Hon. Justice Nicholas Segal

Place of birth

United Kingdom

Date Appointed

Appointed since 2015

Nationality

Citizen of the United Kingdom

Assigned to the Financial Services Division

QUALIFICATIONS

  • M.A., University of Oxford (England) (St. Peter’s College)
  • Admitted as a Solicitor, 1982
  • Qualified to practice at the New York Bar since 2003
  • Called the Bar of England and Wales and qualified as a barrister, 2018

BAR, JUDICIAL EXPERIENCE

  • Partner (previously trainee and associate) Cameron Markby (now CMS Cameron McKenna) London, 1980-1988
  • Partner, Allen and Overy, London, 1988-2003
  • Partner, Davis Polk and Wardwell, New York, 2003-2006
  • Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, 2006 to 2018
  • Barrister, Erskine Chambers, Chancery Lane, London
  • Appointed Judge of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands assigned to the Financial Services Division, January 2015 (full-time)
  • Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies and of INSOL
  • Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy
  • Trustee of BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Service)
  • Tutor, BCL, Oxford University
  • Consulting Editor, Totty, Moss and Segal on Insolvency (Sweet & Maxwell)
  • Consulting Editor, Debt Restructuring (OUP)
  • Contributing author, Lightman& Moss, The Law of Administrators and Receivers of Companies, Moss, Fletcher & Isaacs, The EC Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings and Rose, Restitution and Banking Law.
  • Member, Advisory Board for the Oxford Masters in Law and Finance Programme and of the Oxford Centre for Commercial Law Studies
  • Deputy Chair of the Oxford University Society
  • Member, Steering Committee and Executive Committee of the Secured Transactions Law Reform Project
  • Formerly Visiting Fellow at University College and at Queen Mary & Westfield College, London