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.
Partnerships & LLPs
Gideon has significant experience dealing with all aspects of litigation and arbitration concerning traditional partnerships, LLPs and disputes between shareholders. He also advises on non-contentious issues, such as drafting partnership agreements and dealings with share capital, including reductions of share premium accounts. He has particular experience in dealing with unfair prejudice petitions and derivative actions.
He recently acted for the defendant/respondent in a high value dispute involving partnership and parallel unfair prejudice proceedings concerning a large business operation that provided estate agency and wealth management services, which also included a substantial property portfolio (led by Philip Jones KC).
Reported Cases:
- Shah v Shah [2020] EWHC 1840 (Ch): acting for the claimant and First Part 20 Defendant in relation to a claim for breach of trust and wilful default about the trustees’ dealings with plots of land in India.
- Shah v Shah [2019] EWHC 535 (Ch): acting for the claimant and First Part 20 Defendant in relation to the defendants attempt to avoid liability for interest on a £1million loan.
- Shah v Shah [2019] EWHC 872 (Ch): acting for the claimant and First Part 20 Defendant in respect of a long-running partnership account, which included issues concerning the level of interest payable by one partner in relation to breaches of fiduciary duty.
- Brierley v Otuo [2018] 11 WLUK 135: Application for an unless order and costs. Shah v Shah [2018] EWHC 2075 (Ch), appeal concerning the admissibility of fresh evidence and the application of the Ladd v Marshal test.
- Muhammad v ARY Properties & Ors [2016] EWHC 1968 (Ch): Partnership and loan dispute.
- Popat v Khawaja [2016] EWCA Civ 362: Successfully opposing an appeal of a committal order.
- Otuo v Brierley [2016] EMLR 6: Defendant’s successful appeal in relation to a costs and debarring order.
- Popat v Khawaja [2015] EWHC 2481 (Ch): Partnership and shareholder dispute, obtaining a prohibitory injunction to restrain the owner of the business from dealing with the same and obtaining a mandatory injunction for the Petitioner to take over the business on an interim basis.
- Otuo v Brierley [2015] EWHC 1938 (Ch): Partnership dispute, dissolution agreement.
- Otuo v Brierley [2014] EWCA Civ 1804: Successfully opposing the Claimant’s application for permission to appeal.
- Otuo v Brierley [2014] Lexis Citation 27: Partnership dispute, 5-day hearing with live evidence for the Claimant to re-amend his pleading.
- Otuo v Brierley [2013] EWHC 2869: Partnership dispute, 3-day hearing with live evidence in relation to the Claimant’s material non-disclosure and discharge of a freezing injunction.
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.
