Julian Cahn
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Restructuring/Insolvency: Personal Insolvency
Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency and Sport
Julian Cahn Partner
Julian is an insolvency and dispute resolution specialist, with extensive experience of proceedings across a broad range of industries and sectors.
Julian's insolvency practice covers both corporate and personal insolvency. He acts for insolvency practitioners, creditors, debtors and all other stakeholders in the insolvency process. Julian's particular focus is on court driven and contentious insolvency matters, including Insolvency Act applications; Court appointed receiverships; full-blown litigation; and other forms of dispute resolution.
He is part of Stephenson Harwood's Chambers-ranked Tier 1 personal insolvency practice, which revolves around insolvent individuals with multi-million pound debts and global assets.
He sits on the technical committee of R3, the trade association for the insolvency and restructuring profession in the UK.
Julian also advises in relation to commercial disputes across a broad range of industries and sectors. This includes both domestic proceedings, as well as international and cross-border litigation strategies and managing and co-ordinating litigation in different jurisdictions.
Julian has been ranked by the legal directories for both insolvency and sports law. Recent career highlights include advising the Liquidators of Rangers Football Club; and the Trustees in Bankruptcy of Boris Becker.
"Julian is excellent. He understands the issues immediately, formulates the appropriate strategy and gets results." "He is an absolutely superb practitioner."
Chambers UK 2021
Finance litigation
Professional and management liability
Julian's practice covers both corporate and personal insolvency. He acts for insolvency practitioners, creditors, debtors, directors and all other stakeholders. His particular focus is court driven and contentious matters, including Insolvency Act applications, full-blown litigation and other forms of dispute resolution.
Recent experience includes:
Acting for the Liquidators of Rangers Football Club on all aspects of the litigation in both England and Scotland including multi-million pound claims in unlawful means conspiracy.
Dawnay Day
Acting for the liquidators of various companies connected with the collapsed Dawnay Day conglomerate.
MK Airlines
Advising the liquidators on various issues arising out of a failed freight airline company
Advising the former administrators and CVA supervisors following the decision in Mourant Trustees v Hollis
Various complex personal insolvencies involving recalcitrant individuals with multi-million pound debts and disputed assets in various jurisdictions.
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Julian has advised clients in relation to complex high- value and profile commercial disputes across a broad range of industries and sectors, including:
Covering both corporate and personal matters, Julian acts for all stakeholders in the insolvency process. His particular focus is court driven and contentious matters, including Insolvency Act applications and full-blown litigation/dispute resolution.
Fraud and asset recovery
Much of Julian's work for insolvency practitioners involves tracing the proceeds of fraud that has caused corporate or personal insolvency.
Investment banking litigation
Acted for various large investment banks and funds on a range of complex and high-value litigation relating to a range of financial products.
Retail banking litigation
For example, advising on various disputes arising out of Consumer Credit Act lending; and the miss-selling of financial products to unsophisticated consumers.
Julian's professional indemnity experience includes acting for and against accountants (including auditors, tax advisors and insolvency practitioners) and solicitors, in relation to matters relating to their professional performance and conduct.
Recent experience of litigation arising out Employment-Financed Retirement Benefit Schemes (EFRBS) and Employee Benefit Trusts (EBTs) set up for football players, sometimes with a divorce/family element.
More: Commercial litigation
For example, advising on: various disputes arising out of Consumer Credit Act lending; and the miss-selling of financial products to unsophisticated consumers.
Julian regularly advises, as creditors, financial institutions on how to recover their debts from recalcitrant, financially distressed or insolvent counterparties.
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Defending and asserting claims against officeholders (over both corporate and personal insolvent estates) that arise out of the performance of their statutory functions.
Acted for and against accountants, including auditors, tax advisors, in relation to matters relating to their professional performance and conduct.
Experience of claims involving the professional performance and conduct of solicitors.
More: Professional and management liability
Julian has advised clients in relation to complex high- value and profile commercial disputes across a broad range of industries and sectors, many of which have been resolved through mediation or other forms of dispute resolution. Examples include:
Investment banking dispute resolution
Retail banking dispute resolution
Recent cases relate to litigation arising out Employment-Financed Retirement Benefit Schemes (EFRBS) and Employee Benefit Trusts (EBTs) set up for football players, sometimes with a divorce/family element.
More: Dispute resolution
As a contentious insolvency and general dispute resolution specialist Julian acts for accountants and accountancy firms on a daily basis - in relation to both a full range of insolvency matters; as well as professional indemnity and risk issues where large sums of money and professional reputations are at stake.
Insolvency Practitioners – insolvency work
Advises officeholders on all aspects of corporate and personal insolvency matters. His particular focus is court driven and contentious matters, including full-blown litigation, Insolvency Act applications, and other forms of dispute resolution. His recent corporate insolvency experience includes acting for the liquidators of Rangers Football Club and acting for the liquidators of various companies connected with the collapsed Dawnay Day conglomerate; whilst his recent personal insolvency experience includes acting for the Trustees in Bankruptcy of the ex-oligarch Georgy Trefilov, once Russia's 78th richest man.
Insolvency Practitioners – professional indemnity
Advising an international firm of accountants on protecting confidential information following a fee-earner's transfer to another firm; advising in relation to a claim brought against ex office-holders of a significant insolvent estate; advising an ex CVA Supervisor and Administrator following a successful challenge to the CVA that resulted in the officeholder become embroiled in regulatory disciplinary proceedings (Miss Sixty); advising a Trustee in Bankruptcy in relation to personal claims brought by the bankrupt; and making a claim in professional negligence against the former solicitors of an office-holder for their failure to implement a successful exit strategy from doomed litigation.
Experience includes numerous claims in professional negligence, for example asserting a claim against an international accountancy practice for their failure to spot that dividends had been paid up to a holding company in breach of Companies Act provisions; and defending a Big 4 firm of accountants against claims for negligent tax advice. Julian also regularly advises accountancy firms on the receiving end of information gathering applications made under Insolvency Act 1986.
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Advises administrators, administrative receivers, liquidators and trustees in bankruptcy on all legal aspects connected with their appointment. His particular focus is court driven and contentious matters, including Insolvency Act applications and full-blown litigation.
Acted for and against accountants, including auditors and tax advisors in relation to matters relating to their professional performance and conduct.
More: Professional services
Advising on various disputes arising out of Consumer Credit Act lending and the miss-selling of financial products to unsophisticated consumers.
Julian regularly advises creditors and financial institutions on how to recover their debts from recalcitrant, financially distressed or insolvent counterparties.
More: Banks and banking
Acting for the Liquidators of Rangers Football Club on all aspects of the liquidation in both England and Scotland, including in relation to high- value and profile claims in unlawful means conspiracy.
Sporting remuneration
Acting in relation to litigation arising out Employment-Financed Retirement Benefit Schemes (EFRBS) and Employee Benefit Trusts (EBTs) set up for football players.
Caterham/Formula 1
Acting in relation to the insolvency of the Caterham Formula One motor racing team.
More: Sport
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