Civil Fraud and Asset Tracing
Seven Chambers has extensive expertise in fraud litigation, asset preservation, and recovery, including complex commercial fraud cases both onshore and offshore. Our members include leading practitioners in civil fraud, with experience in landmark cases that have significantly shaped the law.
We act across the full spectrum of civil fraud claims, including:
- Misrepresentation
- Breach of duty
- Conspiracy
- Accessory liability
Our work includes:
- Freezing, search, and disclosure orders (against primary and third parties)
- Receivership orders (pre- and post-judgment)
- Committal proceedings for contempt
- Jurisdictional challenges
- Advisory and interim applications
- Trial representation
- Enforcement, including insolvency proceedings
Our related strengths in company law, insolvency, banking, property, and trusts ensure comprehensive strategic advice.
Insolvency and Restructuring
We provide expert advice and representation across the full spectrum of insolvency matters, including:
- Strategic pre-insolvency solutions
- Individual, partnership, and corporate voluntary arrangements
- Moratoria, administration, receivership, and restructuring
We collaborate across jurisdictions for cross-border solutions. Notably, our team contributed to the revision of *Atkins’ Corporate Insolvency*, reflecting our depth of expertise.
Banking and Finance
Our barristers are recognised leaders in banking and finance law, covering:
- Breach of mandate and duty of care claims
- Mis-selling, poor investment advice, and LIBOR manipulation
- Professional negligence (valuers, lawyers, financial advisors)
- Consumer Credit Act issues
- FCA Handbook and Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 compliance
- Capital adequacy, prudential regulation
- Investment banking and syndicated lending disputes
- Enforcement of securities and guarantees
- Structured finance and securitisation disputes
- Negotiable instruments and payment disputes (EFT, phishing fraud)
- Islamic finance matters
We offer robust representation in both domestic and international matters.
Commercial Litigation
Seven Chambers is a leading set for complex, high-value commercial disputes, often with international elements.
Our experience includes:
- Breach of international supply contracts
- Economic torts
- Warranty and indemnity claims
- Mis-selling and restitution
- Joint venture and shareholder disputes
- Commercial Agents Regulations claims
Sector experience spans: automotive, banking, chemicals, IT, oil and gas, telecoms, utilities, and pharmaceuticals.
Companies, Joint Ventures and Partnerships
We handle:
- Director and shareholder disputes
- Directors’ duties, misfeasance, unfair prejudice (s.994), derivative actions
- Joint venture disputes, governance conflicts, and winding-up petitions
- Corporate law matters under the Companies Act 2006
- Pre-emption rights, company restoration, capital reduction
We also advise on:
- LLP and partnership law
- Partner buyouts, dissolutions, self-dealing, and restrictive covenants
- High-profile domestic and international partnership/joint venture matters
Clients range from family firms to multinationals.
Executive Disputes
We offer strategic, commercially focused support for:
- Executive remuneration and bonus disputes
- Shareholder conflicts
- Directors’ duties breaches and disqualification matters
Our barristers often collaborate within wider legal teams in multi-faceted disputes.
Intellectual Property
We cover all areas of IP law:
- Patents, designs, trademarks, copyright
- Database rights, trade secrets, breach of confidence
- Data protection issues
Our team appears before all UK IP courts and tribunals, representing clients from inventors and SMEs to global corporations.
We regularly act in urgent matters, including:
- Interim injunctions
- Search and delivery-up orders
Several members hold postgraduate qualifications in scientific disciplines.
Cryptocurrency
Our barristers are at the forefront of cryptocurrency litigation.
We handle:
- Interim relief and disclosure orders
- Claims involving breach of contract, trust, and fiduciary duty
- Jurisdiction and conflict of law issues
- Enforcement strategies to recover obscured crypto-assets
- Legal status of cryptoassets and NFTs
We work alongside blockchain forensic experts and provide court-ready technical explanations.
Offshore
We have strong expertise in offshore litigation and arbitration.
Jurisdictions include:
- BVI, Cayman Islands, Bahamas, Bermuda
- Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Man, Gibraltar
- Singapore, Hong Kong, China, and the Middle East
Our work spans:
- Company and insolvency disputes
- Insurance and reinsurance
- Trustee liability and professional negligence
- Fund litigation, asset recovery, enforcement, judicial reviews
We are experienced in urgent cross-border relief, such as:
- Freezing and anti-suit injunctions
- Provisional liquidators and receivers
- Disclosure orders across jurisdictions
Seven Chambers delivers a full-service, commercially focused approach for offshore clients.