Category: Company

Charlie Newington-Bridges acts in a just and equitable winding up petition in the High Court

24th March 2022

In Duneau v Klimt Invest SA & Ors [2022] EWHC 596 (Ch), Charlie Newington -Bridges acted for the Respondent in the High Court trial of a just and equitable winding up petition relating to a French stock market listed technology company worth €9m. Daniel Lightman QC acted for the Petitioner. The 8-day trial was heard…

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Charlie Newington-Bridges and Natasha Dzameh appointed deputy heads of St John’s Commercial team

18th October 2021

We are pleased to announce that Charlie Newington-Bridges and Natasha Dzameh will be deputy heads of our Commercial team. Charlie is a well regarded barrister for his commercial and financial services expertise, which is supported by 15 years’ prior experience as an investment banker. He is also regularly instructed in cases concerning partnership law and…

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Charlie Newington-Bridges successful in the High Court acting for the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation in a s117 Companies Act claim

6th April 2021

Charlie Newington-Bridges was instructed by Willans LLP to act for the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (‘the Foundation’) in an application brought by the Foundation against one of its members who had made a request for a list of the names and addresses of the members of the Foundation under s116 of the Companies Act…

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St John’s Chambers recognised in 22 major areas of law in the Chambers UK 2021 Guide

23rd October 2020

We are delighted to announce that we have been hugely successful in this year’s Chambers UK Bar 2021 Guide. We have been recognised in a total of 22 major areas of law, with 1 of our barristers ranked as a star individual, 3 up and coming, 17 of our barristers ranked in Band 1 and…

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Legal 500 Rankings 2021

5th October 2020

We are delighted to announce that we have been ranked as top tier in 10 different areas of law and with 47 of our barristers ranked in 14 areas of law in the 2021 Legal 500 rankings. This means that St. John’s barristers have been ranked a staggering 82 times in 2021. We are also…

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Annual UWE Mooting Competition

27th November 2019

St John’s Chambers sponsored the University of West of England (UWE) 2019 Mooting Competition, and on Thursday, 21st November was the final of the three stage mooting competition at UWE, with the results being announced. The winner was Monica Young and the runner up, Ella White who have both received a mini pupillage experience at…

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Second edition of the St John’s Commercial team newsletter published today

21st November 2019

Welcome to the second edition of our new Commercial team newsletter, designed to bring you a selection of important and interesting updates in the world of commercial law. Each issue will feature four or five articles about interesting developments over the preceding months, together with a summary for those in a rush, and some useful…

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