Business & commercial
Business and commercial barristers, instructed directly.
From company and shareholder disputes to tax, intellectual property and arbitration, a barrister can advise your business and represent it.
Businesses face legal issues that are often complex and commercially sensitive, from a shareholder fallout or a contractual dispute to a tax position, an intellectual property right or a regulatory question. A barrister gives you specialist, commercial advice and can represent the business in court or arbitration.
Through Direct Access a company can instruct a barrister directly, without going through a solicitor first, which is efficient for advice, drafting and discrete disputes. Barristers are regulated by the Bar Standards Board.
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Through Direct Access you can instruct a barrister directly, without going through a solicitor first. Barristers are regulated by the Bar Standards Board (BSB).
Areas within Business & commercial
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Company and commercial
For company and commercial disputes, a barrister can advise on the law and the commercial reality and represent the business.
→Shareholder disputes
When shareholders fall out, a barrister can advise on your rights and remedies and represent you, including in unfair prejudice claims.
→Financial services
For financial services regulation and disputes, a barrister can advise firms and individuals and represent them.
→Tax
For tax disputes and advice, a barrister can advise individuals and businesses and represent them against HMRC.
→Intellectual property
To protect and enforce your ideas and brands, a barrister can advise on intellectual property and represent you against infringement.
→Copyright & media
For copyright, content and media disputes, a barrister can advise creators and businesses and represent them.
→Privacy & GDPR
For data protection and GDPR, a barrister can advise businesses and individuals and represent them on breaches and claims.
→Immigration (business)
For sponsoring and employing overseas workers, a barrister can advise businesses on immigration compliance and represent them.
→Sports
For athletes, clubs and governing bodies, a barrister can advise on sports disputes and represent them at hearings and tribunals.
→Licensing
For premises, alcohol and other licences, a barrister can advise on applications and reviews and represent you at the licensing committee.
→Arbitration
For disputes resolved by arbitration rather than the courts, a barrister can act as your advocate or as arbitrator.
→International arbitration
For cross-border commercial disputes, a barrister can act as advocate or arbitrator in international arbitration.
→Adjudication
For fast, interim-binding decisions on construction disputes, a barrister can prepare and argue an adjudication and enforce the result.
Alexander Bunzl
Alexander Bunzl is a commercial, property and family barrister who appears regularly in the County Court, the Senior Courts and the Family Court. He...
Amy Sloan-Thomas
Amy's commercial chancery practice has involved her in many aspects of company law, including: - • Advising on, drafting, and reviewing business...
Andrew Locke
Andrew Locke is a barrister at Nexus Chambers with a mixed practice across landlord and tenant, commercial, regulatory and licensing, and criminal...
Andrew Marsden
Andrew Marsden is a specialist in shareholder, director, partnership and commercial-agent disputes, ranked in Band 1 of Chambers UK and the Legal 500....
Aris Nicolson
Aris is a barrister practising in tax, asset-protection trusts, company law, Children Act matters, road traffic offences and serious crime. Called in...
Arshad Ghaffar
Arshad Ghaffar is a commercial dispute resolution barrister with over 20 years' experience, specialising in international and commercial arbitration,...
Aryan Stedman
Aryan Stedman is a highly experienced barrister with over 25 years of court room experience in Immigration and Family Law. He is a member of Imperium...
Barnaby Hope
Barnaby Hope is a barrister specialising in legal costs, professional negligence and commercial disputes. Called in 2011 after four years as an...
Charles Mannan
Mr Mannan has a thriving practice, being instructed by solicitors and directly by members of the public under direct access in employment law. His...
Chris Pearson
Chris Pearson is a specialist in intellectual property, media and entertainment law. Commercially-minded and user-friendly, Chris advises and...
Christopher Coyle
Christopher Coyle's specialisms lie primarily in the field of public and administrative law, although his practice also encompasses commercial and...
David Fearon
David specialises in construction, engineering and process engineering work, dealing with contentious and non-contentious matters and in particular...
David Hirst
David specialises in defamation, privacy and confidence, data protection, IP, harassment and other media and entertainment related work and is...
Dirk van Heck
Dirk van Heck is a barrister specialising in privacy, data protection and commercial litigation, authorised to conduct litigation since 2014. He has...
Dr Alexander Khan
Alex is a highly experienced and respected barrister with over 25 years of practice, specialising in financial applications arising from divorce, both...
Dr Mirza Ahmad Lld (Hon)
Mirza is commercially minded and has a strong customer focused approach that endeavours to achieve the best results for the client, in a...
Duncan Kynoch
Duncan is a commercial chancery practitioner. His work ranges across the full spectrum of property and company/commercial and disputes including;...
Dwain Coward
Dwain is a passionate and dedicated advocate always willing to apply his experience of advocacy and knowledge of the law to get the best possible...
Elissa DaCosta-Waldman
Elissa DaCosta-Waldman is a family finance barrister, mediator, collaborative lawyer and Family Law Arbitrator. Called in 1990, she specialises in...
Evin Atas
Evin Atas is an immigration and civil law barrister with particular expertise in unlawful detention, EEA, asylum and nationality law, handling both...
Farhan Asghar
Farhan Asghar is a barrister specialising in legal costs alongside a wide property, wills, probate and trusts practice, often involving foreign...
Forz Khan
Forz Khan is an immigration barrister with over 30 years' experience across the full range of visa, appeal, deportation and asylum matters. Called in...
Gary Pons
Gary Pons is a barrister specialising in licensing and criminal law, ranked by Chambers and Partners as a leader in crime at the London Bar. He...
Gary Summers
Gary Summers is a barrister with over 30 years' experience specialising in private prosecutions, commercial disputes, fraud, insolvency and...
Hermione Williams
Hermione's Company law practice includes shareholder disputes, derivative actions, unfair prejudice petitions, claims against directors for breach of...
Horaine Henry
Horaine has a broad practice that intersects across Civil and Public and Regulatory law. Horaine regularly appears in the County Court, before...
Hugh O'Donoghue
Hugh is an expert in the laws of Ireland and is fully qualified in Ireland. Hugh was Chair of the EU and International Affairs of the Law Society in...
Huw Davies
Huw Davies is a barrister with over 25 years' experience in employment, commercial, construction and contractual disputes, with a strong commercial...
Huw Shepheard
About me Huw Shepheard undertakes commercial and contractual disputes and public law litigation, advisory work and drafting over a range of practice...
Ian Wright
Ian Wright is an employment barrister acting for employees and workers, with particular emphasis on unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing,...
Jala Patang
Jala is a leading barrister in family law and her busy practice includes a wide variety of cases, including allegations of domestic violence, coercion...
Jeff Hardman
Jeff Hardman is a seasoned trial advocate and litigator. He has been a barrister for more than 10 years and is recommended by the legal directories as...
Jerome Wilcox
Jerome's practice centres around all forms of dispute arising out of general contract with a particular emphasis on building and property related...
John Hudson
" Thank you, John, not just because you got me the result I wanted, but for how you did it. \*Clear advice, fairly priced, delivered frankly and with...
John Sheng
John joined Chambers as a tenant after successfully completing his pupillage under the supervision of Nazar Mohammad. John read law at Cardiff...
Joseph Giret KC
Joseph Giret KC is an experienced and highly regarded silk recognised for his formidable advocacy, commercial acumen and pragmatic approach to dispute...
Julian Gun Cuninghame
Why choose me? I will always fight your corner in court and outside court. I have expertise in landlord and tenant cases acting both for landlords and...
Justin Perring
Justin was first recognised by the Legal 500 for his commercial practice in 2020. He has experience of substantial commercial disputes across a number...
Lesley Longhurst-Woods
I have a vast amount of experience of Immigration applications, appeals and Judicial Reviews and a high success rate. I also do administrative...
Marc Brittain
Marc Brittain has a longstanding practice in advising and representing clients in court in property disputes, notably in 'mortgage' issues, especially...
Mark Engelman
Mark Engelman has acted in numerous high profile cases including for the estate of Adrian Jacobs against JK Rowling and Bloomsbury Publishing Plc's...
Matondo Mukulu
Matondo is frequently instructed to advise on matters in the County Courts and the High Court and thus in representing you, you will can be assured...
Meg Cochrane
Meg is a commercial and civil disputes barrister acting for directors, shareholders and companies in commercial, contract and consumer disputes,...
Mehtab Malhotra
Mehtab was called to the Bar in October 1996,after qualifying from the Inns of Court, School of Law. After completing an LL.B and Masters in Law from...
Michael Clark
Michael's practice covers a broad range of litigation and arbitration involving complex commercial disputes. He accepts instructions in the following...
Muhammad Imtiaz
My professional experience lies in Commercial Chancery, Company, Construction, Civil Fraud, Deformation, International and offshore, Landlord and...
Nishan Paramjorthy
Nishan specialises in immigration and human rights law and appears regularly before the First Tier and Upper Tribunals, the Administrative Court and...
Nozir Uddin
Nozir enjoys an enviable practice covering the full spectrum of civil, commercial, property, matrimonial finance as well as immigration and human...
Patrick Boch
I have about a decade's worth of experience of tax, including of: - litigation and representation in the tax tribunals - inheritance tax and capital...
Paul Dipré
Family law, Children Paul represents clients at all stages of private law children disputes. He regularly represents parents and guardians in...
Paul Oakley
Philip Newman
I qualified as a barrister in 1977, and have practised both as a barrister and solicitor. That gives me a distinct advantage when advising my clients,...
Professor Mark Watson-Gandy
Effective and respected barrister with expertise in banking, insolvency, directors disqualification and civil fraud work, offering expert and...
Protap Nath
Children Act proceedings - Fact-finding hearings, Dispute Resolution Appointment (DRA) hearings, and final hearings - Matrimonial finance/financial...
Robert Rhodes KC
Why Choose me ? I am good with people, and able to empathise with them. - I am a senior KC with extensive judicial experience. - Mediation: - I am an...
Sandy Joseph-Urquhart
I offer expertise in commercial and general civil with a particular focus on commercial contracts, insolvency, bankruptcy, company disputes, property...
Sean Middleton
I am authorised to coduct litigation. This means a 1-stop-shop. Not all Public Access barristers can receive papers on your behalf or deal directly...
Seema Kansal
I do lots of contact work which usually involves allegations and cross allegations of domestic abuse, violence and rape. I have represented both those...
Shivani Jegarajah
Specific areas of work include: - Entry clearance applications in all categories of the Immigration Rules , including applications for Administrative...
Simon Cavender
In relation to construction matters, Simon has advised and acted for Employers, main Contractors, sub-Contractors and members of the professional...
Suffian Hussain
Suffian is a specialist property barrister, and his experience encompasses (but is not limited to): Real property disputes; Residential and commercial...
Suleman Shams
Suleman has a growing international practice. He has advised Dubai-based businesses and individuals in commercial disputes and intends to register as...
Timothy Becker
This includes all areas of corporate and individual insolvency related litigation both in UK and some cross boarder. Personal : Statutory demand...
Timothy Raggett KC
I practice in all areas of Regulatory Civil restraints Orders, Confiscation and criminal property, Debt Recovery (Freezing / injunction Orders), Civil...
Frequently asked questions
Can a company instruct a barrister directly?
Yes. Through Direct Access a business can instruct a barrister directly to advise, draft and represent it, without going through a solicitor first.
How are fees handled for business work?
Barristers set their own fees and frequently agree fixed or capped fees for commercial work. You will have a clear estimate before work starts, and there is no charge to enquire.
Can a barrister handle arbitration as well as court?
Yes. Many commercial barristers act in arbitration, including international arbitration, as well as in the courts.
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