Call: 2007
"A real streetfighter. You want him in your corner on difficult, complicated cases."
Legal 500 2025
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.
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.
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).
Gideon has significant experience in dealing with section 994 disputes both in relation to LLPs and companies.
Gideon has particular experience in advising and acting for companies and individuals in disputes concerning misappropriation of monies and assets.
Gideon has experience of dealing with insolvency disputes in relation to both corporate and personal insolvency.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Gideon has significant experience in this area.
Gideon has significant experience in this area.
Gideon has experience of dealing with a wide variety of disputes involving land, both domestically and internationally. He is frequently instructed to provide advice and appear in court in all areas of residential and commercial property.
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).
Gideon has experience in dealing with all aspects of litigation involving estates and trusts and claims made under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975.
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