Matthew Morrison

Practice Areas

Broad commercial chancery practice. Particular emphasis on civil fraud, company and partnership, insolvency, and trusts. Appearance in several judicial review claims and other matters raising issues of public and administrative law.

Sole counsel in proceedings before the High Court, the Court of Appeal, the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands and the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal. Junior counsel in large-scale commercial and chancery matters both onshore and offshore including in the Courts of the DIFC and the BVI. Significant experience of assisting advocates before the Royal Courts of Jersey and Guernsey.

Cases include: Re Bulb Energy Limited; Croxen v GEMA; Salfiti v Seedo; Re Haz International; Punjab National Bank v Srinivasan & Ors; Ridley v Dubai Islamic Bank (Jersey and England); Re AMT Coffee Limited; IAP v Rosser; Re Galasys plc (Jersey and England); Carlyle Capital Corporation (Guernsey); Isis Investments Limited v Kaupthing Bank (Isle of Man and England); BTA Bank v Ablyazov & Ors; Re Alhamrani (Jersey).

Career

St John’s College, Oxford (Jurisprudence (MA (Oxon.), BCL); Attorney at Quin and Hampson (now Mourant Ozannes), Cayman (2005-06); formerly Junior Counsel to the SoS for BEIS.

Professional Memberships

Chancery Bar and Commercial Bar Associations; Association of Partnership Practitioners.

Publications

Chapters on directors’ duties, directors’ liabilities in insolvency and disqualification in Butterworths Corporate Law Service and Tolleys Company Law Service; PLC practice notes on minority shareholder rights and remedies and various private client topics; chapters on unfair prejudice, disqualification and insolvency liabilities in The Law of LLPs (Whitaker and Machell, 5th ed).