John McGhee KC

Commercial disputes

John’s practice involves a wide range of heavy commercial disputes including litigation relating to commercial fraud, contested trusts, tracing and insolvency claims across different jurisdictions.

Notable recent cases include:

• Acting for a major bank in claims involving fraud and forgery in a challenge to its security by its customer (2024, continuing).
• Acting for a client seeking to rescind a high value contract on the grounds of fraudulent misrepresentation (2024, continuing).
• Acting for a major retailer in connection with a £2.5 billion sale agreement involving the termination of arrangements with a supplier which is alleged to have been in breach of the retailer’s duties of good faith (2024, continuing).
• Acting for a major company claiming damages for deceit from an introducer and defending a counterclaim by the introducer for breach of confidentiality (2024, continuing).
• Acting for administrators of a business claiming that transactions undertaking by the company involving the dispositions of parts of that business were at undervalue (2023).
• Acting for an ultra high-net-worth individual in proceedings in England, BVI and Cayman involving issues of commercial fraud, trusts and tracing (2023-24, continuing).
• Acting for a manager defending allegations of mismanagement and breach of duties of good faith (2023, continuing).
• Acting for a former partner in the business of sourcing and funding pension fund assets in a claim against the other partner for profit share and defending a counterclaim for breach of fiduciary and other duties of £110m (2022).
• Defending a gas authority in an arbitration in a £120m compensation claim (2020).
• Acting for a major utility provider in an arbitration in successfully resisting an arbitration claim by a supplier for a tenfold increase in price involving complex issues of regulation, economics and competition law (2020).

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