James Pickering Appointed Queen’s Counsel
Enterprise Chambers is delighted to announce that James Pickering has been appointed Queen’s Counsel in the 2019-2020 competition
James specialises in all areas of commercial litigation with a particular emphasis on commercial disputes, insolvency, and professional negligence.
Highlights include representing the administrator in the high profile A1 Grand Prix insolvency, the financiers behind a Hollywood movie, provisional liquidators in one of the first crypto-currency insolvencies, several well-known football clubs, the shareholders in a leading celebrity chef owned London restaurant, a lender in a professional liability claim arising out of Channel 4’s Brookside housing estate, and a defendant in a Liechtenstein trust fraud trial. As well as the above, James has appeared in numerous well known and reported cases and is highly regarded within the Chancery and Commercial Bar.
In February 2016 James was appointed as a Deputy Master of the High Court and in September 2018 he was appointed as a Deputy High Court Judge. In March 2019 he was elected as Head of Chambers.