Date of birth:
1 April 1973
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 rizmokal@southsquare.com. Web
www.southsquare.com
Education:
PhD
(UCL), BCL (Oxon), LLB (UCL), BSc (Pb)
Called
to the Bar 1997 (Gray’s Inn)
Awards & scholarships:
Overseas Research Scholar – 1998–2001
UCL Laws Dean’s Scholar – 1998–2001
UCL Denys Holland Scholar – 1998
Oxford
Overseas Bursary – 1997
UCL Robert Fitzgerald Prize – 1996
UCL
J.A.C. Thomas
Bar Scholarship – 1996
UCL Chen-Tien His Prize – 1995
British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Scholar – 1993–1996
ICI (Pakistan)
Scholar – 1993 – 1996
Areas of practice:
Corporate and personal insolvency
Trusts and Property law
Academic affiliations:
Reader (formerly Lecturer) in Laws, UCL – 1996–
Research Associate, Centre for Business Research, University
of Cambridge –
2003–
Languages:
Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi (fluent)
Publications:
Books or Book Chapters:
- 'Corporate Insolvency Law –
Theory and Application’ (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2005).
- Rizwaan Jameel Mokal and Daniel Lightman, ‘Duties and Liabilities
of Administrators’, in Sir Gavin Lightman, Gabriel Moss QC, Ian Fletcher
and Richard Snowden QC (eds.), The Law
of Receivers and Administrators of Companies (London: Sweet
& Maxwell, 2007).
- Daniel Lightman and Rizwaan Jameel Mokal, ‘Duties and Liabilities
of Administrative Receivers and their Appointers’, in Sir Gavin Lightman,
Gabriel Moss QC, Ian Fletcher and Richard Snowden QC (eds.), The Law of Receivers and Administrators of
Companies (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2006).
- Robin Dicker
QC, Adam Goodison, and Rizwaan Jameel Mokal,
‘Voluntary Arrangements (Companies)’, in Peter Totty and Gabriel Moss
(eds.), Insolvency (London:
Sweet & Maxwell, 2005).
- ‘The Floating Charge – An Elegy’, in Sarah
Worthington (ed), Commercial Law and Commercial
Practice (Oxford:
Hart, 2003), 479-509.
Articles:
- ‘Contractarianism, Contractualism, and the Law of Corporate
Insolvency’ (forthcoming, June 2007).
- Look Chan Ho and Rizwaan Jameel Mokal, ‘Barber v CI:
Preference Equals Undervalue?” (2006) 22(5) Insolvency Law &
Practice 183-186.
- Michael Crystal QC and Rizwaan Jameel Mokal, ‘The Valuation of
Distressed Companies: A Conceptual Framework – Part II’ (2006) 3(3) International Corporate Rescue
123-131.
- Michael Crystal QC and Rizwaan Jameel Mokal, ‘The Valuation of
Distressed Companies: A Conceptual Framework – Part I’ (2006) 3(2) International Corporate Rescue
63-68.
- Stephen Atherton QC and
Rizwaan Jameel Mokal, ‘Charges over Chattels – Issues in the
Fixed/Floating Jurisprudence’ [2005] Company
Lawyer 10-18; cited by Lord Walker in Re Spectrum Plus Ltd; National Westminster Bank
plc v Spectrum Plus Ltd and others [2005] UKHL 41.
- Rizwaan Jameel Mokal and Look Chan Ho, ‘The
Pari Passu Principle
in English Ancillary Proceedings: Re Home Insurance Company’ (2005) 21(6) Insolvency Law & Practice 207-210.
- ‘Administrative Receivership and Administration – An Analysis”
[2004] Current Legal Problems
355-392.
- John Armour and Rizwaan Jameel Mokal, ‘Reforming the Governance of
Corporate Rescue: The Enterprise
Act 2002’ [2005] Lloyd’s Maritime and
Commercial Law Quarterly 28-64.
- ‘Liquidation Expenses and Floating Charges — The Separate Funds
Fallacy’ [2004] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
387-404; reprinted at (2005) 21(2) Insolvency
Law & Practice 46-55.
- ‘The Harm Done by Administrative Receivership’ (2004) 1(5) International Corporate Rescue
248-256.
- Rizwaan Jameel Mokal and John Armour, ‘The New UK Corporate Rescue
Procedure — The Administrator’s Duty to Act Rationally’ (2004) 1(3) International Corporate Rescue
136-142.
- ‘Interplay of Administration, Liquidation, and CVA – Part II’
(2004) 25(2) Company Lawyer 35-40.
- Look Chan Ho and Rizwaan Jameel Mokal, ‘Interplay of
Administration, Liquidation, and CVA – Part I’ (2004) 25(1) Company
Lawyer 3-8.
- ‘On Fairness and Efficiency’ [2003] Modern Law Review 452-467.
- ‘The Search for Someone to Save: A Defensive Case for the Priority
of Secured Credit’ [2002] Oxford
Journal of Legal Studies 687-728.
- Priority as Pathology: The Pari Passu Myth’ [2001] Cambridge Law Journal 581-621;
several of the arguments in this paper were approved and adopted by the
majority of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria in Ansett
Australia Holdings v International Air Transport Association [2006]
VSCA 242.
- Rizwaan Jameel Mokal and Look Chan Ho, ‘Characterisation,
Consideration, Evaluation: Transactions at an Undervalue After Phillips
v Brewin Dolphin’ [2001] Journal
of Corporate Law Studies 359-379.
- ‘The Authentic Consent Model: Contractarianism, Creditors’ Bargain,
and Corporate Liquidation’ [2001]
Legal Studies 400-443.
- Look Chan Ho and Rizwaan Jameel Mokal, ‘Blowing Hot and Cold: Phillips
v Brewin Dolphin’ (2001) 6 Journal
of International Banking and Financial Law 263-266.
- ‘An Agency Cost Analysis of the Wrongful Trading Provisions:
Redistribution, Perverse Incentives, and the Creditors’ Bargain’ [2000] Cambridge
Law Journal 335-369; excerpts in Grantham and Rickett, ‘Company and
Securities Law: Commentary and Materials’ (Wellington: Brookers,
2002), 584-7.
- 'Resolving the MS Fashions ‘Paradox’’ [1999] Company Financial and Insolvency Law Review
106-113.