Philip Jones KC
About
Provided by Philip Jones KC
Career
Called to the Bar, 1985; from 1994 until 2006, Junior Counsel to the Crown (A Panel); King's Counsel, 2006; Bencher, Lincoln’s Inn, 2013.
Professional Memberships
Chancery Bar Association; COMBAR.
Practice Areas
Company and partnership law; insolvency; commercial fraud; commercial litigation generally; trusts and property litigation; professional negligence; tax litigation.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Philip Jones KC
Philip Jones KC
Philip Jones KC is a respected and highly sought-after silk with a fantastic reputation in company disputes. He maintains a thriving offshore practice and continues to undertake significant work on behalf of the government. Particular praise is reserved for his expertise in directors' disqualification.
Philip Jones KC
Philip Jones KC advises on the whole range of offshore matters, including investment fund litigation, trust disputes, fraud and tax avoidance. His clients include high net worth families and company directors. He has been called to the Bar of the BVI, the Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man.
Philip Jones KC
Philip Jones KC stands out for his clarity of thought, straightforwardness of exposition and high level of user-friendliness, founded upon many years' experience of handling partnership disputes. He is also prominent in the representation of solicitors' firms and property partnerships.
Philip Jones KC
Philip Jones KC
Philip Jones KC provides carefully crafted advice in difficult fraud disputes and is adept at addressing jurisdiction issues. His cases originate all over the world including the Caribbean, Europe and Asia.
Philip Jones KC
Philip Jones KC is a well-known advocate who is highly praised by market commentators for the breadth of his expertise, encompassing insolvency, fraud and financial services. He remains a particularly popular choice in complex offshore insolvency cases and counts government departments among his diverse clientele. His additional expertise in company law encompasses cases concerning directors' disqualification proceedings and winding-up petitions.
Philip Jones KC
Philip Jones KC is a talented commercial practitioner who regularly appears for HMRC in tax disputes, but also handles cases on the taxpayer side. He further advises on professional negligence matters relating to tax advice.
Philip Jones KC
Philip Jones KC is regularly instructed in professional negligence cases relating to a broad range of business professionals, including accountants, lawyers, company administrators and tax advisers. His practice benefits from his comprehensive understanding of commercial chancery law.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Philip comes up with imaginative and tactical solutions. He is very strategic."
"Philip has huge gravitas, and is tremendous to work with as he makes his views clear and doesn't sit on the fence."
"An extremely seasoned campaigner with great judgement."
"A fantastic litigator."
"Pleasant, very effective and good company to boot."
"Philip is a very strategic and imaginative advocate."
"He is good to work with and knows tax law well."
"He is a very calm advocate who is extremely pleasant to appear against."
"Philip Jones is a great advocate. He is both gentle and a good technical lawyer."
"Philip is very strategic and capable of coming up with imaginative, tactical advice."
"Hugely insightful, very helpful and responsive, and excellent in conference with clients. He is exactly what you want from an experienced chancery silk: he gives a lot of direction and is also very down to earth and easy to work with."
"A very elegant advocate." "He has a supreme intellect."
"A barrister with finely tuned commercial instincts."
"Philip comes up with imaginative and tactical solutions. He is very strategic."
"Philip has huge gravitas, and is tremendous to work with as he makes his views clear and doesn't sit on the fence."
"An extremely seasoned campaigner with great judgement."
"A fantastic litigator."
"Pleasant, very effective and good company to boot."
"Philip is a very strategic and imaginative advocate."
"He is good to work with and knows tax law well."
"He is a very calm advocate who is extremely pleasant to appear against."
"Philip Jones is a great advocate. He is both gentle and a good technical lawyer."
"Philip is very strategic and capable of coming up with imaginative, tactical advice."
"Hugely insightful, very helpful and responsive, and excellent in conference with clients. He is exactly what you want from an experienced chancery silk: he gives a lot of direction and is also very down to earth and easy to work with."
"A very elegant advocate." "He has a supreme intellect."
"A barrister with finely tuned commercial instincts."
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