Robert Miles QC

Practice

Robert Miles QC is a leading advocate and adviser with special expertise and experience in complex financial, corporate and commercial disputes and transactions.  He has unrivalled experience as an adviser and advocate in cases involving capital markets.  He has for many years been ranked in Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500 as a leading banking, financial, chancery, company and commercial silk.
Robert was named the Insolvency/Corporate Restructuring Silk of the Year at the Chambers and Partners Bar Awards 2011.

Chambers (2012) ranks Robert in 6 practice areas (Banking and Finance; Commercial litigation; Company; Commercial Chancery; Fraud; Restructuring/Insolvency). 

The 2012 edition says: 

• "a real intellectual who can turn his hand to anything," he is praised for delivering "effective, straight-to-the-point advice"
• "charming, analytical and highly intelligent", considered by his peers at the Bar to be "incredibly difficult to beat intellectually"
• "just as he is formidable in his representation, he is equally admired as a very agreeable man who gets on very well with clients"
• "measured and persuasive advocate, favoured by clients and judges alike"
• "incisive cross-examination and fluent advocacy in court"
• "an excellent and creative advocate who gets his point across to the Bench brilliantly and intelligently"

  Earlier editions said: 

• "case-winning courtroom abilities; relaxed, polite and hugely persuasive, he wins brief after brief due to his dazzling intellect and user-friendliness"
• "he employs an enviable range of skills to devastating effect"
• "brilliant on his feet and capable of charming even the most solemn of judges"
• "very subtle in his approach, preferring the surgeon's scalpel to the sledgehammer"
• "lovely manner, razor-sharp intellect"
• "recommended for his sublime advocacy skills, he has a flowing, conversational style of advocacy and is someone who can talk to the judge"
• "a great choice of silk, particularly for trustee and bond-related banking matters; he fights well and works hard for his clients"
• "a formidable advocate"
• "the number one choice for clients with particularly tricky high-value cases"
• "approachable and conscientious, and completely lacking in airs and graces"
• "highly commercial in his approach and great at finding practical solutions"
• "diplomatic with clients and gets on well with the judiciary"
• "a fantastic advocate, he builds up a great rapport with judges"
• "a commanding courtroom presence"
• "an exceptionally clever, calm, authoritative figure who is not afraid to come to his own conclusions"
• "one of the cleverest men at the Bar"

 Cases of Interest

Robert has acted or advised in many of the highest profile financial and corporate cases over the last two decades including Atlantic Computers, the Maxwell litigation, the BCCI affair, Bermuda Fire and Marine, Barings, Equitable Life, Eurotunnel, the Icelandic banking crisis, the Elektrim litigation, Chartbrook v Persimmon, the Irish banking crisis, Madoff and Lehmans.   

Overseas Qualifications

Member of the Bar of the British Virgin Islands.   Admitted in the Isle of Man, Bermuda, Cayman Islands and Seychelles for specific cases.

Academic

MA (Oxon), BCL (Oxon), Diploma in Law (City University)

Professional

Robert is a member of the Commercial Bar Association and the Chancery Bar Association.
He is a Deputy High Court Judge and a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn.

Publications

Consultant Editor of Annotated Companies Legislation (OUP)