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Gilead Cooper KC

Gilead Cooper KC

Position

Gilead specialises in complex, high-value disputes, often involving allegations of fraud, breaches of trust and fiduciary duties, and professional negligence. He also has a notable specialism in matters involving art and antiquities.

Gilead’s practice has a strong international element. He has appeared in the courts of Hong Kong, the BVI, Bermuda, Cayman and Nevis, and has been involved in litigation in Jersey, Guernsey and Gibraltar.

Career

Call: 1983, KC: 2006.

Memberships

Chancery Bar Association; Professional Negligence Bar Association; PAIAM (Professional Advisers to the International Art Market); ACTAPS; LCIA.

Education

BA in English, Christ Church, Oxford; Dip. Law, The City University.

Mentions

London Bar

Art and cultural property

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Gilead Cooper KC – Wilberforce Chambers ‘Gilead is incredibly clever, sharp and lucid. He can explain very complicated matters with an unrivalled economy and clarity.’
London Bar

Private wealth and probate

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Gilead Cooper KC – Wilberforce Chambers ‘Gilead is brilliant. He has an incredibly quick mind, great intellectual powers and a wonderful creative and strategic thinking capacity.’
The English Bar Offshore

Trusts and private wealth

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Gilead Cooper KC – Wilberforce Chambers ‘Simply put, Gilead is brilliant, as he has an incredibly quick mind, great intellectual powers and at the same time a wonderful capacity for creative, strategic thinking. He writes beautifully, judges clearly respect him, and he is an excellent courtroom advocate.’