Alexander Bryant

Alexander has a busy commercial practice, comprising:

• led work in high value and complex commercial disputes; and
• work as sole counsel in applications.

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.

Recent examples of cases include:

• Acting for the defendant director in a High Court, Chancery Division trial for a final injunction arising out of breaches of confidentiality (with Alexander Halban).
• Acting 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 (visas for high net worth individuals) purposes, of a £100 million investment scheme (with Rupert D’Cruz KC).
• Acting (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;
• Acting 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).
• Acting for a minority shareholder in a multi-million-pound unfair prejudice petition before the High Court (with James Bickford Smith).
• Acting (as sole counsel) for an international cloud computing and data services company in its applications forrelief from sanctions and strike out.
• Advising high-net-worth individuals in a prospective fraud

Alexander also has considerable experience of working as part of large counsel and solicitor teams in high value, multi-party, international disputes. He was recently instructed to assist in a disclosure exercise arising out a multi-billion-dollar international crypto dispute. Additionally, and prior to joining Chambers, Alexander gained a reputation as a disclosure-whizz at a boutique commercial litigation firm where he participated and subsequently led teams on high-value international commercial disputes.

Alexander acts for both claimants and respondents on employment law matters. He has experience of acting as sole and junior counsel before the Employment Tribunal and the EAT.

Highlights include:

• Acting for an ex-senior executive of a FTSE 100 company in an appeal to the EAT (with Lydia Banerjee).
• Acting for a defendant director in a High Court trial for breaches of confidentiality, which involved questions as to the impact of the Whistleblowing legislation on contractual confidentiality provisions (with Alexander Halban).
• Acting (as sole counsel) for a respondent in a complex (due to the contractual framework between the directors) unlawful deduction of wages
• Acting (as sole counsel) for a respondent in a complex stay application.
• Acting, at trial, for an international investment boutique in the defence of a financial services whistleblowing claim brought by a director (with Lydia Banerjee).
• Successfully representing a respondent car manufacturer in claims of disability discrimination.
• Appearing in the Employment Tribunal for the successful claimant on a contested preliminary issue, namely to determine worker status.
• Appearing in the Employment Tribunal for a successful respondent, a household-name retailer, to determine jurisdiction.

Alexander has acted in and assisted with a number of sports matters including:

• Acting as sole counsel in appeals against disciplinary decisions of British Gymnastics.
• Advising on the appeal to a sporting governing body of a selection decision for a national team.
• Investigating misconduct allegations against directors of a football institution (with Grahame Anderson).
• Assisting in an investigation into an international sports governing body (with Lydia Banerjee).
• Assisting in the provision of advice to a major sports institution (with John Mehrzad KC of Fountain Court).
• Assisting on several football disciplinary matters (with Lydia Banerjee).
• Drafting points of claim in a Rule K FA arbitration.

Alexander is a member of the SCMP Legal Advice Service.

Alexander has a keen interest in sport. He has played competitive cricket, rugby, and hockey. He still plays cricket regularly and helps a number of local clubs in an administrative capacity.

Alexander has experience, acting on his own or as part of a larger counsel team, of complex and lengthy investigations. His experience includes:

• Conducting grievance investigations for a big-four accountancy firm.
• Assisting with a sexual harassment investigation in the financial services sector (with Carol Davis KC).
• Assisting with a race discrimination investigation in the information and technology sector (with Niran de Silva KC).
• Investigating misconduct allegations against directors of a football institution (with Grahame Anderson).
• Assisting in an investigation into an international sports governing body (with Lydia Banerjee).

2019:   Called to the Bar, Inner Temple

2018 – 2019:   Bar Professional Training Course (The University of Law, London)

2017 – 2018:   Graduate Diploma in Law (BPP, London)

2014 – 2017:   History Bachelor of Arts with Honours (University of York)

• Award for Outstanding Achievement in Civil Advocacy – highest BPTC mark (Sept. 2019)
• Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opinion Writing – highest BPTC mark (Sept. 2019)
• Scholarship from the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple for the BPTC (Mar. 2018)
• Scholarship from the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple for the GDL (Jul. 2017)
• Pegasus Access and Support Scheme Scholarship (Dec. 2017)