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