Nathaniel Bird

Practice Areas

Commercial Dispute Resolution; Banking & Finance; Civil Fraud; International Arbitration; Professional Negligence; Restructuring/Insolvency.

Career

An in-demand junior for heavyweight commercial litigation and arbitration, banking and civil fraud disputes. I am regularly instructed in high profile and high value matters. Recent experience includes: acting for Ukrainian businessman Gennadiy Bogolyubov in the PrivatBank litigation, successfully defeating a fraud claim brought by a Russian oil company in a 12 week Commercial Court trial; defending a multi-billion dollar claim arising out of the Malaysian 1MDB scandal; representing Dubai Islamic Bank in a significant dispute with the administrators of the NMC Group; acting for litigation funder Vannin in a prominent claim against the RBOS Shareholders Action Group (one of The Lawyer’s Top Cases of 2020). Notable past instructions include representing Citibank in the successful defence of a £2.3bn fraud claim brought by the Terra Firma private equity fund (one of The Lawyer’s Top Cases of 2016) and acting for Société Générale defending claims that high-value investments were procured by bribery in Libya (one of The Lawyer’s Top Cases of 2017). Named as one of The Lawyer’s ‘Hot 100’ in 2018.

2012 Call (Lincoln’s Inn). Education: LL.B. Law, London School of Economics (2009); LL.M., Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge (2010); BCL, Mansfield College, University of Oxford (2010).

Professional Memberships

COMBAR, LCIA