St John's Buildings

Company and Commercial, Data and Information Law, Property and Private Client, Banking, Finance and Insolvency, ADR and Mediation

Sebastian is a specialist commercial and chancery barrister and a qualified mediator. He is well acquainted with acting for high-net worth clients, influencers and individuals from the worlds of entertainment, fashion and business and can be expected to deal with highly confidential matters with sensitivity and discretion.

Sebastian has a passion for private international law and is currently instructed on a number of matters which involve jurisdiction and choice of law issues.

Sebastian has also started to develop a practice in aviation and has experience dealing with carriage by air disputes involving EU regulations as well as compensation claims for delay, cancellation or denied boarding. He is happy to accept instructions in related areas.

Sebastian deals with a broad range of property work and is instructed in commercial landlord and tenant disputes, including breach of terms, forfeiture, lease renewals, disrepair and arrears of rent.

Sebastian’s experience extends to disputes under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996, boundary and party walls disputes, adverse possession, easements and nuisance.

Sebastian’s Banking practice includes a wide range of personal and corporate insolvency matters.

He regularly appears in the winding up list, bankruptcy and company restoration proceedings acting for both creditors and debtors.

He also appears in the applications list in Manchester and Leeds and is familiar with administration orders and extensions, as well as the appointment and removal of liquidators.

Sebastian also has experience in corporate insolvency applications under section (236) (delivery up of information/ private examination in court) as well as personal insolvency matters under sections 339 (transactions at an undervalue) and 423 (transactions defrauding creditors) of the Insolvency Act 1986.

Sebastian also has experience of data protection issues under the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Acts 1998 and 2018.

He has advised clients on claims arising from data breaches committed by both public and private bodies, which includes claims relating to breach of confidence and misuse of private information.

Sebastian was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 2015, and joined Chambers in 2019.

Northern Circuit Northern Chancery Bar Association Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association

BPTC, BPP Law School MSc, Oxford University LLB (Hons), Durham University