Commercial: Insurance, sale of goods, financial contracts, agency, credit & security, banking and financial services, engineering, energy (oil, gas, renewables), telecommunications, economic torts, bailment and conversion. Commercial Chancery: insolvency and company, partnership, set-off, confidential information, directors and other fiduciaries. Fraud: simple deceit to international asset tracing, breach of trust and fiduciary duty, dishonest assistance, fraudulent trading and transactions defrauding creditors.
Professional Negligence: Solicitors, barristers, brokers, financial advisers, accountants, insolvency practitioners, surveyors and engineers – with particular expertise in associated limitation issues. Engineering: has advised and acted in a range of engineering disputes from giant water pumps in Wales to boric acid filtration plants in Turkey. Limitation: Advice, litigation and writing on the English Limitation Act and analogous foreign limitation laws. Privilege and disclosure/e-disclosure; Conflict of laws: Choice of law and jurisdiction disputes in a wide range of fields. Emergency interim relief: Employment: wrongful dismissal, covenants in restraint of trade, business secrets and confidentiality.
Arbitration: He has advised or acted in arbitrations (here and abroad) under various institutional rules including LCIA, ICC, SIAC, Swiss Rules as well as ad hoc.
He is ranked as a leading junior in commercial litigation in both Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500. He is ranked as a leading junior in commercial chancery in Chambers & Partners. He is ranked as a leading junior in commercial fraud in the Legal 500. He is ranked as a leading junior in professional negligence in the Legal 500.
St Albans School; St John’s College, Oxford (1990 BA Ancient & Modern History); Middlesex University (1992 CPE); Astbury Scholar of the Middle Temple.
London Bar
Shantanu Majumdar KC ���Radcliffe Chambers ‘Intellectually way ahead of the crowd and a superb written advocate. His court room style is equally impressive. An excellent trial lawyer and cunning cross-examiner. Clients love him.’