Zachary Kell
Zachary is a specialist Commercial Chancery barrister with expertise in Arbitration, Commercial Law, Civil Fraud, Insolvency & Restructuring, Company Law and Shareholders Disputes. He has experience in high value and complex litigation and has appeared in the Lawyer Top 20 Cases for 2024.
Zachary is ranked in the 2025 edition of the Legal 500 for banking and finance (tier 3) and civil fraud (tier 4). He has been called a “brilliant junior”, praised for being “hardworking and easy to approach” and “exactly the sort of modern barrister that you would like on your team”.
Zachary regularly appears in the High Court, often acting in disputes in the Commercial Court, and the Chancery Division (Insolvency & Companies List, and Business List). He also has extensive experience of appeals in the High Court and the Court of Appeal. Recent cases include: (i) the c.£1.4billion Eclipse litigation (10 week trial, Lawyer Top 20 Case of 2024) reported at [2024] EWHC 849 (Comm); and (ii) acting for the Deposit Guarantee Fund of Ukraine in a claim arising out of the liquidation of JSC Fortuna-Bank for c.£65 million (due to be heard in the Business List in 2025 for 3 weeks).
Zachary has developed a practice which often involves cross-border litigation and has been instructed both as sole counsel and as part of an international legal team in disputes relating to the law of the UAE, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Morocco, France, Italy, Spain, Ukraine and the CIS. He also consults to a Tier 1 firm of advocates in the Isle of Man.