Max Marenbon


Year of Call: 2020 (Solicitor 2018)

Portrait of Max Marenbon

Practice Overview

Max is a commercial chancery junior with a particular focus on civil fraud, company and insolvency disputes. He appears in some of today’s most high-profile commercial litigation and in precedent-setting commercial and chancery cases:

  • Ras Al-Khaimah Investment Authority v Azima and others, part of a long-running litigation concerning allegations of fraud, perjury and computer hacking. Listed for a ten-week trial in 2024 before Mr Justice Michael Green.  Acting for the Fourth Additional Defendant, led by Antony White KC and Ben Silverstone.
     
  • Re Klimvest plc [2023] 1 BCLC 388, on whether a listed plc can have a  purpose or ‘substratum’, failure of which is a ground for winding-up, distinct from its constitutional ‘objects’, and whether a listed plc can be a quasi-partnership. Represented the successful petitioner, led by Daniel Lightman KC.
     
  • Revenue and Customs Commissioners v IGE USA Investments Limited, a $1 billion fraud claim by HMRC against US multinational conglomerate General Electric and one of ITR EMEA’s “Impact Cases of 2021”, led by Philip Jones KC and Gareth Tilley.
     
  • Kennedy v The Official Receiver [2022] BPIR 1536, on whether the Court should have regard to the facts of similar cases when determining the tariff of a Bankruptcy Restrictions Order.  Sole counsel for the successful appellant.

Before transferring to the Bar, Max qualified as a solicitor at a leading private client litigation firm. In 2018-19, he was Judicial Assistant to Lord Wilson at the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. He was previously a Senior Researcher on the Commercial and Common Law Team at the Law Commission of England and Wales, having read Classics at Oxford, converted to law, and then gained an LLM in Commercial Law from Cambridge, specialising in corporate governance and corporate finance law.

Max completed pupillage in September 2020. His supervisors were Matthew Morrison, Dan McCourt Fritz, Gareth Tilley, and Jonathan Fowles. He is regularly instructed to appear as sole counsel in the High Court and County Courts and has assisted as junior counsel with cases in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. 

News & Events

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    The Courts increasingly read implicit protections for bankrupt individuals into statutory powers, say Max Marenbon and Anneliese Mondschein in a recent article for the New Law Journal

    In modern English bankruptcy law, the courts restrict their broad statutory powers by finding implicit procedural protections for bankrupt individuals,... Read More

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    King’s College London Bar and Mooting Society Commercial Law Moot

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  • Events

    Serle Court 6th International Trusts & Commercial Litigation Conference 2023

    Location: New York City
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Education & Qualifications

LLM (First), University of Cambridge 

GDL, City University

BA Classics, University of Oxford

Memberships

Commercial Bar Association

Chancery Bar Association

Young Fraud Lawyers’ Association

Awards

Postgraduate Law Prize, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Duns Scotus Medieval Philosophy Prize, University of Oxford

Academic Scholarship, St Hugh’s College, Oxford

CPE Award, Gray’s Inn

News & Events

  • News

    The Courts increasingly read implicit protections for bankrupt individuals into statutory powers, say Max Marenbon and Anneliese Mondschein in a recent article for the New Law Journal

    In modern English bankruptcy law, the courts restrict their broad statutory powers by finding implicit procedural protections for bankrupt individuals,... Read More

    News

    King’s College London Bar and Mooting Society Commercial Law Moot

    Serle Court was delighted to take part in King's College London Bar and Mooting Society Commercial Law Moot... Read More

  • Events

    Serle Court 6th International Trusts & Commercial Litigation Conference 2023

    Location: New York City Read More

    Events Hub

    6th International Trusts & Commercial Litigation Conference 2023

    Location: Read More