David Lord KC

December 30, 2015

David’s practice comprises Commercial and Chancery Litigation and Arbitration with particular emphasis on Insurance and Reinsurance, Company and Insolvency, Civil Fraud and Asset Tracing and Media and Entertainment in England and other jurisdictions in the Caribbean and Far East.

David is a member of COMBAR and the Chancery Bar Association. He is called to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands and has been called to the Bar of the Cayman Islands and the Bar of the Seychelles for particular cases. David is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is called to the New York State Bar (FLC).

At home, David regularly appears in both the Commercial Court and the Chancery Division of the High Court, as well as the Appellate Courts including the Privy Council. Internationally he appears regularly in different Caribbean jurisdictions and appeared recently before the Supreme Court of Seychelles as well acting in international arbitrations in Europe and the Far East.

David was heavily involved in the Lloyd’s litigation in the 1990s acting on behalf of the Names. He then became involved in the arbitrations that arose following the personal accident spiral and has since been involved in a number of High Court actions and arbitrations (including Bermuda Form Arbitrations) representing insureds, Lloyd’s syndicates, corporate insurers and reinsurers and brokers.

David was involved in the litigation that arose in relation to British & Commonwealth, Maxwell and Barings and acted for Prince Jefri in his long running dispute with the State of Brunei and the Brunei Investment Agency and for Mr Cherney in his oligarch battle with Mr Deripaska. He is currently involved in other litigation in London and the BVI involving Russian and other Eastern European oligarchs.

David has recently been involved in a large number of international arbitrations concerning subjects such as viatical insurance policies, a Romanian Bank, a Nigerian mobile telephone network, a steel mill in Malaysia, an aluminium smelting plant in Malaysia, and a dispute between a Chinese company and a Russian business concerning mobile telephone communications in Russia. He is currently involved in a high value Bermuda Form Arbitration in London.

He has been involved in a number of cross-border insolvency proceedings and in recent years has been heavily involved in Madoff related litigation in the British Virgin Islands, Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean and the Privy Council acting on behalf of Swiss Banks, and in proceedings brought in the Cayman Islands by the liquidator of a Cayman Fund against the directors of the Fund and to re-claim redemption payments from investors made prior to the liquidation.

David has also acted for a number of high profile sports stars, musicians and actors as well as corporate entities involved in the media and entertainment industry.


Matthew Marsh

May 10, 2021

Matthew qualified as a solicitor in 1977 and practised with London law firms in domestic and international business disputes and commercial property cases.

He became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 1992 and in 1996 obtained a Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration. He sat regularly as sole arbitrator in domestic and international arbitrations and conducted arbitrations for parties under a variety of rules including ICC and LCIA.

In 2002 he was appointed as a Recorder.

In 2012 he became a Chancery Master and Chief Master in 2014. He has recently retired from that role although continues to sit as a Deputy Chancery Master. Matthew has experience in the full range of work conducted in the Chancery Division including business disputes, banking, professional negligence, real estate, trusts and probate.

Matthew has wide experience in dispute resolution as a solicitor acting for parties in mediations. He set up the Chancery Financial Dispute Resolution procedure in the Chancery Division which uses a mix of facilitation and evaluation. While he was Chief Master he conducted Chancery FDRs in a range of cases.

Matthew is an accredited mediator.

In 2015 he was appointed an Honorary Bencher of Gray’s Inn.

He is available to accept appointments as a sole arbitrator or as a member of a panel.


Jonathan DC Turner

December 2, 2015

Jonathan is an experienced barrister specialising in intellectual property and competition law.

His practice covers all types of intellectual property and a wide variety of subject-matter. He is particularly well-known for litigation relating to fabric designs, domain name disputes, and issues relating to the interface between intellectual property and competition or free trade law.

He is also known for his willingness to take on difficult cases and fight tenaciously and creatively for his clients, challenging conventional views when necessary.

He has extensive experience of cases which involve both IP and commercial, international, tax or other issues.

He is the author of “Intellectual Property and EU Competition Law” (2d Edition, OUP 2015), which has been described as the leading work of reference on this subject.