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Richard has a mixed litigation/advisory business law practice, with a specialisation in a range of areas of commercial dispute resolution. The areas covered include shareholder disputes, fraud and asset tracing, conflicts of law and jurisdictional disputes, sovereign immunity issues and a broad range of contentious and non-contentious insolvency work including schemes of arrangement.

Much of Richard’s work is offshore based or has an offshore connection. He has been admitted and appeared in the courts of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man, and has had a close involvement in litigation in Jersey and Guernsey. Richard also has experience of conducting arbitrations and of court proceedings ancillary thereto. He is very used to operating as part of a multi-jurisdictional team with lawyers from a wide range of jurisdictions, whether in an advocacy, advisory or supervisory role.

Called 1977; QC 1998.

French, German.

Downing College, University of Cambridge (1976 MA); University of Brussels (1978 Postgraduate Licence Speciale en Droit European).