JUNIOR PROFILE

Nicola Timmins

UK Bar 2026

4 Stone Buildings

Ranked in 3 practice areas

Chancery: Commercial

London (Bar)

5 years ranked

Restructuring/Insolvency

London (Bar)

1 year ranked

Commercial Dispute Resolution

London (Bar)

2 years ranked

About

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UK Bar

Practice Areas

Nicola has a broad commercial and commercial chancery practice with particular experience in high value complex disputes, typically involving international components. She has a particular focus on banking, financial services, civil fraud, the natural resources sector, insolvency law, company law, shareholder disputes, and directors disqualification.

Nicola has acted in three of “The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases” of the year during her career, most recently in 2023 acting for the former CEO of Carillion in the high-profile Carillion director disqualification proceedings which arose from allegations concerning the accounting treatment of infrastructure projects and followed the largest liquidation in UK history.

Alongside a busy practice in London, Nicola regularly accepts instructions in offshore matters, particularly from Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and the BVI (where she is called to the Bar).

As a former solicitor and judicial assistant in the Court of Appeal, Nicola is well placed to understand the needs of both her professional clients and the judiciary, and to tailor her advice and advocacy accordingly.

Career

Second Lieutenant, Royal Artillery (Short Service Limited Commission): 1998-1999

Researcher, The Hague Conference on Private International Law: 2004-2005

Trainee and Associate Solicitor in the dispute resolution department, Baker & McKenzie LLP: 2005-2008

Judicial Assistant to the Court of Appeal (on secondment from Baker & McKenzie): 2007

Qualified as a solicitor: 2007

Year of Call: 2008

Called to the BVI Bar: 2022

Professional Memberships

ChBA, Combar, International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation, Financial Services Lawyers Association

Personal

Emmanuel College, Cambridge: MA (Hons) and LLM

Chambers Review

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UK Bar

Restructuring/Insolvency - London (Bar)

Band 5

Individual Editorial

Building on her previous experience as a solicitor at Baker McKenzie, Nicola Timmins now has a busy practice at the Bar, where she specialises in insolvency. She acts for liquidators, creditors and shareholders and handles a variety of claims. Timmins is also called to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands.

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Strengths

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Nicola is technically sharp, extremely responsive and keenly aware of the key legal issues which the court would be most concerned with. She puts the right spin and emphasis on her submissions.
Chancery: CommercialUK Bar
Nicola Timmins is excellent at drafting.
Chancery: CommercialUK Bar
Nicola is very, very quick off the mark. She is thorough and has an appetite for work I've never seen before in a junior. A star in the making.
Chancery: CommercialUK Bar
Nicola managed to get to the crux of the issues very quickly despite the voluminous papers. Her advocacy on the day was extremely impressive, particularly given the challenges of the particular case.
Chancery: CommercialUK Bar
Nicola is really good at getting up to speed on complex matters and she pays lots of attention to the details.
Restructuring/InsolvencyUK Bar
She is excellent in drafting.
Restructuring/InsolvencyUK Bar