Elspeth Talbot Rice KC
XXIV Old Buildings ‘A fearsome advocate, but excellent with clients. A go-to silk for all heavyweight litigation. Elspeth cuts through the weight of evidence to get to the core issues with apparent ease.’
XXIV Old Buildings covers a full spectrum of partnership disputes across a wide variety of industry sectors, from legal, to farming, film and finance. Members handle partnership and LLP cases both domestically and abroad, and for both commercial and family-owned structures. Elspeth Talbot Rice KC is a key silk from the set, while Hugh Miall covers all areas of partnership law, spanning traditional 1890 Act partnerships, LLPs and joint ventures. Helen Galley is noted for her advisory work in numerous partnership disputes, from small commercial partnerships to professional partnerships.
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Testimonials
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- 'An excellent chancery set.'
- 'XXIV Old Buildings have an extremely complementary blend of private wealth, offshore, corporate and commercial expertise which spans the private and corporate worlds. It is well suited to heavyweight litigation for clients who are ultra high net worth individuals and corporates owned by such individuals.'
Silks
Leading Silks
KCs at the very top of their field, with a long-established record of market-defining cases, and widespread endorsement from clients and peers. All silks appointed in the last two rounds are listed further below.
Juniors
Leading Juniors
Leading juniors are those with significant experience of key cases, strong market recognition from both peers and clients, and are seen as future candidates for silk.
Helen Galley
XXIV Old Buildings
Hugh Miall
XXIV Old Buildings ‘Hugh is an accessible team-player who provides essential leadership and tactical acumen in high stakes commercial or corporate disputes.'