Alexander has a busy commercial practice. Whilst he has acted in a broad range of matters, he has gained particular experience in company, shareholder, and director disputes as well as in disputes with an international dimension.
Examples of his cases include:
- Acting as sole counsel for an executive of a bank concerning the non-payment of multi-million-pound contractual bonuses.
- Acting for a minority shareholder in a multi-million-pound unfair prejudice petition before the High Court (with James Bickford Smith) and related proceedings before the County Court.
- Acting as junior counsel to David Alexander KC (South Square) in a claim valued at circa $500 million concerning director’s duties, fiduciary duties and shareholder status before the Commercial Division of the BVI High Court.
- Acting as junior counsel in an appeal before the Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court concerning the compilation of the register of members of a company in liquidation.
- Acted as sole counsel for an international construction company in a contractual dispute arising from the sale of a Bulgarian bank.
- Acting as junior counsel to Charles Samek KC before the Commercial Division of the BVI High Court in a dispute about the beneficial ownership of shares in a BVI company and a multi-million-pound property in London.
- Acting as junior counsel in a stay application before the Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. The BVI proceedings were closely related to liquidation proceedings before the Courts of the Cayman Islands.
- Acting as junior counsel to James Bickford Smith in an appeal before the Court of First Instance of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) concerning (1) the correct jurisdiction for the determination of restrictive covenant disputes in the DIFC and (2) the requirements for a lawful judgment.
- Acting as sole counsel for a residential care company in a dispute concerning breaches of contract and breaches of director’s and fiduciary duties.
- As sole counsel, obtained injunctions and related relief in a director and shareholder dispute before the Commercial Division of the BVI High Court.
- Acted for a CEO of an investment company in a dispute over his status in and contractual entitlement to a payment under a long-term incentive plan.
- Acted for the defendant director in a High Court, Chancery Division trial for a final injunction arising out of breaches of confidentiality (with Alexander Halban).
- Acted for directors of a demolition company in their defence of a High Court claim for breaches of contract, director and fiduciary duties claim (with James Bickford-Smith).
- Acted for the Respondents in the Supreme Court in Secretary of State for the Home Department v Wang [UKSC 2021/0125]. The appeal concerned the validity, for Tier 1 Investor visa purposes (visas for high net worth individuals), of a £100 million investment scheme (with Rupert D’Cruz KC).
- Appeared as sole counsel for a company in its application before the Commercial Division of the BVI High Court to convene a meeting of creditors to approve a scheme of arrangement.
- As junior counsel to Daniel Burkitt (Ogier), obtained a stay of proceedings from the BVI High Court of a BVI breach of trust claim in favour of concurrent and similar proceedings before the High Court of Hong Kong.
- Assisted with the litigation of a multi-billion-dollar international crypto dispute.
- Acted for an ex-senior executive of a FTSE 100 company in an appeal to the EAT (with Lydia Banerjee) and assisting with the appeal to the Court of Appeal concerning the scope of the law of agency.
- Acted as sole counsel for and advising a wealth management company in a directors dispute, with proceedings before both the High Court and the Employment Tribunal;
- Acted (as sole counsel) for an international cloud computing and data services company in its applications for relief from sanctions and strike out.
- Advised high-net-worth individuals in a prospective fraud dispute.
- Acted as sole counsel in a short appointment hearing before the Commercial Division of the BVI High Court.