Alastair Ahamed
Call: 2024
Alastair accepts instructions in Chambers’ core practice areas, including company law, commercial litigation, offshore litigation, and restructuring and insolvency.
On obtaining tenancy, Alastair undertook secondments to the Insolvency and Dispute Resolution team in the London office of Walkers, and then to the Commercial Litigation department at Stewarts.
Whilst at Walkers, Alastair advised and assisted on a range of Cayman, BVI, and Bermuda contentious and non-contentious matters, including advice and assistance in connection with: a just and equitable winding up petition in respect of a Cayman exempted limited partnership, resisting a Bermuda members’ scheme of arrangement, applications to restore companies to the BVI Registry of Corporate Affairs, the conduct of Cayman and BVI liquidations, and commercial litigation (including a Norwich Pharmacal application in the BVI, and drafting a defence to a Cayman conspiracy claim).
Whilst at Stewarts, Alastair advised and assisted on corporate and commercial contentious matters, including an ongoing dispute in the High Court (London Circuit Commercial Court) relating to deferred consideration for shares on which he continues to be instructed (led by Matthew Parker KC at 3VB). Other relevant experience included advising on the merits of potential unfair prejudice petitions, assistance in respect of a mediation of a contractual dispute, and assisting with advice on directors’ duties and remedies for breach of directors’ duties.
During pupillage, Alastair assisted members of chambers at all levels and gained experience in corporate advice and disputes, contentious and non-contentious restructuring and insolvency, commercial litigation, and offshore advice and litigation.
Alastair is a qualified solicitor, having trained at Weil, Gotshal & Manges (qualifying in 2022), sitting in Restructuring, Private Equity, Tax, and Structured Finance. Prior to pupillage, Alastair spent a year as a stipendiary lecturer in Contract Law and Trusts Law at Somerville College, University of Oxford, and he teaches Company Law tutorials at Oxford.
Alastair obtained a Distinction, and the prize for best performance in Corporate Finance Law, on the Bachelor of Civil Law at Oxford, where he also obtained a First-class undergraduate degree in Jurisprudence (BA) and the prize for best performance in Company Law.
