Enterprise Chambers

Head of Chambers: James Pickering KC

Senior Clerk: Michael Ireland

Chambers Administrator: Tracey Collins

Clerks: Raj Lamba, Duane Hitchman, Kenya Mendoza, Jonathan Mytton, Alpha Diaw, Elizabeth Sampson-Shaw and Olivia Wheeler

Fee's Clerk: Julia Bishopp

Tenants: 50

THE CHAMBERS Enterprise Chambers is a leading commercial chancery set, with experts consistently recommended in their fields by Chambers and Partners (for details of individual recommendations, please see the Chambers website). The set is in a position to offer specialists across a range of commercial chancery work, including commercial, civil fraud, insolvency and restructuring, company, banking, landlord and tenant, and property; the expertise within the set in insolvency and property uniquely places it to deal with disputes which involve both. Clients comment on both the outstanding quality of the work done by the set and its flexible and unstuffy approach, in particular the excellence of its clerking. The set has centres in London, Bristol, Leeds and Newcastle.

WORK UNDERTAKEN

Enterprise is able to provide specialist barristers in the following areas:

Commercial Disputes: Including contracts, banking, guarantees, securities, financial services regulation, insurance, sale and carriage of goods, consumer credit, competition, restraint of trade, breach of confidence, civil fraud, group actions and private international law.

Insolvency & Restructuring: Relating to companies, partnerships and individuals, including receiverships, administrations, voluntary arrangements, liquidations, bankruptcy, wrongful and fraudulent trading, preferences, transactions at an undervalue, other antecedent transactions, asset recovery and cross-border insolvency.

Civil Fraud - Fraudulent Misrepresentation and Deceit, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Cross-Border Fraud and Multi-Jurisdictional Disputes, Worldwide Freezing Order, Norwich Pharmacal Orders, Tracing Claims, Constructive Trusts and Proprietary Claims, Receivership Orders, Labour Supply Fraud, Property Fraud, Ponzi Schemes, Cyber / Cryptocurrency Fraud

Real Property & Landlord and Tenant: Concerning the legal and beneficial ownership of real property, including conveyancing and the sale of land, easements, restrictive covenants, adverse possession, boundary disputes, party wall, land registration, mortgages, LPA receivers, defective buildings, construction and engineering contracts and planning. Both opposed and unopposed lease renewals under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, Interim and terminal dilapidation claims; possession claims including those involving tenants, mortgagors and trespassers and claims under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 and the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995;

Company: Including unfair prejudice, derivative and other shareholders’ claims, directors’ disqualification, solvent and insolvent schemes, capital reductions, business transfers, companies’ securities and claims against directors.

Equitable Remedies: Including constructive and resulting trusts, tracing, injunctions, freezing injunctions, and search orders.

Banking & Financial Services: Mortgages and charges, guarantees and indemnities, receivership and administration, negligent investment advice and product mis-selling, payment fraud and misdirected payments, project finance, hire-purchase and asset finance.

Traditional Chancery: Including associations (partnerships, clubs and societies), charities, trusts, settlements, family provision, wills and probate, and Court of Protection.

Intellectual Property: Including copyright, trademarks, and passing off.

Professional Liability: Relating to accountants, actuaries, auditors, barristers, solicitors, insolvency practitioners, surveyors and construction professionals, and trustees.

PUBLICATIONS Butterworths‘Property Insolvency’; the Enterprise Chambers ‘Annotated Guide to Insolvency Legislation and Practice’; Bailey and Groves on ‘Corporate Insolvency – Law and Practice’; ‘The Landlord and Tenant Factbook’; Estates Gazette‘Questions and Answers’ series and the ‘Practical Law Property Litigation’ blog.

INTERNATIONAL Several members have previously practiced in fused professions overseas for extended periods of time and are admitted to practice there, including the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands. The set can provide barristers who are used to working abroad (often at very short notice) and who have material insight into the workings of particular jurisdictions.

Offices:

Bristol Clerk: Justin Emmett

Leeds Clerk: Ellen McInall