responsive.'
London Bar

Insolvency

Leading junior4
Nicola Allsop – Quadrant Chambers ‘Nicola is absolutely fantastic. Her advocacy is succinct, clearly articulated and compelling.’