Richard Morgan QC
Call 1988
Silk 2011
rmorgan@maitlandchambers.com
Richard is principally involved in large scale Chancery/commercial litigation covering aspects of company law, commercial contracts, insolvency, civil fraud, asset tracing and recovery, and conflict of laws, along with the broader stream of Chancery work, including property litigation, partnership, professional negligence, sports law, arbitrations and mediation. He has significant experience both applying for and opposing the grant of freezing orders and other interim relief, particularly those with jurisdictional issues. Richard has recently been instructed in a number of international arbitrations under LCIA, ICC and ICDR rules concerning (amongst other things) trading in China, internet operations in Russia, Ukrainian banking documents and the sale of a multinational construction business. He has also appeared in the BVI obtaining the appointment of a receiver over a company having an indirect interest in Chinese assets and has advised an overseas fund in relation to the loss of certain investments. Over the last few years he has appeared in England in cases concerning an alleged conspiracy to misappropriate assets in a Russian insolvency, the alleged embezzlement of US$1.1 billion from a Kazakh bank, the alleged breach of an agreement to pay consultancy fees in relation to a development in St Petersburg, and an alleged fraud committed by directors against a listed gas company. His past cases have included the misappropriation of client account monies by a solicitor, internet security, contracts with international financial organizations, the reconstruction of a unit trust, a debt recovery exercise against a sovereign state, and a number of cases involving multi-million pound domestic and international frauds, as well as having previously been instructed in Derby v Weldon, BCCI and Morris v Mahfouz and aspects of Maxwell. He is recommended in Chambers UK Directory for Commercial Dispute Resolution and Civil Fraud and in The Legal 500 for Commercial Litigation and Civil Fraud.
Richard has experience of working with lawyers in a number of other jurisdictions, including Australia, Singapore, the Middle East, Russia, Kazakhstan, Cyprus, USA, Bermuda, and France, as well as the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands (principally Jersey). Richard has appeared in the Cayman Islands, and has been called to the Bar of the East Caribbean States, appearing in the British Virgin Islands, and in the Isle of Man. He has contributed to Insolvency Bulletins (as author of ‘International Asset Chasing and Tracing’) and was the author of ‘Litigation Strategies aimed at Swelling Assets’ in Butterworths Practical Insolvency.
Richard has experience sitting as both a special examiner and an arbitrator and has recently provided an expert determination in a Hong Kong case concerning a BVI company.
The clerks are happy to discuss the basis on which Richard will act in any given matter. In the absence of express written agreement otherwise, the terms under which Richard accepts instructions are The Standard Contractual Terms for the Supply of Legal Services By Barristers to Authorised Persons 2012 (as updated from time to time) referred to in the BSB Handbook.
Notable Cases
P (a co inc in country A) v D (a co inc in country B) & ors (2019)
In the matter of Olympia Securities Commercial v WDW 3 Investments Ltd (2017)
Koza Ltd v Mustafa Akcil (2016)
Tatneft v Bogolyubov & Ors (2016)
Erste Group Bank AG (London) v JSC (VMZ Red October) [2015]
Cifal Groupe SA & Ors v Meridian Securities (UK) Ltd & Ors (2013)
Erste Group Bank AG (London) v JSC (VMZ Red October) & Ors (2013)
Niklas Zennstrom v Kevin Fagot (2013)
Alliance Bank JSC v Aquanta Corp & 14 Ors (2012)
OJSC TNK-BP Holding v Beppler & Jacobson Ltd & 12 Ors (2012)
Caldero Trading Ltd v Beppler & Jacobson Ltd & Ors (2012)
Al Sanea v Saad Investments Co Ltd (2012)
Alliance Bank JSC v Aquanta Corp & 14 Ors (2011)
Saad Investments Co Ltd (In Liquidation) v Maan Abdulwahed Abdulmajeed Al-Sanea (2011)
Cadogan Petroleum Plc & 9 Ors v Mark Tolly & 10 Ors (2011)
Awal Bank BSC (In Administration) v Maan Abdulwahed Abdulmajeed Al-Sanea (2011)
In The Matter Of Overnight Ltd (2010)
Chantry Estates (South East) Ltd v Anderson (2010)
Itsalat International Co Ltd v Allied TC Plc & Ors (2009)
Cadogan Petroleum Plc v Mark Tolley (December 2009)
Cadogan Petroleum PLC v Tolley (October 2009)
Pier Antonio Merlo v Michael Joseph Duffy (2009)
Kier Regional Ltd v City & General (Holborn) Ltd & Others (2008)
Lambert v MCM Select Foods Ltd (2008)
Chantry Estates (South East) Ltd v Anderson & Anor (2008)
Post Office Ltd v Lee Castleton (2007)
Global Multimedia International Ltd v (1) ARA Media Services (2006)
Ian Franses (Liquidator of Arab News Network Ltd) v Somar Al Assad (2007)
Rockbrook Ltd v (1) Humayun Khan (2) Miracles by Design Ltd (2006)
Walker International Holdings Ltd v Congo & Ors (2005)
Interleasing (UK) Ltd v Nicolas Melvyn Morris (2002)
Locabail (UK) Ltd v (1) Bayfield Properties Ltd (2) Barbara Hagan Emmanuel (1999)
Leslie Green (Appellant) v Swami Das Satsangi (Respondent) (1997)
Secretary of State for Trade & Industry v Richard Richardson (1997)
Routestone Ltd v (1) Minories Finance Ltd (1996)
Banque Bruxelles Lambert S.A. v Eagle Star Insurance Co Ltd
In Re Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA & Anor (1994)
NCNB Texas National Bank v Evensong Co Ltd (1991)
Derby & Co Ltd & Ors v Weldon & Ors (No.9) (1990)
Memberships
COMBAR, Chancery Bar Association, Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association
Qualifications
LLB (Bucks), LLM (Cantab)