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About
Provided by Laurence Rabinowitz KC
Practice Areas
KC specialising in commercial litigation, arbitration, banking and finance, sports law company law, energy, civil fraud, competition and professional liability.
Recent cases include acting for: Everton PLC in relation to issues arising out of their breach of the Premier League PSR rules; Cobalt v HMRC in the Supreme Court; BDW Trading v URS Corp appeal in the Supreme Court; Credit Suisse in a claim for investors in loan assets purchased on the secondary markets in relation to the scandal-hit US$2bn “tuna bond” loans made to the Republic of Mozambique; Visa Europe Services in long-running multilateral interchange fee litigation (High Court and Competition Appeal Tribunal); the Second and Third Defendants in the complex PJSC NBT v Mints litigation; the Danish Tax and Customs Administration in the SKAT fraud litigation; multi-national security services company G4S in defending shareholder claims for £100m+; International Petroleum Investment Company in its dispute with Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB; Hewlett Packard in £3.4bn damages claim regarding the acquisition of Autonomy; Tesco PLC in defence of shareholders claims brought under s90a FSMA 2000; a major international petroleum group in a c.US$5.5bn arbitration claim.
Notable cases: BTI v Sequana; Dargamo v Avonwick & Ors; IGE v HMRC; Hulley; Travelport v WEX; Arcadia Petroleum Ltd v Bosworth; Société Générale v Goldas; Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation Fund & Ors. v Novo Banco; Banco Santander Totta v Carris; RBS Rights Issue litigation; Littlewoods Limited & Ors v HMRC; Sabbagh v Khoury; Berezovsky v Abramovich; ‘Bank charges’ litigation; Colour Quest v Total Downstream ‘Buncefield’; Sempra Metals Ltd v Inland Revenue Commissioners.
Career
Called 1987, Middle Temple; tenant, 1 Essex Court, 1987; junior counsel to Crown, Chancery (1995-2002); silk, 2002; Deputy High Court Judge (Commercial Court and Chancery Division); Bencher Middle Temple, 2008; Bar Council (2015-2017); Chair of COMBAR (2015-2017).
Professional Memberships
COMBAR
Education
BA LLB (University of Witwatersrand), 1st Cum Laude, top graduating law student, Juta Prize, Advocates Prize for best graduating student.
1978 - 1983
Rhodes Scholar, South-At-Large.
1983
BA (Jurisprudence) Oxon, 1st.
BCL, 1st
Eldon Scholar