Praised as ‘the pre-eminent set in Manchester for valuable company litigation’,
Kings Chambers is home to
Lesley Anderson KC, who has appeared several times before the Supreme Court, and
David Casement KC, who successfully represented the respondents in Brown v Graham, a shareholder dispute surrounding allegations of unfairly prejudicial conduct arising from the termination of a director.
Louis Doyle KC is a specialist personal and corporate insolvency silk, while
Mark Harper KC and
Andrew Grantham KC are both strong in shareholder disputes.
Martin Budworth and
Ben Harding are notable juniors in this area; Budworth acted for the plaintiff in Durose v Waterland & ors, a £25m unfair prejudice petition arising from allegations that Dutch private equity investors unlawfully flooded the board and subsequently diluted the shareholding.