Robert Gardner
Global Guide 2024
Band 2 : Dispute Resolution
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About
Provided by Robert Gardner
Practice Areas
Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Career
Rob is head of Bedell Cristin's litigation team. He is a very experienced commercial litigator and insolvency specialist. He joined the firm in 2006 following a successful 10 year career working for 2 large City of London law firms and a 5 year stint at a leading offshore law firm in Cayman, during which time he was also admitted to the bar of the British Virgin Islands. He is now based in our London office, although continues his work as a full time Jersey advocate (having been admitted to the Jersey Bar in 2011).
He is involved in a broad range of commercial litigation, particularly shareholder disputes and litigation involving trusts and is regularly involved in assisting with applications by trustees and beneficiaries including in relation to rectification, mistake and the rule in Hastings-Bass.
On the insolvency side he also works closely with insolvency practitioners in Jersey and elsewhere. He regularly advises companies, directors, shareholders, creditors and insolvency office holders on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious insolvency and restructuring work, particularly where there is a cross border element. Current or recent insolvency work includes acting for liquidators in the court winding up of a Jersey corporate group owning valuable real estate in Jersey; acting on a novel and contested letter of request application; acting for the company and thereafter the liquidators of a significant listed Jersey technology company; representing the liquidators of a football gambling platform.