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James Bailey
Call: 1999
James’s practice covers a broad range of commercial and chancery work and his areas of specialism include personal and corporate insolvency, company law (in particular directors’ duties and s.994 petitions), commercial disputes and partnership matters. James has been called to the Cayman Islands Bar and has been involved in a number of contentious trust and company/commercial cases there. In particular he spent several months acting for Enron’s liquidators in both the Cayman Islands and the He has been involved in a commercial dispute relating to the design of warheads of Tomahawk missiles which has taken him to the James has been involved in a very significant offshore trusts dispute in the Although some of James’s work has international aspects to it, the majority of these cases are fought in the High Court in England where he appears regularly. In 2008 James appeared in the significant bankruptcy decision in Halabi and was also involved in the Metronet litigation. In 2009 he was involved in litigation pertaining to the provenance of a painting alleged to have been stolen in Austia in 1936, and a number of cases involving alleged frauds on major banks.  Areas of practice
Commercial Chancery
Company and Insolvency Trusts and Estates Offshore work & other areas Directories and Acknowledgments Leader at the Bar - Chancery: Commercial - Chambers UK 2011 Leader at the Bar - Restructuring/Insolvency - Chambers UK 2011 "regarded as a strong commercial litigator who enjoys the full support of the market" "great at seeing through problems very quickly" "Peers consider him a rising star, pointing to his capacity to handle intellectually demanding cases." "a very bright spark" Up and Coming - Chancery: Commercial - Chambers UK 2010 Leading Junior - Restructuring/Insolvency - Chambers UK 2010 Leading Junior - Insolvency - Legal 500, 2009 Edition Ten years' call or under ranking - Commercial Litigation - Legal 500, 2009 Edition "rising star" "applauded for being 'very bright and promising.'" Up and coming - Restructuring/Insolvency - Chambers UK 2009 Leading Junior - Insolvency - Legal 500, 2008 Edition "James Bailey is a barrister who is catching the eye. Increasingly experienced he has acted for the liquidators of Enron in the Cayman Islands and is identified by more mature rivals as 'someone who makes life tougher for you than you might have expected considering his relatively junior year of call'." Up and coming - Insolvency/Corporate Recovery - Chambers UK 2008 Leading Junior - Insolvency - Legal 500, 2007 Edition "incredibly ambitious, responsive and practical." |
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