David Allison
- Contact details:
- 3-4 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London WC1R 5HP.
- Telephone +44 (0)20 7696 9900. Fax +44 (0)20 7696 9911. LDE 338 (Chancery Lane).
- Email davidallison@southsquare.com
- Web www.southsquare.com
- Professional career:
- Called to the Bar in 1998
- Called to the Eastern Caribbean Bar
- Full registration under Part II of the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts’ Register of Legal Practitioners
- Education:
- Downing College, Cambridge. MA (Cantab), First Class
- Cambridge University George Long Scholarship
- Downing College Senior Harris Scholarship
- Middle Temple Queen Mother Scholarship
- Areas of practice:
- Corporate restructuring and insolvency; banking and financial services; general commercial and business litigation; company; civil fraud; professional negligence.
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- Recent cases include Lehman Brothers (including Perpetual Trustee Company Ltd v (1) Bank of New york (2) Lehman Brothers Special Financing Ltd [2010] Ch 347, and Re Lehman Brothers International (Europe) [2010] EWCA Civ 917 (client money)), Cattles, Nortel, Madoff, Stanford International Bank, European Directories, Eurosail, Woolworths, Entertainment UK, McCarthy & Stone, Landsbanki, General Motors, Metronet, Orion SIV, Golden Key SIV, Cheyne SIV, Northern Rock, TXU, Courts, Schefenacker, Swissair, IPOC, Parmalat and MG Rover.
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- Extensive overseas practice which includes BVI, Cayman and Dubai.
- Legal directories:
- Recommended by Chambers and Partners as a Leading Junior in five areas: (1) Restructuring/Insolvency; (2) Banking & Finance; (3) Commercial Dispute Resolution; (4) Company; (5) Chancery: Commercial.
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- Recommended by Legal 500 as a Leading Junior in four areas: (1) Insolvency; (2) Banking and Finance; (3) Commercial Litigation; and (4) Company.
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- Chambers and Partners Bar Awards 2010: Insolvency/Corporate Restructuring Junior of the Year.
