Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Barry Donnelly is a commercial litigator who focuses on the areas of banking and financial markets and financial services regulation. His extensive experience encompasses a wide range of investment banking and financial services and markets problems and disputes involving derivatives and other financial products, lending/security, trade finance, asset management, and fraud. His representation of clients has included complex, often cross-border, disputes involving the coordination of proceedings and obtaining evidence in the Cayman Islands, the BVI, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, France, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Brazil, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Greece, Ireland, the United States, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Russia. In addition, Barry has significant experience in corporate insolvency and restructuring as well as in trusts litigation where he has advised the trustee arms of financial institutions in a broad range of trust-related problems and disputes.

Barry also represents clients with investigations and proceedings involving regulatory bodies and government agencies, including the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the Serious Fraud Office. He frequently advises and conducts investigations for financial institutions and other FSA-regulated investment businesses in matters such as allegations pertaining to the sale of CFDs in an AIM-listed company, market abuse through misuse of information, insider dealing in convertible bond issues, analysts' conflicts of interest, internal fraud, and failings in investment management.

Barry has represented clients in disputes relating to some of the most well-known cases over the past 20 years, including the BCCI liquidators' claim for US$10.5 billion against National Commercial Bank, Saudi Arabia, and others; the claim by the liquidators of First Tokyo Index Trust (a Maxwell subsidiary) in connection with the recovery of £70 million of Swiss Bank lending; the bondholders of Maxwell Communications; the civil proceedings arising out of the Blue Arrow affair; the Queens Moat Houses litigation; and claims stemming from an investigation into the collapse of the Finelist Group.

Barry is a member of the International Bar Association (International Litigation, Banking, Insolvency, and Regulatory/Securities Sections), the UK Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3), Insol Europe, and Insol International. He is mentioned in recent editions of the U.K. Legal 500 as "superb," "client friendly," and "hands on" and in the Legal Business publication Legal Experts for banking litigation.

Areas of Practice

• Financial Institutions Litigation & Regulation
• Trial Practice
• Business Restructuring & Reorganization
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Official Unsecured Creditors' Committees
• Secured Lender Groups
• Bondholder Committees
• Other Significant Creditor Representations
• Out-of-Court Restructurings
• Distressed Mergers & Acquisitions
• Global Restructuring Matters
• Financial Services
• e-Discovery

Representative Cases

• ABN AMRO Bank NV v. Rafidain Bank of Iraq
• Apostolakis v. Standard Bank
• Bairstow and Others v. Queens Moat Houses Plc
• BCCI SA and Another v. National Commercial Bank and Others
• Capital Trust Investments Limited v. Radio Design AB and Others
• Compagnie Noga and Republic of Nigeria v. Various
• Duracell v. Eveready
• First Tokyo Index Trust Limited v. Morgan Stanley & Co., et al.
• GEC (Pension Fund) and Others v. County NatWest and Others
• Genira v. Refco
• Guardian Royal Exchange Plc v. Jackson Stops & Staff
• In re Financial Services Authority and Evolution Beeson Gregory
• In re Finelist Group Ltd.
• In re Maxwell Communications Corporation Plc
• In re TC Coombs
• In re Trading Technologies
• John Dee Group/Coopers & Lybrand v. Magnet Plc
• OMV v. Quantum Gas Management and Another
• Sanwa Bank and Sanwa Financial Products v. Commerce International Malaysian Bank
• Securities and Investments Board v. Mildminster Limited and Anor
• Shaina Investment Corporation v. Standard Bank
• Socimer International Bank v Standard Bank
• Taylor Woodrow v. Barclays Bank Plc
• UBS v. A Bank

West Practice Categories

Bankruptcy Law, Bankruptcy Litigation, Business & Commercial Law, Business & Trade, Business Organizations, Class Actions, Collections & Repossessions, Collections & Repossessions, Commercial Bankruptcy, Commercial Leasing, Complex Litigation, Consumer Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights, Debt Discharge, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Trial Practice, Foreclosures, Garnishment, International Law, International Trade Litigation, Litigation & Appeals, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Military & Veterans Appeals, Multidistrict Litigation, Patent Litigation, Reorganizations, Reorganizations & Restructuring, Securities Law, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court, Workouts

Bar Admissions

• Law Society of England and Wales

Education

• City University London

Published Works

• Bribery and Corruption Reform: Proposed Modern UK Laws Target Companies and LLPs, 2009
• Bribery and Corruption Reform - Proposed modern UK laws target Companies and LLPs, The Bulletin, 2009
• JPMorgan Chase Bank v Springwell Navigation Corporation, Part 2, 2009
• JPMorgan Chase Bank v. Springwell Navigation Corporation, Part 1: A Banker's Duty to Advise, 2008
• Banking and Financial Markets Litigation Commentaries, 2004
• Regulatory Monitor, 2003
• Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency: Administration Pursuant to Section 8 of the Insolvency Act 1986: Two Recent Cases of Interest to the US, 2003
• Upgrading the plumbing of global markets, coauthor, Financial Regulation International, Issue 6:2, 2003
• Obtaining Evidence Abroad for Use in U.S. Litigation, coauthor, New York Law Journal, Vol. 228, No. 36, 2002

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