Company and Commercial
“St John’s Buildings have a good range of counsel across the practice area. They have a good range of juniors and mid ranking senior juniors especially.” Legal 500 2023
The Company and Commercial Group are recognised particularly for their expertise in General Commercial law, Property, General Chancery law, Intellectual Property and Fraud. Members are highly regarded within their individual practice fields and regularly act for high profile large multinationals as well as small businesses and individuals alike. The group are sympathetic to clients who seek practical solutions to their problems and match their legal skills and experience to defined objectives.
Our Work
Contract disputes are an area of in depth expert knowledge, as well as defamation and insurance. Intellectual property services cover trademarks, patents, copyright and registered design. Partnership is another area and a wide range of professional negligence matters are handled skilfully by specialists in the field. Real property is a notable specialism and all aspects of sale and carriage of goods are dealt with. Advice is given on Trusts and Inheritance issues and Sports and Media law are also areas undertaken. Chambers also has several Bar Council accredited mediators, including David Berkley KC, all of whom have vast experience of mediating. Members of Chambers are also accustomed to representing parties in mediations and Chambers are able to accommodate mediation hearings where necessary.
Our Service
The approach of the group is flexible and business like with an emphasis on client partnership.
We take the service we deliver to the highest levels based on:
- Clear recognition of the client’s needs
- Matching comprehensive skills and experience
- Building effective relationships
Specialist knowledge includes:
- Contract
- Sale and carriage of goods
- Insurance/Re-insurance
- Agency
- Shareholder disputes
- Partnership
- Share and asset purchase agreements
- Directors’ duties and disqualification
- Corporate fraud
- Urgent injunctions
- Freezing injunctions/Search orders
- Professional negligence
- Sports law
- IP (Trademarks, Passing Off, Copyright
- Design rights/Registered designs)
- Defamation
- Data protection and privacy
- Breach of confidence
- Internet and domain name law
- Computer hardware/software

David Berkley KC
Year of Silk: 1999
Graeme Wood
Year of call: 1968
Nicholas Jackson
Year of call: 1992
Pépin Aslett
Head of CommercialYear of call: 1996
Khurram Karim
Year of call: 1997
Douglas Denton
Year of call: 1997
Ghazan Mahmood
Year of call: 1997
Clare Thomas
Year of call: 1998
Philip Byrne
Year of call: 1999
Simon Pallo
Year of call: 2003
Timothy Connolly
Year of call: 2004
Steven McGarry
Year of call: 2005
Gareth Thompson
Year of call: 2005
Daniel Metcalfe
Year of call: 2008
Jamie Jenkins
Year of call: 2008
David Baines
Year of call: 2009
Sebastian Gollins
Year of call: 2015
Alex Platts
Year of call: 2019
Adil Navaid
Year of call: 2021