Alex Barden KC

Alex’s practice covers a wide range of commercial disputes, especially corporate and insolvency, banking, fund and LLP law, group actions and civil fraud. He has particular experience of complex litigation and arbitration involving financial institutions, often with an international element or a regulatory dimension. His clients include institutions, funds, listed companies, government bodies, litigation funders and high net worth individuals.

Recent cases include acting for the successful claimants in the EUR 1.2 billion Argentina Sovereign Debt litigation, for Italian oil giant Eni in its successful defence of a $1 billion bribery claim, and proceedings arising from the merger of brokers Tullett Prebon and ICAP.

He has appeared as sole counsel in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court, and in multiple Commercial Court trials, including for challenger bank Zopa and for hedge fund Cerberus.

Alex is currently acting in the US FDIC’s cartel claim against the LIBOR panel banks, in FSMA s.90A claims against Reckitt Benckiser, and in civil fraud proceedings for the recovery shares in French fashion conglomerate SMCP.

Alex has particular experience in the field of financial institutions, having acted for the institutional claimants in the £4 billion RBS Rights Issue Litigation, for Kaupthing Bank, and for structured finance creditors in the insolvencies of Lehman Brothers and MF Global.

He is also prominent in the specialist company and insolvency field, having acted in the Edwardian Hotels shareholder dispute, in the Stobart Group boardroom dispute and in the Liontrust and Marathon fund litigation.