Patrick Maxwell

Commercial

Patrick provides advocacy, advice and drafting on a wide variety of commercial cases. Much of his work involves contractual disputes and he also has experience of company law, passing off and the economic torts.

Selected Cases

• Sole counsel in a $20m UNCITRAL arbitration concerning commodities finance arrangements in Africa.
• Acting as sole counsel in £6m commercial court dispute arising out of a hotel franchise agreement.
• Acting for the claimant contractor in a c.$100m HKIAC arbitration relating to a major infrastructure project in the Far East (with Andrew Rigney KC). The dispute involved complex issues of contractual interpretation as well as allegations of economic duress.
• Pursing a successful claim for a major London restaurant franchiser against a franchisee for various breaches of contract.
• Instructed (with Christopher Pymont KC) in proceedings under section 30(1)(f) of the 1954 Act concerning the interests of two major high-street banks.
• Acting in a high value claim concerning the negligent provision of tax advice to multiple parties in which there are allegations of fraudulent misrepresentation, bribery and breach of fiduciary duty (with Roger ter Haar KC).
• Acting for multiple claimants in claims arising for the sale of off plan properties in Cyprus. The claims involved allegations of misrepresentation and mortgage mis-selling alongside complex jurisdictional issues.

News

• Sky & Mace v Insurers: Court of Appeal judgment
• Sky & Mace v Riverstone Managing Agency & Ors [2023] EWHC 1207 (Comm)

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Events

• Crown Office Office Chambers and HKA Event – ‘The cost of Covid for construction: dealing with supply chain issues’

Qualifications

• BA Hons (First Class), University of Oxford
• GDL, City University
• BPTC, City University
• David Karmel Award, Grays Inn
• Holt Scholarship, Grays Inn
• Academic Scholarships, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford

Memberships

• SCL
• COMBAR
• PNBA