John Virgo

Banking and finance; professional negligence.

John is a specialist commercial barrister, with a strong practice emphasis on high-value financial product mis-selling litigation. He has appeared in all the leading mis-selling cases, including: lead counsel appointment in a group pension mis-selling action (Cocking v Prudential); acting in a 400 strong group action in the Commercial Court on behalf of Equitable Life’s trapped annuitants (Abeles and Others v Equitable Life Assurance Society); acting for Zurich Life to defend claims for product mis-selling arising out of the collapse of the Bahamian Imperial Consolidated Fund (Seymour v Caroline Ockwell & Co; Zurich IFA Ltd); acting for investors into the AIG Enhanced Variable Rate Fund who suffered substantial losses following its collapse (Rubenstein v HSBC Bank); acting for a number of high-net-worth individuals and businesses in relation to the mis-selling of interest rate hedging products (Rowley and Green v Royal Bank of Scotland). He is instructed nationwide in complex and substantial disputes where his advocacy and forensic skills are highly valued.

MA (Oxon) Worcester College, Oxford Graduated in Jurisprudence