Cheryl Jones is a member of the Property and Estates and Commercial teams. She specialises in real property and trusts, with a particular interest in constructive trusts and estoppel. Cheryl is also an insolvency specialist, dealing with both personal and corporate insolvencies and related issues. She also has a strong practice in probate matters and is known for taking on cases which have unusual or cross-border elements.

She is a qualified mediator and a member of the Bar Pro Bono Unit.

Cheryl sits as a Recorder in both Civil and Criminal and is also Deputy Insolvency and Companies Judge, sitting in the High Court.

Called to the Bar in 1996, after achieving a First Class degree from Lancaster University as a mature student, Cheryl undertook pupillage in a leading Insolvency Chambers in Lincolns Inn and brings life experience and common sense to all areas of her practice.

Seb Oram is a Commercial and Construction Law barrister. He is recommended counsel in Who’s Who Legal 2023, Chambers UK 2023 and Legal 500 2023.

Seb advises parties on resolving commercial disputes, particularly for clients in the construction and property sectors. He represents them in the Courts of England and Wales, and in international arbitrations. He is a member of the organising committee of the UK chapter of the Spanish and Latin American Arbitration Society (el Club Español e Iberoamericano del Arbitraje).

Andrew is a barrister and civil litigator specialising in fraud claims, investment scams, freezing injunctions and other injunctive relief, and contentious trusts. He has extensive experience of advising clients on sensitive disputes involving dishonesty allegations and his cases often involve a cross-border element.

Emily specialises in civil fraud matters and advises in relation to claims such as tax avoidance, complex property fraud and cryptocurrency fraud.  Her experience includes advising in relation to fraud claims both before the High Court and the LCIA and she has advised institutional clients before the First-Tier and Upper Tribunal (Tax).

Her expertise also covers asset protection, asset tracing and recovery and she has advised clients in cross-border matter involving other jurisdictions such as the BVI, Cyprus and the CIS market.

She has acted on a multijurisdictional recovery project to recover several hundred million dollars stolen from the UK Government using a rogue bank in the Dutch Caribbean which included enforcing judgments obtained in the UK against parties out of the jurisdiction who had conspired to defraud the UK Government.  Her recent experience includes coordinating and pursuing ancillary and enforcement actions to support foreign litigation on behalf of an overseas government in respect of high value and complex fraud claims arising out of the demise of a number of financial institutions. She has also advised in relation to the recovery of assets following the use of unlawful tax avoidance schemes involving employee benefit trusts and umbrella employment companies.

Emily also has significant experience in advising clients at the investigatory stage of matters, assisting clients to identify and prepare claims, identify and recover assets and preparing interim applications for the preservation of assets and documentation.