TL4 x Gatehouse Chambers & Byfield: Sweet Dreams my FTX

Gus is founder of Byfield Consultancy. He provides reputation counsel to legal and professional services firms and to companies and individuals facing reputational risk. Gus is relied upon by clients to help build and protect their reputations through effective brand building campaigns, and to manage reputational risk in sensitive and often business critical situations. He is a litigation PR specialist and works closely with litigators, in-house PR teams and senior management teams in managing the reputational aspects of disputes. Gus has significant experience of working with third party litigation funders and represents clients across a broad range of disputes nationally and internationally, including class actions where he has a particular interest. Gus is also well known for advising professional services firms and their partners who are subject to regulatory investigations.

Gus is founding chairman of the PRCA Legal PR group and is passionate about the development of legal sector communications as a valuable and specialist branch of public relations.

Oliver is an experienced commercial barrister who specialises in insolvency, civil fraud and asset recovery, and cases relating to companies, joint ventures and trusts. He is recommended for Insolvency in The Legal 500.

Oliver has particular expertise in cases involving allegations of wrongdoing and dishonesty by directors, trustees and other fiduciaries as well as high value, international shareholder disputes.

Oliver is a formidable advocate who appears regularly in the High Court and the Court of Appeal, both on his own account and as part of large legal teams. He has recently appeared as a junior in two complex commercial appeals in the Court of Appeal: LA Micro [2023] EWCA Civ 214 and Floreat [2023] EWCA Civ 440. He prides himself on providing clear, practical and commercial advice.

Oliver was appointed as a member of the Insolvency Rules Committee in October 2022 and has recently been involved in reviewing new special administration rules for the nuclear sector.

Michael is Joint Managing Director of Byfield. He is responsible for helping clients with their most sensitive special situations and strategic communications, as well as thought leadership programmes and litigation PR matters.

Pippa Hyde’s practice focuses on multinational investigations, representing individuals and companies in white collar criminal defense and civil and regulatory investigations. Her experience includes advising clients on allegations of corrupt practices, financial fraud, violations of economic sanctions and insider trading.

Henry Farris is a partner in the litigation and arbitration team at Withersworldwide.

He has a broad commercial litigation practice, working on complex disputes in the financial services, banking and corporate sectors, often with an international or multi-jurisdictional element.

He has particular expertise in (i) disputes arising out of the private equity and investment fund sectors; (ii) brokerage and capital markets disputes (iii) disputes relating to banking services and (iv) shareholder and company claims.  He also has significant recent experience advising on disputes relating to cryptoassets and digital payment services.

Geoff Carton-Kelly is a partner and Licensed Insolvency Practitioner at FRP  in London. He has more than 35 years’ experience, and has been taking appointments since 1998. More recently his primary focus has been on contentious insolvency, international recovery projects, real estate, and charities. He advises boards and stakeholders, claimants, and government agencies on a range of asset tracing and recovery solutions including issuing proceedings against third parties in multiple jurisdictions.