We have adopted a specialist team approach to our practices for many years. We feel that this is the way our clients want us to work, and that specialisation leads to the provision of a better service.
We have adopted a specialist team approach to our practices for many years. We feel that this is the way our clients want us to work, and that specialisation leads to the provision of a better service.
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30/07/2024
Guildhall Chambers’ Hugh Sims KC and Simon Passfield KC have each been called to the British Virgin Islands (BVI) bar. They are also admitted to practise as a Barrister of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court by the Honourable Madam Justice Sonya Young at hearings on 27 June and 29 July 2024.
Charles Goldblatt presented Hugh’s petition for admission to the BVI Bar. While André Sheckleford, from Conyers Dill & Pearman’s British Virgin Islands (BVI) practice, presented Simon’s. We are enormously grateful for their support, as well as for the considerable assistance of Conyer’s Delphine Bryan and Matthew Brown.
Simon Passfield KC is a specialist insolvency silk. Who undertakes litigation and advisory work in all areas of insolvency and restructuring law. Simon became King’s Counsel this year. He is described as having “exceptional knowledge and ability”, “clear thinking, technically excellent and really client friendly”– The Legal 500.
Hugh Sims KC has outstanding and broad-ranging commercial and insolvency expertise. Which has often seen him involved in international matters and work involving offshore jurisdictions. He is described as “an absolutely brilliant advocate with an exceptional brain; he lives for the court” – Chambers UK Bar.
Commercial Dispute Resolution
Banking & Finance
Insolvency and Restructuring
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