Julian Cahn
Partner - Head of Restructuring & Insolvency
Julian is a leading contentious insolvency lawyer with vast experience in domestic and international corporate and personal insolvency, and dispute resolution.
Partner - Head of Restructuring & Insolvency
Julian is a leading contentious insolvency lawyer with vast experience in domestic and international corporate and personal insolvency, and dispute resolution.
Languages - English
Julian's insolvency practice covers both corporate and personal domestic and cross-border insolvency. He acts for insolvency practitioners, creditors, debtors and all other stakeholders in the insolvency process, with a focus on court driven and contentious insolvency matters.
He has the highest individual rankings in Chambers & Partners 2026 for both Restructuring and Insolvency: Disputes; and for Personal Insolvency.
Julian sits on the technical committee of R3, the trade association for the insolvency and restructuring profession in the UK.
Julian also advises in relation to commercial disputes across a broad range of industries and sectors. This includes both domestic proceedings, as well as international and cross-border litigation strategies.
Acting for Liquidators and Administrators
Acting for corporate officeholders in relation to contentious matters. Notable mandates include acting for the liquidators of Rangers FC on a £100m+ unlawful means conspiracy claim; and for the liquidators of the PR firm Bell Pottinger on excess drawings claims against the former partners.
Acting for Court Appointed Receivers
Includes acting, in extensive litigation in the Turks & Caicos Islands, for Receivers appointed by Deutsche Bank following an application made by them as judgment creditor for US $235 million plus interest.
Acting for Trustees in Bankruptcy
Extensive personal insolvency experience including acting for the Trustees in Bankruptcy of tennis' Boris Becker; Georgy Trefilov (once Russia’s 79th richest man); and Pragnesh Modhwadia (head of the now defunct law firm Axiom Ince, accused of misappropriating £60m+ of client monies).
Cross-Border Insolvency
Experience of claims and office-holder recognition in multiple overseas jurisdictions. Examples include: Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories, post Brexit Europe, Asia, and intra-UK. A recent mandate involved obtaining recognition in all of the US, Switzerland and (establishing a first precedent) in Brazil.
Enforcement Work
Enforcement work for banks, hedge funds, other credit institutions, and high net worth individuals.
Defence work for Insolvency Practitioners
Recent mandates include striking out, in both the County and High Court, a £1billion claim brought against insolvency practitioners whilst also obtaining a Civil Restraint Order.
