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Edward Cumming KC

Edward Cumming KC

Position

Edward is a barrister specialising in most areas of chancery and commercial litigation. He particularly relishes advocacy, appearing frequently before a range of courts and tribunals, and has extensive experience of international and multi-jurisdictional disputes. This particular international emphasis was further enhanced when he was retained for a substantial period to advise a leading offshore firm on a number of business and trust matters involving Guernsey and the BVI. Edward’s breadth of expertise is recognised by the leading directories. He is not only recommended in the chancery sphere for traditional chancery litigation, private client disputes (trust and probate), company disputes and insolvency disputes, but also for commercial dispute resolution, banking and finance, and aviation.

Career

Call: 2006 | Silk: 2018

Edward read Law at Downing College, Cambridge where he was President of the Cambridge Union.  After leaving Cambridge he was a Thouron Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, studying at both the Law School and Wharton Business School.  He then became director of a group of engineering and property management companies, acquiring a practical understanding of the commercial realities of business and, in particular, company law, before completing pupillage at XXIV Old Buildings.

Languages

French, basic German.

Memberships

Chancery Bar Association Commercial Bar Association Institute of Art & Law Guernsey International Lawyers Association Bar Pro Bono Unit

Education

MA (Cantab) LLM (UPenn) Thouron Fellowship to the University of Pennsylvania Queen Mother’s Scholar and Harmsworth Exhibitioner of Middle Temple

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