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Mark Watson-Gandy Chancery/Commercial legal UK Mark Watson-gandy
Professor Mark Watson-Gandy was called to the Bar in 1990 and was made a Junior Counsel to the Crown in 2000. In 2004 he joined the Bar Council’s panel of Young Spokesmen for the Bar.
He is a tenant at Thirteen Old Square Chambers. Mark’s work is primarily in the areas of insolvency and company law.
He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Westminster (teaching on their Corporate Finance Law LLM) and a Visiting Lecturer at Cass Business School (teaching the business law elective on their Executive MBA). He holds the Institute of Chartered Accountant’s Corporate Finance qualification.
He is the author of "Watson-Gandy on Accountants", “Corporate Insolvency Practice: Litigation Practice and Procedure”, “Personal Insolvency Practice: Litigation Practice and Procedure” and the ICAEW Guide "Tax Advocacy". He is one of the Editors of the Company Law volume of the “Butterworths Corporate Law Service”. He is Head of Professional Standards for the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers.
His cases include: DTI v Daniel (2002) The Times 8th April (instructed for the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry both at first instance and before the Court of Appeal in this human rights test case on the reverse burden of proof in bankruptcy prosecutions), Society of Lloyds v Levy [2004] 3 CMLR 56 (Lloyds Names challenge to premium claims under the Audit Directive) and Feetum v Levy (2005) The Times 28th February (the first case on the £50 million project finance
exception to the bar on administrative receivers under the Enterprise Act 2002), Khan v Nallamothu [2005] All ER D (Oct) 60 (company hi-jack), Watersheds v Da Costa [2010] Bus LR 1 (FSMA implications when raising corporate finance for clients), Kaupthing Capital Partners [2010] Lawtel (validity of the administration of the investment fund of Iceland’s largest Bank) and Re Marrache [2010] (specially admitted to the Gibraltar Bar to appear as leading counsel in this high profile bankruptcy case before the Gibraltar Court of Appeal).
Contact: Mark’s work is
primarily in the areas of insolvency and company law.
Professor Mark Watson-Gandy 13 Old Square Lincoln’s Inn
London WC2A 3UE
Tel + 44 207 831 4445 Fax + 44 207 841 5825 Email
mwg@13oldsquare.com Website
www.13oldsquare.com
He was a finalist in Credit Today magazine’s Insolvency & Rescue Awards 2009 and 2010 as “Barrister of the Year” and was voted in Acquisition International M & A Awards “UK Insolvency Barrister of the Year” in 2012. He was knighted by His Holiness Pope Benedict in 2007.
about thirteen old square Chambers
13 Old Square is a specialist chancery/ commercial English barristers’ chambers in
Lincoln’s Inn founded by leading chancery silk, John McDonnell QC.
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