Year of Call: 2004
Matthew has a broad commercial chancery practice, with a particular emphasis on civil fraud, company and partnership, insolvency, and trust litigation. Matthew has also appeared in a number of judicial review claims and other matters raising issues of public and administrative law.
Matthew has been instructed as sole counsel in proceedings before the High Court, the Court of Appeal, the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands and the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal. He is also regularly instructed as junior counsel in large-scale commercial and chancery matters both onshore and offshore. These include cases in the Courts of the DIFC and the BVI. In addition, Matthew has significant experience of assisting advocates in appearances before the Royal Courts of Jersey and Guernsey.
Although always ready and willing to advance a client’s case vigorously and fearlessly, Matthew equally relishes the challenge of helping conflicting parties to achieve a consensual and commercial resolution of their differences, and is a great believer in mediation.
Matthew is recommended by Legal 500 as a leading individual in civil fraud, commercial litigation, company and partnership, and offshore. He is ranked in Chambers & Partners for civil fraud, commercial dispute resolution, commercial chancery, company and offshore, and in Chambers & Partners Global for commercial, commercial chancery and offshore.
Matthew is the author of widely read Practical Law Company practice notes on minority shareholder remedies and various aspects of claims against trustees. In March 2018 he was invited to join the Practical Law Company’s Private Client Consultation Board. He is also the editor of chapters of Butterworths Corporate Law Service and Tolleys Company Law Service on directors’ liabilities in insolvency and disqualification. In addition, Matthew contributes chapters on liquidation, investigations and striking off, unfair prejudice, misfeasance and disqualification to The Law of Limited Liability Partnerships (Whittaker and Machell, 5th ed. (2021)). A list of articles written by Matthew may be found in the Publications section.
St John’s College, Oxford
Jurisprudence (MA, Oxon) - Proxime Accessit to the Wronker Prize awarded for the second highest First Class mark in the year
Bachelor of Civil Law - Awarded the Sir Roy Goode prize for the highest Distinction obtained in the year at St John’s College, Oxford
Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales
Qualified as a solicitor after working for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in corporate finance, M&A and commercial litigation in London, Cologne and Frankfurt
Cayman Islands Attorney
Admitted to the Bar of the Cayman Islands whilst working for Quin and Hampson (now Mourant du Feu & Jeune Cayman) from October 2005 to April 2006. Subsequently called ad hoc in various matters.
Formerly Junior Counsel to the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform for Directors Disqualification Proceedings
Nominated as Counsel for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs on a number of matters before the High Court and the Tax Commissioners.
Chancery Bar Association
Commercial Bar Association
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Comments; "High Court rules on duties of 'shadow directors" (with Lance Ashworth QC) - Estates Gazette, 16 April 2018