Natasha Dzameh

Barrister & Mediator, St John's Chambers

Natasha is a specialist commercial and chancery barrister who is consistently ranked as a leading junior in Chambers UK and Legal 500. She has been described as someone who has “a good way with clients” as well as being “an assertive and tenacious advocate”, “very responsive, extremely thorough, pragmatic and easy to work with as part of the team”, “approachable” and “extremely intelligent, with an eye for practical and innovative solutions”.

Natasha is often instructed as sole counsel in high value, multifaceted litigation. She has experience of acting as junior to senior counsel on particularly complex matters and working in teams of counsel on large scale, high value, document-heavy government disputes. Her clients range from individuals to major financial institutions and international companies including high street brands.

Natasha’s main areas of expertise are:

Commercial disputes – agricultural, banking and financial (including mis-selling and guarantees), classic cars, construction, equine, hire, insurance, IT and NHS contracts, restoration of historic documents, yachts and superyachts etc.
Insolvency – corporate and personal (including partnerships and insolvent estates)
Professional Negligence
Property Damage and Real Estate
Wills, Trusts and Probate – especially will construction, constructive trust and proprietary estoppel claims, estate administration, removal of personal representatives and trustees, inheritance disputes, undue influence and will validity challenges.

Natasha is particularly well-placed to assist on matters involving an overlap between her specialisms and she especially enjoys dealing with injunctions.

Natasha is an accredited mediator and has also been published in the Trusts and Estates Law & Tax Journal several times.

Contributed to

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Administration of joint and separate estates

Practice notes

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Natasha, Dzameh, barrister and mediator of St John’s Chambers, looks at the priority of expenses and debts on the winding up (or liquidation) of a limited partnership, and in the separate estate wind-ups of the individual partners (ie what happens when estates of individual limited partners are wound up).

Restructuring & Insolvency

Insolvency of general partnerships—administration

Practice notes

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Natasha Dzameh, barrister & mediator of St John’s Chambers, sets out how general partnerships enter administration, including the circumstances in which a partnership may enter administration, what administration means for the partnership, how to enter administration (including forms to be used), the process for doing so and the role of the administrator.

Restructuring & Insolvency

Insolvency of general partnerships—priority of expenses and debts

Practice notes

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Natasha Dzame, barrister and mediator of St John’s Chambers, looks at the insolvency priority of expenses and debts on the insolvency of a general partnership. It provides an explanation of the general position and looks at the priority of expenses and debts (also known as waterfall of payments) for a general partnership.

Restructuring & Insolvency

Limited partnership insolvency

Practice notes

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Natasha Dzameh, retired barrister and mediator of St John’s Chambers, considers the position of partners in a limited partnership insolvency situation under the Limited Partnerships Act 1907 (LPA 1907). It looks at the position of the individual partners as contributories, as officers of the partnership and as partners.

Restructuring & Insolvency

Limited partnerships and insolvency—key principles

Practice notes

This Practice Note, produced in association with Natasha Dzameh, barrister and mediator of St John’s Chambers, looks at insolvent limited partnerships. It discusses how partners are treated when the limited partnership enters an insolvency process and how the limited partnership itself is treated in law. It covers limited partners and general partners, what rules apply to insolvencies, the dissolution of the limited partnership, the insolvency of the individual partners, and sets out some key points unique to limited partnerships. It also considers the new category of private fund limited partnerships (PFLPs).

Restructuring & Insolvency

Position of partnership members on insolvency

Practice notes

This Practice Note, produced in partnership with Natasha Dzameh, barrister & mediator of St John’s Chambers, sets out the position of partners when a general partnership becomes insolvent. It deals with various alternative scenarios where the partners themselves are bankrupt as well as the firm, or where only the firm itself is insolvent, or where an individual partner only is bankrupt. It discusses the partner’s liability in various differing situations.

Restructuring & Insolvency

Winding-up a general partnership as an unregistered company

Practice notes

This Practice Note, produced in association with Natasha Dzameh, barrister & mediator of St John’s Chambers, sets out how a general partnership may be wound up (or liquidated) as an unregistered company, including the circumstances in which the partnership may be wound up, what winding-up (or liquidation) means for the partnership and the individual partners (and whether it leads to bankruptcy), how to commence the winding-up (including forms to be used), the process for doing so and the role of the liquidator.

Restructuring & Insolvency