Simon Atrill KC

Practice Areas

Civil and commercial litigation including banking, financial services, insurance/reinsurance, civil fraud, pharmaceuticals and professional negligence.

Chambers and Partners Banking and Finance Junior of the Year 2019; shortlisted three further times.

Recent cases: Russian aircraft insurance claims (for war risk insurers); Law Debenture v Ukraine (first instance to Supreme Court); Times Travel (SC, economic duress); Al Saud v Gibbs (fraudulent advisor); NOx emissions group litigation; Madison Pacific v PrivatBank (Notes, illegality); Kodric v Bitstamp (options, cryptocurrency exchange); Group Seven v Nasir (trial, CA: fraud); Blue v Mike Ashley (oral agreement); NBT v Yurov (fraud); Marme v RBS (misrepresentation); BTA Bank v Ablyazov; OFT v Abbey National (retail bank charges) [2010] 1 A.C. 696); Group Seven v Sultana [2014] 1 W.L.R. 735 (freezing injunctions), [2014] EWHC 2046 (Ch) (trial), [2015] EWCA Civ 631; BAT v Windward [2014] 2 All ER (Comm) 757; swaps and PPI litigation; IBC v MAR [2010] 1 All ER (Comm) 112; ICB v Akingbola; various cases in Cayman Islands, Hong Kong and Trinidad and Tobago.

Career

Called 2005. Silk 2023.

Professional Memberships

COMBAR.

Publications

Legal Privilege and Mandatory Disclosure under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 [2005] LMCLQ; "Choice of Law in Contract" (2004) ICLQ; several in Cambridge Law Journal.

Personal

St Catharine's College, Cambridge (Double First); St John's College, Oxford (BCL, Distinction); University of Pennsylvania (LLM, summa cum laude).