Chancery: Commercial

His cross-examination is astonishing. He makes the job look easy.

Alan Gourgey is an all-round marvel. Clients love him, as he delivers clear and robust advice, and judges and tribunals eat out of his hand.

Alan is just incredibly good at devising strategy, and also good at working with everyone to pull things together. He instils confidence in both solicitors and clients.

The speed at which he works is second to none.

Alan is very thorough and quick in his turnaround of work. He's also willing to argue difficult legal arguments for the benefit of the client.

John is very brave, happy to become part of the team and very good with clients. He's also not someone to not sit on the fence.

John is calm, relaxed and experienced. He knows the issues in the case straightaway.

John stands by his word and fights to the death. He is a robust and eloquent advocate.

Thomas is a great advocate and tactician. Overall, he is an outstanding barrister.

Thomas is an engaging and superb advocate – amongst the highest quality you can get at the Bar.

He is an excellent, extremely polished advocate who is really good at firefighting when difficult moments arise in a case.

Thomas is an astute barrister who makes himself available to solicitors and is charming with judges.

Tom is a very persuasive advocate who is pleasingly theatrical in court.

Clare knows the offshore market inside out and is a ferocious cross-examiner. She has a wonderful breadth of experience.

Clare is an amazing advocate; judges love her. I go to her when I want to instruct a silk that knows Cayman law backwards and is known to the judges.

Clare is very thorough, and clients really like her.

Clare is able to package up complex ideas and present them in a way that is easily understandable for both lawyers and lay clients.

Edward has lots of experience of a wide variety of cases. His written work is good, and he pays particular attention to detail. He will certainly go far.

Edward is great at navigating practical challenges and coming up with creative legal solutions that work for clients.

Edward gives really clear, concise advice, and is very open to discussing follow-up points and challenges.

Fenner is an impressive advocate. He is highly erudite but also brilliantly down to earth with clients.

Fenner has a particular instinct and the ability to guess how the wind will blow. He is immensely helpful to have on your team.

Fenner is highly intelligent and has a great way with clients. He gets in the trenches with the instructing solicitor and gives robust advice.

His advocacy is very compelling. I couldn't imagine another narrative once I'd heard Fenner because he was so convincing.

Fenner has this extraordinary ability to explain complex concepts in layman's terms.

Graeme is on top of it all. He produces clear skeletons and is a very good advocate in written work and on his feet. I would always recommend him for anything heavy and complicated.

Graeme is operating far beyond his years. He is a terrifying cross-examiner who is consistently phenomenal on his feet and very user-friendly.

Graeme is a very good advocate in court whose legal knowledge, strategy and written skeleton arguments are all to a high standard. He is also very responsive.

She is so smart, but also approachable and easy to work with. She is simply a delight.

Lexa is personable, tenacious and easy to get on with. She is effective and gives very good advice.

I've never met someone who is so completely tireless in trying to get a result for her client. Lexa is an absolutely ferocious advocate.

Lexa is a legend of the corporate and commercial Bar and a fearless advocate. She is the one you want on your side.

Lexa is such a specialist in insolvency. She has seen it all and always has the answer.

Terence is very robust, cool in cross-examination and someone who has the ear of the court.

Terence is an impressive presence in court.

Terence is a glorious man who loves speaking to juniors and assisting them.

Terence is a well-focused, organised barrister with an encyclopaedic mind.

Terence is a tour de force and a superb commander in the warfare of litigation.

Tim is forensically second-to-none in terms of his propensity for getting into detail on complex fraud cases. He is also such a nice guy and so user-friendly.

Tim is very tenacious and easy to deal with.

Tim is a very good advocate and a very considered thinker. He gets involved in cases and is a pleasure to work with.

Anna has incredibly good judgement and thinks things through to the end. A thoughtful barrister, she sees all the traps and is very good on strategy and detail.

Sometimes, junior counsel can be precious about getting dirty with the facts of the case but Anna dove straight in. She is really articulate and unbelievably kind to work with.

Anna is so user-friendly, so bright and so thorough. You can rely on her to get to the crux of the matter and do it quickly.

Anna is precise, conscientious and someone with a keen eye for detail and an ability to cut through complexities.

Emer doesn't flip flop; once she forms a view, it remains consistent throughout. She also has excellent client-handling skills, especially in time-pressured circumstances.

Emer argues extremely well under pressure. She is destined for great and wonderful things.

Emer has relentless energy and is never overwhelmed by there being a huge amount to work through. She's a good advocate who is straightforward and produces really clear, cogent advocacy.

James is really good at predicting what the court is going to do. The best thing about him is his hands-on practical ability and the fact that he knows how things are going to play out.

James is a very intelligent, strategic thinker who comes up with clever ideas nobody else has thought about, seemingly. He makes a difference.

Nikki will roll up his sleeves and get into the detail. He's also very good at managing clients.

Nikki is a determined-yet-elegant advocate who really provides a Rolls-Royce service.

Thomas is extremely bright.

Thomas is a very clever barrister, who has so much experience and is so relaxed with it. However much work he has on, he's calm and has an answer.

Tiffany is really good. She is nice, reassuring and someone who gives very clear advice.

Tiffany is a versatile, quality barrister who is utterly reliable, incredibly hard-working and never prone to hyperbole. You can rely on her to tell you that you can't just ignore issues.

Tim is pragmatic, all over the detail and someone who appreciates the commercial drivers behind the client. His oral advocacy is concise and incredibly convincing.

Tim is extremely easy to work with and understands the whole picture. He does not miss a thing.

Tim has precision and is extremely detail-oriented. He really covers all the bases, and is a compelling advocate who got us what we wanted.

Tim provides very incisive advice and speedily turns around paperwork. He's a very considered advocate who is so very hard-working.

Tim is an outstanding barrister who always demonstrates a superb grasp of the complex facts of a case. His advocacy in court is thoughtful, measured and well received by judges.

Tom is an ideal junior and an expert referral point if you want quick advice that you can rely on.

A powerful advocate who was a pleasure to deal with. He was very happy to jump on the phone and go through points with us.

Tom Roscoe got on top of the detail and delivered some really excellent written work. He did it with ease, which was great.

Tom's submissions are very strong, analytical and prepared in almost no time at all. It's a pleasure to work with him.

Andrew is understated and razor sharp.

Andrew Mold KC has a very good courtroom demeanour. He's very diligent, always across the papers and very good to work with.

Andrew never lets you down. Clever, practical and commercial, he's really good on the law and a fine all-rounder.

Andrew's advocacy and sense of judgement impress. He shows impeccable attention to detail and is a pleasure to instruct.

James is extremely bright and always gets to the root of the problem. Extremely hard-working and personable, he's a highly effective advocate.

James is very bright and highly creative.

James is incredibly commercial and turns around cases quickly. He is very flamboyant in his advocacy and just brilliant.

James has a broad knowledge of the law and thinks strategically. He reviews and analyses huge amounts of documents very quickly and is brilliant at trial.

Jonathan Chew is excellent and a really good team player.

Jonathan is the bee's knees for matters regarding finance and property, and has real intellectual firepower.

Jonathan Chew is a good team player who is great to deal with. He's very calm, good on his feet and someone whose advocacy impresses.

Joe is user-friendly and knowledgeable. His drafting is excellent.

Joseph is a sterling counsel with commercial astuteness. His advice is reliably on point.

Joe is very clever and thoughtful.

Joseph Steadman is very good. He is straightforward, very astute and nice to deal with.

A thorough and tenacious advocate who is also an excellent negotiator.

Marcia is a highly technical expert with a great sense of humour who knows how to diffuse difficult situations.

Marcia is a phenomenal advocate who thinks about tactics five or six steps ahead. She takes no rubbish – if she sees it, she will call it out.

Lovely to work with, Philippe is a first-rate lawyer who is incredibly attentive and detail-focused. His work is first rate, and nothing is too much trouble.

Philippe is someone who can take on the work of two or three barristers at once. He demonstrates knowledge of the law well beyond his years and is great at discerning the best strategy.

Philippe is calm under pressure. The calibre of his legal mind and analysis stands out, as do his work product and the ease with which he goes out of his way to help.

Philippe Kuhn possesses depth of expertise and advocacy skills that enable him to navigate the most intricate legal challenges with confidence and precision.

Bobby is a very strong advocate who is clearly respected by judges. He thinks through all of the angles of a case and has very good judgement.

Bobby is incredibly clever and incredibly hard-working.

Bobby is incredibly confident and well versed in the law. A very popular member of the team, he manages his caseload well and thinks about the strategy and what's to come next.

Hard-working, accessible and personable, he's a good team player.

Jack is calm, clear, pragmatic and very easy to use. He is very knowledgeable, and you feel like you are in very, very good hands with him.

Jack was just brilliant. He just got to grips with the issues so quickly – it was really impressive. A real asset on any case, he just knows his stuff.