Fountain Court Chambers

Philip Ahlquist specialises in commercial litigation and arbitration, with particular expertise in banking and financial services, civil fraud, energy disputes and the conflict of laws. Philip also specialises in professional regulation. Leading cases in which Philip has been involved include the RBS Rights Issue Litigation and disciplinary proceedings against Leigh Day arising out of the Al-Sweady Inquiry. He is regularly instructed in cases where his professional regulation and commercial practices overlap. Philip was named as one of twelve ‘Stars at the Bar’ by Legal Week in 2017 and The Lawyer’s Barrister of the Week in August 2021.

Philip’s most recent cases include Harcus Sinclair v Your Lawyers [2021] UKSC 32, concerning issues of restraint of trade and enforcing solicitors’ undertakings in the context of conduct of the VW Emissions group litigation. He is also instructed in breach of fiduciary duty proceedings in Global Energy Horizons Corp v Gray, where a six-day Court of Appeal hearing took place in June 2020, and Philip made oral submissions on several of the grounds of appeal. Philip’s commercial practice includes arbitration, and he has experience of both institutional and ad-hoc procedures, and arbitration claims in the Commercial Court.

Called 2012, Inner Temple

Magdalen College, University of Oxford - BA (Jurisprudence) (First Class Honours), BCL (Distinction).