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Matthew has a broad commercial chancery practice, with a particular emphasis on civil fraud, company and partnership, insolvency, and trust litigation. Matthew has also appeared in a number of judicial review claims and other matters raising issues of public and administrative law.

Matthew has been instructed as sole counsel in proceedings before the High Court, the Court of Appeal, the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands and the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal. He is also regularly instructed as junior counsel in large-scale commercial and chancery matters both onshore and offshore. These include cases in the Courts of the DIFC and the BVI.  In addition, Matthew has significant experience of assisting advocates in appearances before the Royal Courts of Jersey and Guernsey.

Although always ready and willing to advance a client’s case vigorously and fearlessly, Matthew equally relishes the challenge of helping conflicting parties to achieve a consensual and commercial resolution of their differences, and is a great believer in mediation.

Matthew is recommended by Legal 500 as a leading individual in civil fraud, commercial litigation, company and partnership, and offshore. He is ranked in Chambers & Partners for civil fraud, commercial dispute resolution, commercial chancery, company and offshore, and in Chambers & Partners Global for commercial, commercial chancery and offshore.

Matthew is the author of widely read Practical Law Company practice notes on minority shareholder remedies and various aspects of claims against trustees. In March 2018 he was invited to join the Practical Law Company’s Private Client Consultation Board. He is also the editor of chapters of Butterworths Corporate Law Service and Tolleys Company Law Service on directors’ liabilities in insolvency and disqualification. In addition, Matthew contributes chapters on liquidation, investigations and striking off, unfair prejudice, misfeasance and disqualification to The Law of Limited Liability Partnerships (Whittaker and Machell, 5th ed. (2021)). A list of articles written by Matthew may be found in the Publications section.

St John’s College, Oxford (Jurisprudence (MA (Oxon.)), BCL); Attorney at Quin and Hampson (now Mourant Ozannes), Cayman (2005-06); formerly Junior Counsel to the SoS for BIS.

German.

Chancery Bar Association; Commercial Bar Association.

Weald School, Billingshurst; St John’s College, Oxford (Bachelor of Civil Law, with distinction; MA 1st class, jurisprudence, placed joint 2nd in year).

Choral singing and direction, squash, sailing and diving.