SILK PROFILE

Olivier Kalfon KC

UK Bar 2026

Maitland Chambers

Ranked in 2 practice areas

Chancery: Commercial

London (Bar)

13 years ranked

Restructuring/Insolvency

London (Bar)

21 years ranked

About

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Practice Areas

Olivier specialises in commercial chancery litigation with a strong emphasis on business disputes (often with an international dimension), civil fraud, company and insolvency, and banking / financial services litigation.

Career

Called to the Bar of England and Wales (Inner Temple) 2003. Admitted to the Bar in the Cayman Islands in 2006. Admitted to practice as a Legal Practitioner in the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI) in 2016.

Professional Memberships

Commercial Bar Association; Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association; Chancery Bar Association

Chambers Review

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UK Bar

Restructuring/Insolvency - London (Bar)

New Silks

Individual Editorial

Olivier Kalfon offers a broad practice with notable strength in the areas of insolvency, banking and finance, and dispute resolution. He is able to draw on his merchant banking background to provide expert technical advice concerning financial litigation.

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Strengths

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He can assimilate facts very quickly in a logical way and is an excellent advocate as well.
Restructuring/InsolvencyUK Bar
On his feet, Olivier is incredibly robust. He is a very strong barrister.
Chancery: CommercialUK Bar
Olivier assimilates facts very quickly and looks at cases in a very logical way. He can picture a factual matrix in his mind and process it in real time. He's an excellent advocate as well.
Chancery: CommercialUK Bar
Olivier is a silk-level advocate and adviser. He's strong tactically and commercially astute.
Chancery: CommercialUK Bar
Olivier Kalfon is always well prepared and his advice is commercially focused.
Chancery: CommercialUK Bar