Jeremy undertakes a wide range of commercial litigation and advisory work. He has extensive experience in a broad variety of banking and finance areas (including derivatives and securitisations), restructuring and insolvency and company law. He has appeared in many of the leading cases in those fields including Lomas v Firth Rixson, Standard Chartered Bank v Ceylon Petroleum Corporation and Re Stanford International Bank.
Jeremy regularly appears in the UK courts at all levels, appearing (for example) in the Supreme Court in Eurosail, the Court of Appeal in Graiseley Properties v Barclays Bank, the Financial List of the Chancery Division in Hayfin v. Windermere VII and the Commercial Court in Tchenguiz v. Grant Thornton. He has particular experience in capital market disputes.
Jeremy also has considerable experience of litigating and advising in offshore jurisdictions, particularly in Grand Cayman and the British Virgin Islands. For example, he recently appeared in the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal in Conway v. Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, a case arising out of the collapse of a fund. He has extensive experience of petitions under s 238 of the Companies Law, including leading for the dissenters at two trials in the Grand Court in 2018.
Appointed Queen’s Counsel 2013. Called to the Bars of the British Virgin Islands 2003, and the Cayman Islands 1998. Publications of note include ‘Cross-Border Insolvency Fourth Edition’ (Sheldon, Bloomsbury, 2015), ‘Gore-Browne on Companies’, ‘Professional Negligence and Liability’ (Simpson), ‘Rowlatt on Principal and Surety’ (Moss and Marks, Sweet and Maxwell, 2011).
Oxford University (BA, First Class); Yale University (MA).