Nathan TWIBILL
Nathan has a broad commercial and financial litigation, civil fraud and arbitration practice in line with Chambers’ profile.
Notable cases with which Nathan assisted during pupillage include:
JP Morgan Securities Plc v VTB Bank PJSC [2025] EWHC 1368 (Comm) (appeal outstanding) – Obtaining permanent anti-suit relief in relation to VTB’s pursuit of claims against JPM entities in Russian courts in contravention of LCIA arbitration clauses in an ISDA Master Agreement and related investment services contracts.
Excalibur Almaz Limited v Horie (Isle of Man) – Defending claims of breach of fiduciary duty and deceit in relation to seed funding of $50 million by an individual Japanese investor in an Isle of Man resident space company.
Coupang Corp v DAZN Limited, 19 May 2025, Commercial Court (upheld by the Court of Appeal in DAZN Limited v Coupang Corp [2025] EWCA Civ 1083) – Obtaining a prohibitory injunction preventing breach of an informal contract for the licensing of South Korean broadcasting rights for the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 in an expedited trial in the Commercial Court.
Bilta (UK) Ltd (In Liquidation) v Tradition Financial Services Ltd [2025] 2 WLR 1015; [2025] UKSC 18 – a Supreme Court appeal concerning the ambit of the fraudulent trading provisions in s 213 of the Insolvency Act 1986.
Acting for the founders of an international e-commerce company in preparation of a claim seeking enforcement of a debt restructuring agreement under which the company’s assets were to be divided between the founders and the company’s primary investor.
Acting for a major UK energy company in relation to allegations of breach of written contracts and an alleged oral joint venture agreement with a Swiss entity.
Prior to coming to the Bar, Nathan worked on the Decentralised Autonomous Organisations Scoping Paper at the Law Commission, where he examined the applicability of organisational law to the management of DeFi platforms, and was also involved in the preparation of the Arbitration Act 2025. He previously qualified as a solicitor in Australia and worked at an international law firm in Sydney, at an economic policy think tank, and as a legal magazine opinion columnist.
Nathan holds degrees in law, economics and finance from the universities of Sydney and Oxford. He was a tutor in microeconomics at the University of Sydney and has a particular interest in cases which require the ability both to understand and to explain financial and economic concepts.
