Craig Ulyatt

Practice Areas

Commercial litigation, including all aspects of banking and finance, civil fraud, professional negligence, jurisdiction and conflict of laws, and professional discipline. 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: Merrill Lynch International v Citta Metropolitana di Milano [2023] EWHC 1015 (Comm) (interest rate swaps mis-selling); Bank of America Europe DAC v Citta Metropolitana di Milano [2022] EWHC 1544 (Comm) (interest rate swaps mis-selling); Gopee v The Crown Court at Southwark [2023] EWCA Civ 881 (procedural requirements for GCROs); Latchworth Ltd v HSBC Bank (claim arising out of expropriation of €11.9 million in trust account); FCA v Barons Finance Ltd [2021] EWHC 2363 (Ch); [2022] EWHC 2647 (Ch) (remedial injunction against unlicensed money lenders); von Pezold v Border Timbers [2020] EWHC 2172 (Ch) (dispute relating to overlapping ICSID arbitral awards for US$124 million against Zimbabwe); Banca Intesa v Commune di Venezia [2020] EWHC 3150 (Comm) (interest rate swaps mis-selling); GDE LLC v Anglia Autoflow Ltd [2020] EWHC 105 (Comm) (governing law of an agency 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.