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Chancery - Northern (Bar)

2
Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Exchange Chambers is a set that has expertise in an array of chancery matters. Members of the set represent clients in commercial cases, including banking, company, insolvency and shareholder disputes, as well as in traditional chancery litigation concerning trusts, wills and probate. A source praises the set, noting that "all their barristers have fantastic technical ability and great advocacy combined with commercial awareness and proportionality." Recent standout work includes successfully resisting a claim worth over £1 million concerning an alleged breach of a shareholders’ agreement.

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Notable Practitioners

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Andrew Vinson
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Andrew Vinson
2
Band 2

Andrew Vinson frequently represents corporations, private individuals and organisations in chancery and commercial matters. He deals with professional negligence, property disputes and insolvency law cases.

Andrew has impressive technical ability and is a great advocate, and he combines this with commercial awareness and client care skills.

Andrew Vinson's ability to analyse the most complex detail in an efficient way while delivering commercial services is second to none.

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Eleanor d'Arcy
2
Band 2

Eleanor d'Arcy has a notable reputation for handling a broad range of commercial chancery matters. She is instructed in relation to property, corporate restructuring and insolvency disputes.

She is my go-to person in the North West. Eleanor is excellent with clients and excellent in court.

Giles Maynard-Connor
2
Giles Maynard-Connor
2
Band 2

Giles Maynard-Connor KC is a commercial specialist instructed regularly in high-profile complex litigation cases. He is highly adept in insolvency, fraud and professional negligence matters.

Giles is awesome. He gives fabulous advice and is user-friendly. He's no-nonsense, bullish and really good. He's a thoroughly nice bloke as well.

Andrew Williams
3
Andrew Williams
3
Band 3

Andrew Williams has significant experience in the chancery sphere. He has particular expertise in property-related matters, regularly advising on land transfers, contract construction and ownership disputes, among many other issues.

Andrew is very good with his written advocacy. You can rely on his written advice. His pleadings are faultless and his oral advocacy is very good. He meticulously prepares.

John Waiting
3
John Waiting
3
Band 3

John Waiting is a strong chancery practitioner with wide-ranging knowledge of contentious probate matters as well as company and partnership disputes. He is also very well versed on, and regularly acts in, complex property cases.

John Waiting is excellent. He provided sound commercial advice to a client in a difficult situation, managing all expectations.

John is really down to earth and a quick thinker. I've found him really easy to deal with. He's responsive, easy to deal with and gets it. He has that kind of commercial nous that isn't taught.

John is so easy to work with. He's very responsive, unfailingly helpful and has a really good manner with lay clients. He can take them through a frightening maze of legalese and make it make sense.

John Waiting is a go-to barrister for us. We instruct him on a wide range of contentious probate matters. He is straight-talking, and his advocacy is brilliant.

Ranked Barristers at
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Silks (KC)

Northern (Bar)

Chancery

Giles Maynard-Connor KC
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Giles Maynard-Connor KC
2
Band 2

Juniors

Northern (Bar)

Chancery

Andrew Vinson
2
Andrew Vinson
2
Band 2
2
Eleanor d'Arcy
2
Band 2
Andrew Williams
3
Andrew Williams
3
Band 3
John Waiting
3
John Waiting
3
Band 3