Shail Patel KC

Practice Areas

Commercial litigation with a particular focus on financial services, professional liability and insurance disputes.

His commercial caseload spans multi-jurisdictional disputes in court and arbitration proceedings. It includes corporate and shareholder disputes and claims against officers, trustees and recipients of funds, particularly where those claims have an off-shore element. He is a leading specialist in securities fraud actions under s.90 and s.90A of FSMA and has been instructed in more than 10 separate actions including Tesco, RBS and other confidential matters. He is also experienced at obtaining and defending applications for urgent injunctive relief, including freezing, evidence preservation and Norwich Pharmacal orders.

Shail is a ranked insurance junior with extensive experience including coverage and fraud cases. Recent highlights include acting for insurers in the COVID-19 FCA Business Interruption Test Case.

Shail’s professional liability practice focusses on financial, tax and legal professionals. Shail has been involved in many of the most significant investment and film scheme claims of recent years. In 2020 he was nominated Chambers and Partners Professional Negligence junior of the year.

Career

MA Oxon (1st class), LLM Harvard. Called 2006 (Inner Temple Peter Taylor Scholar).

Professional Memberships

COMBAR; PNBA. FSLA, CFLA

Publications

Co-Editor: “Jackson and Powell on Professional Liability.”, regulation of financial services and financial professionals.