Peter Shaw, KC
Peter Shaw was formerly a solicitor admitted in 1986, before being called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1995.
He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2017.
Both as a solicitor and at the Bar, he has had extensive experience in acting in corporate and personal insolvency, banking litigation, mortgage enforcement and company and commercial litigation.
He has particular expertise in (1) high value insolvency litigation and (2) commercial litigation, usually fraud related; (3) shareholder disputes. He has regularly applied for, and obtained freezing orders in cases of substance and complexity. He is a busy practitioner, heavily in demand.
In addition to his many reported cases his very recent case experience significantly includes;
- Substantial auditors negligence claim brought by liquidator of a company arising out of treatment of employee benefit trust payments
- Defending administrators in respect of substantial misfeasance claims brought to liquidators in respect of alleged failure to notify insurers of £15m claim
- Litigation arising out of fraudulent share sale agreement
- Defending directors against claims for unlawful share purchase at time of substantial tax claims against company
- Successful defence of directors in company directors disqualification trial
- Third party costs orders
- partnership disputes
Before taking silk he was for many years a highly ranked junior in both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners.
In Chambers (2016 ed) he was described as 'an excellent advocate, has tremendous patience with clients and is thorough in his analysis.'
In Legal 500 (2016 ed) he was described as 'realistic, takes the right points in court and doesn't waste time. Very user-friendly and able to think outside the box'.