Members of Serle Court feature in Chambers & Partners Global Insolvency Guide 2019

Lance Ashworth QC, Matthew Morrison, Sophia Hurst and Eleni Dinenis featured in the recently launched Chambers and Partners Global Practice Guide dedicated to Insolvency.

Serle Court is regarded as one of the leading sets for restructuring and insolvency work. We have been involved in most of the large insolvencies since the advent of the Insolvency Act 1986, including Lehman, BCCI and BHS, advising on and acting in both non-contentious and contentious aspects of insolvency work from the inception of the insolvency to its end. There is considerable experience in Chambers in dealing with the cross-border insolvencies, many members having been involved in insolvencies in the Caribbean, the British Overseas Territories, the crown dependencies and those Asian countries which have borrowed heavily from English law.

13 silks, including Philip Jones QC and Daniel Lightman QC have substantial insolvency practices, supported by many junior members of chambers, including Zahler Bryan, who has contributed substantially to this chapter.

The guide aims to create a new network of Insolvency experts through Chambers and Partners.

Serle Court also won Set of the Year at the Legal 500 Awards 2020.

Our chapter can be found here

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Lance Ashworth KC

Call: 1987
Silk: 2006

Matthew Morrison KC has a broad commercial chancery practice, with particular expertise in civil fraud, company and partnership disputes, and insolvency litigation.

Described by Chambers UK 2027 as an “outstanding barrister” who is “technically brilliant, fantastic with clients and someone whose cross-examination is exceptional”, Matthew regularly appears in the High Court and Court of Appeal and has acted in proceedings before the Grand Court and Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI), the Supreme Court of Gibraltar, the Isle of Man High Court of Justice and the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts. He also has significant experience assisting advocates before the Royal Courts of Jersey and Guernsey. He is generally admitted to the BVI Bar and is currently admitted ad hoc on a number of matters in the Cayman Islands.

Matthew is an established legal author. He has written widely read PLC practice notes on minority shareholder remedies and edits chapters on directors’ duties and disqualification, and insolvency, in Gore-Browne, Butterworths Corporate Law Service, Tolley’s Company Law Service and Tolley’s Company Law Handbook; and on unfair prejudice, misfeasance and disqualification in the Law of Limited Liability Partnerships (Whittaker and Machell (6th ed.), 2026).