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Provided by Zara McGlone
Zara has a busy commercial chancery practice, with a focus on company, insolvency, commercial litigation and arbitration, civil fraud, and banking and finance. She also practises in the DIFC Courts, where she acted as sole counsel for the successful Sixth-Eighth Defendants in Union Bank of India v Velocity, a ten-day trial before Justice Lord Angus Glennie. Notable instructions include: acting as sole counsel for the administrators of the Oasis and Warehouse retail chain (2022-2024); Autonomy v Lynch (2022-2024); Re Compound Photonics (2021-2022); acting as sole counsel for the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority in respect of energy company insolvencies (2021). Zara was appointed to the Attorney General’s ‘C’ Panel in September 2023.
Called to the Bar of the Dubai International Financial Centre and the Astana International Financial Centre. Chancery Bar Association, COMBAR, British Kazakh Lawyers Association.
‘Case Report: Hyde and Anor (as joint liquidators of Radarbeam Limited) v Todd [2024] EWHC 1423 (Ch)’ – Corporate Rescue and Insolvency, August 2024
‘Risks for lenders as sole signatories on blocked accounts’ - Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Finance Law, July 2024
‘Oceanfill v Nuffield: a clear outlook for commercial landlords?’ – Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Finance Law, January 2023
Contributor to Loose and Griffiths on Liquidators (2019)
Provided by Chambers
Zara McGlone impresses due to her company law practice focusing on unfair prejudice proceedings. Whilst a popular choice for many leading silks, Zara also regularly acts as sole counsel in significant matters. Her clients include well-known UK plcs.
Provided by Chambers
A really good junior who is an invaluable resource, Zara is a barrister who grasps everything so quickly. She is great to bounce ideas off and good at providing strategic advice.
Zara is extremely hard-working and very energetic. She also has good judgement and is a delight to work with.
A really good junior who is an invaluable resource, Zara is a barrister who grasps everything so quickly. She is great to bounce ideas off and good at providing strategic advice.
Zara is extremely hard-working and very energetic. She also has good judgement and is a delight to work with.
