Ranked in 2 Practice Areas
3

Band 3

Banking & Finance

London (Bar)

5 Years Ranked

3

Band 3

Consumer Finance

All Circuits

3 Years Ranked

About

Provided by Craig Ulyatt

UK Bar

Practice Areas

Commercial litigation, including all aspects of banking and finance, civil fraud, professional negligence, jurisdiction and conflict of laws, and aviation. In particular, Craig is regularly involved financial mis-selling cases, cases involving regulatory issues (such as unlicensed trading), and injunction applications (especially cases involving AML / POCA issues, frozen bank accounts and/or the withdrawal of banking services).

Recent notable cases include: Hutchinson v Wizz Air Hungary [2025] EWHC 1256 (KB) (worldwide freezing injunction); ThisCompany Ltd v Welsh [2025] EWHC 1207 (Comm) (civil fraud); Dexia Credit Local SA v Patrimonio del Trentino SpA [2024] EWHC 2717 (Comm) (swaps mis-selling); Kingdom Bank Corp v Moorwand [2023] EWHC 3069 (Comm) (Norwich Pharmacal relief against EMI); Merrill Lynch International v Citta Metropolitana di Milano [2023] EWHC 1015 (Comm) (swaps mis-selling); Bank of America Europe DAC v Citta Metropolitana di Milano [2022] EWHC 1544 (Comm) (swaps mis-selling); Gopee v The Crown Court at Southwark [2023] EWCA Civ 881; FCA v Barons Finance [2021] EWHC 2363 (Ch); [2022] EWHC 2647 (Ch) (remedial injunction against unlicensed moneylenders); von Pezold v Border Timbers [2020] EWHC 2172 (Ch) (dispute relating to overlapping ICSID arbitral awards); Banca Intesa v Commune di Venezia [2020] EWHC 3150 (Comm) (swaps mis-selling); GDE LLC v Anglia Autoflow [2020] EWHC 105 (Comm) (governing law of a contract).

Career

Called 2008; Admitted as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand in 2003.

Professional Memberships

COMBAR.

Personal

University of Auckland, NZ - LLB(Hons) and BA Psychology; Brasenose College, Oxford - BCL and MPhil; BPP – BVC.

Chambers Review

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UK Bar

Banking & Finance - London (Bar)

3
Band 3
Individual Editorial

Craig Ulyatt is an accomplished junior who appears both led and unled in a variety of banking and financial services cases. He regularly acts in matters involving financial mis-selling, particularly concerning interest rate swaps.


Consumer Finance - All Circuits

3
Band 3
Individual Editorial

Craig Ulyatt is a strong junior who specialises in banking and finance, with particular focus on financial mis-selling, notably interest rate swap cases.

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