Wilberforce Chambers

Wilberforce Chambers

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Tim Penny KC

Tim Penny KC

Wilberforce Chambers, London

Position

Tim has a strong commercial and chancery litigation practice, specialising in the areas of commercial fraud, shareholders and partnership disputes, financial services related claims and breach of confidence, ‘soft’ intellectual property and sports disciplinary disputes.

Tim has a particular expertise in worldwide freezing orders and search orders, and much of his work involves cross-border and conflicts of laws issues. He has been involved in cases dealing with the admissibility of evidence. Tim has also been involved in the leading recent cases on collective investment schemes. He is regularly instructed in high value litigation and has conducted numerous successful High Court trials. He is well used to both leading a team of counsel and solicitors as well as working within a large team, often including solicitors within this jurisdiction and lawyers in other ‘offshore’ jurisdictions.

Career

Call: 1988, KC: 2016.

Memberships

Member of the LCIA.

Mentions

London Bar

Banking and finance (including consumer credit)

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Tim Penny KC – Wilberforce Chambers ‘Tim is an outstanding advocate, particularly adept at dealing with enormous volumes of documentary material which can be a hallmark of complex fraud trials. He has an understated but highly persuasive style of advocacy which is extremely effective when serious accusations are being made. He is incredibly hardworking and has complete mastery of all the details.’
London Bar

Commercial litigation

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Tim Penny KC –Wilberforce Chambers ‘Tim is just great - he has an excellent strategic view of a case and can quickly unpick the weaknesses in both sides’ cases. He is very clever and highly collaborative.'
London Bar

Fraud: civil

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Tim Penny KC –Wilberforce Chambers 'A very pragmatic and concise silk. He understands exactly how to advance arguments for maximum impact with the court, even when arguing challenging points.'

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