Matthew Parfitt
Matthew is an advocate, litigator and adviser who specialises in company and insolvency law.
In 2020 he was appointed to the Attorney General’s A Panel to act in the most complex and significant government litigation. He spent ten years on the B and C Panels which allowed him to develop substantial unled advocacy experience.
He is ranked in Chambers & Partners and in the Legal 500 as a leading junior for company law and, in the Legal 500, for insolvency. The directories say he is a “clever, accommodating and client-friendly junior counsel”; “he is quietly persuasive and his advocacy is faultless”; and he has “a cool head, a comprehensive knowledge of his field and an excellent responsiveness to pressurised demands”.
He was appointed as a Deputy Insolvency and Companies Court Judge in 2020.
Recent important cases include:
- Re Akkurate Ltd [2020] EWHC 1433 (Ch) (the leading case on the extra-territorial effect of section 236 of the Insolvency Act 1986)
- Re Columbus Energy Resources plc [2020] EWHC 2452 (Ch) (establishing for the first time the effect of the CIGA 2020 on court meetings in the context of a scheme of arrangement, leading Philip Morrison)
- Burnden Holdings (UK) Ltd v Fielding [2019] EWHC 1566 (Ch) (the leading case on the liability of directors for unlawful dividends); [2019] EWHC 2995 Ch (successful non-party costs application against an insolvency practitioner’s firm); [2018] UKSC 14 (Supreme Court – limitation period for claims against directors)