Hon. Justice Nicholas Segal
Grand Court Judge
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Nationality: Citizen of the United Kingdom
Appointed since 2015
Assigned to the Financial Services Division (FSD)
QUALIFICATIONS
- MA, 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 – 2018;
- Barrister, Erskine Chambers, Chancery Lane, London;
- Appointed Judge of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands assigned to the Financial Services Division (FSD), 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