Gideon Roseman is a Commercial Chancery litigator. He advises in contentious and non-contentious partnership matters, representing both firms and LLPs as well as individual partners and members, including professional practices, such as solicitors, financial advisers and recruitment consultants and property developers. He has significant experience of high value and complex litigation in Court and arbitration. He is regularly instructed to attend mediations.
He has appeared as sole counsel in a number of successful appeals in the Court of Appeal in relation to both partnership and shareholder disputes.
He also specialises in commercial litigation, commercial fraud, insolvency, shareholders’ disputes, property litigation (domestic and international), professional negligence and wills and trust disputes.
He has particular expertise in relation to worldwide and domestic freezing orders, as well as other interlocutory prohibitory and mandatory injunctions.
He has acted in a number of committal applications, typically those arising out of breaches of freezing injunctions and ancillary disclosure orders, including appeals to the Court of Appeal.
Ranked in Band 1 in Partnership in Chambers UK 2024.
Ranked in Tier 2 in Partnership in Legal 500 2024.
Ranked in Band 4 in Commercial in Chambers UK 2024.
Arbitration, Mediation & ADR
Gideon has substantial experience acting on behalf of both firms and individuals in relation to all aspects of arbitral proceedings.
He is frequently instructed to deal with urgent/emergency pre-arbitration applications, i.e. freezing injunctions and the enforcement of restrictive covenants.
He was instructed by a corporate member of a traditional partnership who, following a successful arbitration, sought to place the partnership into administration; the administration application raised a plethora of novel issues in relation to the interrelationship between the Arbitration Act 1996, the Insolvency Act/Rules 1986 and the Partnership Act 1890 (Re Brake [2017] 1 WLR 343).
Reported Cases:
- B v J [2020] EWHC 1373 (Ch) (Chief ICC Judge Briggs (sitting as a High Court Judge): Acting for the claimants in an arbitration claim for the removal of an arbitrator identified in the arbitration agreement on the basis of apparent bias.
Recommendations
Qualifications
- Bar Vocational Course (Outstanding), BPP Law School
- LLM (First Class), Hughes Hall, Cambridge
- LLB (Hons), University of Bristol
- Inner Temple Prize for BVC performance [2007]
- Exhibitioner, Inner Temple [2005]
- Duke of Edinburgh Entrance Scholarship, Inner Temple [2005]
- M. Burnett Prize, Hughes Hall, Cambridge [2005]
- Highest First in Intellectual Property, University of Bristol [2004]
- Blackstone Press Prize, University of Bristol [2002]
Appointments
- Association of Partnership Practitioners (Sub-committee Member)
Associations & Memberships
- Association of Partnership Practitioners
- Chancery Bar Association
Publications
Speaking Engagements
Gideon has given talks to firms of solicitors and accountants (including Maurice Turnor Gardner, Fox Williams LLP, Addleshaw Goddard LLP and Smith and Williamson) on company, LLP and Partnership issues.
Gideon Roseman is a self-employed, independent barrister whose practice is governed by the Code of Conduct of the Bar of England and Wales. He is regulated by The Bar Standards Board [Bar Ref 53971] and is fully insured with the Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund [2360/067] to provide legal services, please refer to the BMIF website for full details of the world-wide cover provided. He is registered for VAT under the reference 984482375.
