Peter Shaw KC

Mr Shaw was formerly a solicitor admitted in 1986. He has had extensive experience, both as a solicitor and at the Bar, acting in corporate and personal insolvency, banking litigation, mortgage enforcement and company and commercial litigation. He has acted on behalf of liquidators, receivers (both administrative and fixed charge), administrators and supervisors of company voluntary agreements. On the personal insolvency side he has regularly acted for trustees in bankruptcy and supervisors of individual voluntary arrangements. In addition to the above he has a wealth of experience acting for and advising creditors in utilising insolvency procedures to maximise recoveries. He also has a great deal of expertise in acting for liquidators in cases involving the fraudulent evasion of VAT.

Solicitor 1986-95; called to Bar 1995. Publications of note include: Liquidators’ assignments of causes of action – ‘Insolvency Law and Practice’ Vol 14, No 2 1998 (Part 1) and Vol 14, No 3 (Part 2); Administration – Peaceable re-entry by a landlord revisited [1999] 6 ‘Insolvency Lawyer’ p245; Bankruptcy and the Matrimonial Home – ‘Property Law Journal’ May 2004 No 130; Practical Implications of Leyland Daf – ‘International Corporate Rescue’ [2004] Vol 1 Issue 4; contributor of bankruptcy chapter to Jordans’ ‘Chancery Litigation Handbook’.