Year of Call: 2017
"Sparsh is a outstanding junior. Fearsomely clever and organised, his work is always of a very high standard and he appears destined for great things." "Sparsh is a bright and adept junior."
Sparsh is a chancery and commercial barrister with a particular focus on contentious trusts and estates matters, as well as company disputes.
In line with his core practice, Sparsh is ranked for both Offshore Private Client and Offshore Commercial Work, having regularly been instructed in matters in The Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar and Jersey. Sparsh is also called to the BVI Bar and is working on several matters, either as part of a counsel team or as sole counsel, in the BVI.
Sparsh is also regarded as a “rising star” and “up and coming” barrister for traditional chancery and private client work in England. The leading directories describe Sparsh as “intelligent, hard-working, an innovative thinker….personable and a good team player”.
Key highlights of Sparsh’s recent work include:
Sparsh was seconded to the dispute resolution team of a leading Gibraltar firm in 2019. While on secondment Sparsh worked on a number of contentious trusts and commercial disputes matters. Following his secondment, Sparsh has continued to work on a number of offshore matters, both as sole counsel and also as part of a larger counsel team. This has included three appeals before the Privy Council, Chu v Lau [2020] 1 WLR 4656 (a just and equitable winding up on the grounds of deadlock/breakdown in relations between shareholders), Perry v Lopag [2023] 1 WLR 3494 (the circumstances in which an appeal court should intervene with the trial judge’s findings of foreign law), and Dawson-Damer v Grampian Trust Company Ltd (a trustee’s duty of adequate deliberation).
LLB Law (First Class) – University College London
LLM Law – New York University School of Law
BPTC (Outstanding) – BPP University
The Chancery Bar Association
COMBAR
Advocate (formerly the Bar Pro Bono Unit)
The Society of Asian Lawyers
Hindi (Native)
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Lord Denning Scholarship – Lincoln’s Inn
Hardwicke Award – Lincoln’s Inn
Excellence Award – BPP University
Buchanan Prize – Lincoln’s Inn
Shelford Scholarship – Lincoln’s Inn
EFTA Court Scholarship – Lincoln’s Inn