Gideon Roseman

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.

Commercial & Business Disputes

Shareholders’ Disputes / Unfair Prejudice Petitioners

Gideon has significant experience in dealing with section 994 disputes both in relation to LLPs and companies.

Reported Cases:

• Suzui v Suzui [2024] EWHC 457 (Ch): Acting for a 50% shareholder/director of numerous companies that operate Japanese restaurants in London to obtain financial documents pursuant to a director’s common law.
• Re Dermamed Solutions Ltd [2023] All ER (D) 78 (Oct): Acting for the successful applicant in an unfair prejudice petition in an application to obtain an injunction to prevent the respondent opening up bank accounts, for monies to be paid into a specified bank account and for ongoing disclosure to enable the policing of a freezing order.
• Humphrey v Bennett [2023] All ER (D) 03 (Dec): Acting for the Claimants in high value derivative claim in a high value and complex joint venture property dispute in an appeal from a summary judgment application.
• Re Priestley Homes (Bradford) Limited [2019] 7 WLUK 406 (George Bompas QC sitting as a Deputy Judge. Acting for the Claimant in respect of dispute concerning a £15million joint venture which was being carried out through an SPV.
• Eaton v Caulfield [2014] BCC 654: Unfair Prejudice Petition, Summary Judgment, Section 996 relief.

Commercial Fraud

Gideon has particular experience in advising and acting for companies and individuals in disputes concerning misappropriation of monies and assets.

Reported Cases:

• Domestic & General Group Ltd v Premier Protect Holdings Ltd [2021] EWHC 135 (QB): Acting for two of the defendants in respect of a dispute involving allegations of a conspiracy by unlawful means, causing loss by unlawful means and in respect of an application for a prohibitory injunction.
• Central Europe Business Development Ltd v Mena Ventures Limited and ors [2016] EWHC 3138 (Ch)

• Central Europe Business Development Ltd v Mena Ventures Limited and ors [2016] EWHC 2480 (Ch)
• Allied Irish Banks Plc v Nolan & Ors [2016]: Acting for the main defendants in relation to £9million claim pursuant to section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986).
• Deep Purple (Overseas) Limited & Ors v Rao & Ors [2015] Chancery Division: Acting for the companies which own intellectual property in rock group, Deep Purple, in a £4million claim against their former director
• Central Europe Business Development Limited v MENA Ventures Limited & Ors [2015] Chancery Division: Acting for the Claimant in a claim against 4 defendants involving an advance fee fraud and a claim against Clyde & Co LLP in relation to their position as escrow agents. Successfully managed to strike out the entirety of the 4 defendants’ 40-page defence.
• Bari & Ors v Alternative Finance Limited [2014] Lexis Citation 93: Acting for the Defendant director in relation to a claim concerning an Islamic investment scheme

Insolvency

Gideon has experience of dealing with insolvency disputes in relation to both corporate and personal insolvency.

Reported Cases:

• Re Brake and others (trading as Stay in Style), Patley Wood Farm LLP v B rake [2017] 1 WLR 343
• Re Stay in Style (A Firm) [2016] EWHC 1688 (Ch): Partnership administration application.
• Re Stay in Style (A Firm) [2015] EWHC 1041 (Ch): Section 9 Arbitration Act 1996 application and application for Court appointed Administrator and Receiver.

• Invokon Limited & Ors v Riley & Ors: Acting for 6 respondents in a claim brought the liquidators of two companies in relation to a failed tax avoidance scheme. The claims have been brought on the basis of fraudulent trading, transactions to defraud creditors and transactions at an undervalue.
• Patley Wood (Farm) LLP v Brake & Brake: Acting for the LLP in its successful opposition to an application to set aside a statutory demand and the debtors entering into an IVA. Successfully obtained a bankruptcy order against both debtors after a full-days hearing, with live-evidence. Advising the LLP on all aspects of the winding up process of an insolvent partnership, the application of the Insolvent Partnerships Order 1994 and the interrelationship of the personal insolvency of the debtor partners and the winding up of the partnership.

• Otuo v Brierley [2016]: Successful application for a prohibitory injunction to prevent the Claimant from bankrupting himself.

Interlocutory Applications

Gideon has a vast amount of experience in obtaining and resisting applications for interlocutory relief, principally in the Chancery Division.

He has particular experience in dealing with applications for freezing and proprietary injunctions in complex high value multi-party litigation. He also has a wealth of experience in dealing with pre-action applications in disputes involving arbitration clauses and associated issues concerning section 44(3) of the Arbitration Act 1996.

Recent Cases:

• State Bank of India v Qatar National Bank [2019] 7 WLUK 369, acting for the trustees in relation to the enforcement of a claim worth £1.24billion.
• Acting for a large firm of solicitors in a claim for prohibitory and mandatory injunctions against a former partner for the deliver up of client files and the enforcement of non-compete and non-solicitation restrictive covenants.
• Obtaining a £4million worldwide freezing and proprietary injunction against a director of 3 companies, his wife and another associated company.
• Obtaining a £400,000 freezing injunction against a director and two associated companies notwithstanding the applicants’ years’ delay.
• Obtaining a mandatory injunction to force a landlord of a commercial property to deliver up possession of the property. Contempt of Court and Committal Applications.

Contempt of Court and Committal Applications

Gideon has expertise in relation to applications to commit people to prison for contempt of court, both at first instance and in the Court of Appeal, which compliments his expertise in obtaining interlocutory relief and ensures that the defendant or respondent in question is, effectively, forced to comply with court orders.

Reported Cases:

• Khawaja v Stefanova [2023] EWCA Civ 1201: Acting for the successful respondent in an appeal to the Court of Appeal in relation to an appeal by the contemnor against sentence arising from breaches of freezing and disclosure orders both in unfair prejudice proceedings in the High Court and related proceedings in the County Court.
• Kimyani v Sandhu [2017] EWHC 1302 (Ch): Acting for the successful application in a 3-day committal trial that resulted in the respondent being sentenced to an immediate custodial sentence of 2 years.
• Amarfio v Abrahams [2018] EWHC 391 (Ch): Acting for the successful applicant in a committal application resulting from the respondent’s breaches of a freezing injunction.
• Khawaja v Popat [2016] EWCA Civ 362: Acting for the successful respondent to an appeal from a committal order in a dispute arising out of the appellant’s breaches of a series of freezing orders.

Business Protection Law

Gideon has a specialist background in interim injunctive relief and is frequently instructed to act for businesses and individuals alike to obtain interim injunctions enforcing restrictive covenants or for springboard relief.

Reported Cases:

• Create Financial Management LLP v Lee and Scott [2020] EWHC 1933 (QB) (Morris J): Acting for the defendants in respect of a claim for breach of contract and an application for a springboard injunction.
• Create Financial Management LLP v Lee and Scott [2020] EWHC 2046 (QB) (Morris J): Successfully applying to vary a springboard injunction that prohibited the defendants from soliciting clients on the basis that the claimant had to inform all clients they were free to move to the defendants’ new business – Article on Lexis

Professional Negligence

Gideon has a great deal of experience in the field of professional liability. He is currently instructed in numerous disputes in the High Court concerning fractional sales schemes (led by David Halpern KC).

Recent Cases:

• Property Protea Holdings Ltd v 119 Molyneux Road Ltd [2020] EWHC 1322 (Ch) (Mark Anderson QC sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge): Acting for the claimant in a long-running property fraud transaction, which involved substantial breaches of duties on the part of the claimant’s former solicitors.

Commercial Litigation

Gideon has significant experience in this area.

Reported Cases:

• Heathfield International LLC v Axiom Stone (London) Ltd [2021] Costs LR 819: Acting for the appellant in an appeal arising out of a refusal to grant security for costs.
• Park v Hadi [2020] EWHC 2687 (QB) (Freedman J): Acting for the defendants in respect of a claim involving a share purchase agreement. The judgment concerns a summary judgment application.
• Park v Hadi [2020] EWHC 2612 (QB) (Freeman J): Issue concerning whether permission should be granted under the Legal Services Act 2005 to a layperson/McKenzie friend for him to act for the claimant.

Banking and Financial Services

Gideon has significant experience in this area.

Reported Cases:

• Ipsum Capital Ltd v RSL and others [2020] EWHC 3508 (Comm) (Calver J): Acting for the defendants in a claim involving the enforcement of personal guarantees. The judgment concerns an application for relief from sanctions arising out of the late filing of a defence.