Tristan is a partner in the Restructuring and Insolvency team specialising in both contentious and non-contentious insolvency situations.
His contentious work often involves fraud and complex cross-border disputes, while his non-contentious practice includes advising on restructurings and assisting with multi-layered transactions.
Alongside a strong track record of achieving positive results for his UK-based clients, Tristan often advises offshore insolvency practitioners on securing recognition of their appointments in England & Wales. This work unlocks the ability to investigate wrongdoing and pursue litigation here, and has led to successful settlements and court victories, including a recent win in the UK Supreme Court.
Tristan has acted for insolvency practitioners, lenders, investors, private equity firms, pension schemes, trustees, directors and corporate clients in navigating complex financial and legal challenges.
Tristan joined Kingsley Napley in 2025 from Clyde & Co.
Recent work
Contentious
- Acting for the successful BVI liquidators in proceedings against Sheikh Mohamed bin Issa al Jaber, where the issues to be determined by the UK Supreme Court included (i) the liability of an intermeddler as a fiduciary and (ii) the measure of equitable compensation where misappropriated assets have lost their value by the date of trial:
- Mitchell & Another v Al Jaber and Another [2025] UKSC 43
- Mitchell & Another -v- Al Jaber and Another [2024] EWCA Civ 423
- Mitchell & Krys v Al Jaber & Others [2023] EWHC 364 (Ch)
- Acting for the same liquidators in the Court of Appeal on a discrete issue regarding witness immunity in s236 proceedings:
- Al Jaber & Others v Mitchell and Another [2021] EWCA Civ 1190
- Acting for the provisional liquidators of a solvent Cayman fund, seeking recognition in this jurisdiction under the CBIR
- Re Sturgeon Central Asia Balanced Fund Ltd (In Liquidation) [2020] EWHC 123 (Ch)
- Re Sturgeon Central Asia Balanced Fund Ltd (In Liquidation) [2019] EWHC 1215 (Ch)
- Advising various liquidators in respect of matters involving tax avoidance and directors’ duties
- Acting for the recipient of monies deemed by a trustee in bankruptcy to be a preference payment. Successfully resisting the application by rebutting the statutory presumption of a ‘desire to prefer’
- Abdulali v Finnegan & another [2018] EWHC 1806 (Ch)
Non-contentious
- Acting for Leon Restaurants on the successful implementation of a CVA
- Advising potential plan companies as well as landlords and other creditors, shareholders, and investors on restructuring plans, CVAs, and other consensual restructurings of debt
- Acting for insolvency officeholders and for buyers on various pre and post administration or liquidation sales, including a number within the renewable energy sector
- Advising British Airways plc on various insolvency issues arising out of the collapse of Monarch and Thomas Cook, including on the effect that those entities’ insolvency had on take-off and landing slots
