He is ranked as a “Rising Star” (Tier 1) for civil fraud (London Bar) and commercial disputes (English Bar Offshore) in the 2026 Legal 500 rankings.
Much of Nicholas’ work has an international or offshore dimension. He has worked on commercial disputes arising out of various overseas jurisdictions, including the BVI, the Bahamas, Mauritius, Gibraltar (where he has been called ad hoc to the Bar), Jersey, Italy, Switzerland and various CIS and Gulf states. He has twice appeared on his feet before the Privy Council in commercial appeals from Trinidad and Tobago and Saint Christopher and Nevis. He has also spent time as a secondee at BonelliErede, a leading Italian law firm.
He regularly works as part of counsel teams (both within and outside of Chambers) on complex, high-value commercial disputes. In addition, he often appears as sole counsel in trials, interim applications and costs and case management conferences. He has successfully appeared as sole counsel in the High Court on multiple occasions against opponents many years more senior.
Recent and ongoing case highlights in his main practice areas include:
Civil Fraud & Asset Recovery
Commercial Litigation & International Arbitration
Insolvency & Company
Cryptoassets & Blockchain Technology
Before joining Chambers, Nicholas researched and taught law as a Visiting Lecturer at City, University of London, where he received the Law School’s Teaching Excellence Award. He has developed expertise in matters of international law, having spent time at The Hague Academy of International Law as a private international law scholar and having been part of the Gray’s Inn team that won the UK National Championship in the Jessup International Law Moot.
Nicholas is ranked as a “Rising Star” (Tier 1) in civil fraud in the Legal 500 2026 UK Bar rankings. He is the only barrister of his year of call ranked in this category.
He has a busy civil fraud and asset recovery practice, with wide-ranging experience of drafting pleadings and advising on complex, high-value disputes where fraud is alleged. He has particular experience of freezing injunction applications and other forms of interim relief in support of civil fraud and asset recovery matters.
Nicholas regularly speaks on civil fraud topics. Alongside Tom Poole KC and Andrew Barns-Graham, he has delivered a series of talks on freezing injunctions and proprietary injunctions. He also recently recorded a Lexis Nexis webinar with Andrew Barns-Graham titled “Freezing injunctions: a landmark anniversary and a new model order”, the first webinar of its kind to analyse the new model freezing order.
Nicholas is ranked as a “Rising Star” (Tier 1) in commercial disputes offshore in the Legal 500 2026 UK Bar rankings. He is the only barrister of his year of call ranked in this category.
He has extensive commercial litigation experience, both as part of a team and as sole counsel, advising on commercial remedies (including equitable remedies) across various sectors such as banking and finance, insurance and reinsurance, digital assets, technology, construction, aviation and medical technology.
He has particular knowledge of complex conflict of laws questions in international commercial litigation, including jurisdiction, applicable law, anti-suit injunctions, freezing injunctions and enforcement. He has studied private international law at The Hague Academy as a scholar.
In addition, he has unique experience amongst members of the Bar of drafting contracts, including a multilateral cryptocurrency/blockchain technology contract and a share purchase agreement.
Nicholas has a busy and varied insolvency and company law practice. In addition to his led work on heavy commercial chancery applications and trials, he regularly appears as sole counsel before Insolvency and Companies Court judges.
He has experience of a wide range of insolvency and company law matters, including partnership disputes, shareholder disputes, unfair prejudice petitions, as well as antecedent transaction, misfeasance, wrongful trading and fraudulent trading claims. He is also regularly instructed to appear in winding-up and bankruptcy petitions, applications to set aside statutory demands and bespoke applications under the Insolvency Act 1986 and Companies Act 2006.
He has been successful in multiple reported insolvency and company matters as sole counsel.
Nicholas has experience of both commercial arbitrations and investor-state arbitrations. He is familiar with major arbitral regimes such as the ICC Rules, the LCIA Rules and the ICSID Rules. He also has experience of court litigation supportive of arbitration such as anti-suit injunctions and enforcement of arbitral awards.
He has coached teams for and participated in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot.
ICSID arbitration: Assisted with a $300 million ICSID arbitration between a construction and engineering company and a national government.
Nicholas is regularly instructed on commercial disputes with an international or offshore dimension. In recent years he has worked on cases arising out of many jurisdictions, including the BVI, the Bahamas, Jersey, Mauritius and Gibraltar (where he has been called to the Bar).
He has considerable experience of appeals to the Privy Council from numerous jurisdictions in the Caribbean and Mauritius. Despite his recent call date, in October 2024 he became one of the most junior members of the Bar to address the Privy Council on his feet in a commercial interpretation appeal arising out of Trinidad and Tobago.
Nicholas has considerable experience in disputes involving technology and fintech, particularly the law in relation to blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies, smart legal contracts and digital assets (including cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens).
He has an emerging interest in decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs), having recently appeared on a specialist panel about the legal characterisation of DAOs and how to sue them.
Nicholas has a wide range of experience of banking and financial services disputes. He is particularly familiar with the law surrounding syndicated loan agreements, international bond issues, derivatives and securitisation.
He also has considerable experience of consumer credit claims under the Consumer Credit Act 1974, in particular “unfair relationship” claims in the context of motor finance following the UK Supreme Court’s decision in Hopcraft and another v Close Brothers Ltd [2025] UKSC 33.
Nicholas has experience of a range of professional negligence disputes, particularly in the context of professional service providers such as lawyers, accountants and auditors. He has experience of advising on all aspects of professional negligence claims founded on contract and / or tort, from liability and quantum to causation and remoteness.
Nicholas has a broad property litigation practice, encompassing both the commercial and the residential context. He has represented institutional lenders, investors and developers, as well as individual consumers.
Nicholas has considerable experience of traditional chancery litigation. He has worked on complex trusts and estates matter for both private and corporate clients, domestic and international.
He has particular experience of acting in claims involving disputes over beneficial interests in land and relief available under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996.
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