Peter is a senior associate in the restructuring and insolvency team and advises on both corporate and personal insolvency law issues. His clients include directors, companies, insolvency practitioners, individuals threatened by bankruptcy, together with creditors looking to enforce contractual rights and/or judgments against financially distressed companies/individuals.

Peter also has extensive and wide-ranging commercial and civil fraud litigation experience before the English courts and London seat arbitral tribunals (various rules), as well as in the courts of common-law offshore jurisdictions in the British Virgin Islands (“BVI”) and Bermuda.

Another area of his practice is professional negligence claims were in the past he has acted for the Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund on defending complex cases brought against leading barristers.

Peter qualified in 2004 and joined Russell-Cooke in 2026 from a well-known high net worth private client focused international ‘City’ law firm.  He also previously worked in the BVI and is admitted there (now non-practising).  Such experience has led to him being involved in dual (and multi) jurisdiction disputes, with recent work including involvement in successful high profile and complex judgment enforcement proceedings for a client against a sovereign state.

Peter's experience includes:

• Advising clients on all aspects of bankruptcy.
• Advising administrators and liquidators on their appointments over insolvent businesses and their resulting investigations into them, such appointments in the past having involved the retail, technology and commodities sectors, among others.
• Advising directors of companies on their duties and obligations.
• Acting for administrators/liquidators in claims against management of insolvent companies, as well as antecedent transaction claims brought under the relevant insolvency legislation.
• Acting for clients on the enforcement and recovery of English Court judgments both in England and across the world including in the USA, Canada, throughout the EU, Singapore, the BVI, and the Channel Islands.
• Acting for a property investment company on enforcing a multi-million personal guarantee against a director of an insolvent company.
• Acting for a Chinese investment company in its enforcement of a multi-million investment treaty arbitral award against Nigeria which raised complex sovereign immunity issues.
• Advising on a multi-million dollar purported fraud concerning a London based property financier and a member of royalty from the Middle East.
• Acting for a barrister in defending a professional negligence claim brought by a vexatious litigant in person.

• Acting for family members of a senior member of the Saudi Royal family in his 5+ year battle to successfully resist bankruptcy based on a substantial judgment debt of over US$500,000,000 on the basis the English Court lacked jurisdiction.
• Representing clients in a mult-million euro dispute that resulted in obtaining a EUR 172 million judgment against the German Entrepreneur, Lars Windhorst, and his group of companies.  Enforcement of the judgment involved working closely with lawyers in multiple jurisdictions including in the USA, Netherlands and Switzerland.
• Representing the BVI liquidators of the second-largest of the “feeder funds” which channelled billions of US dollars into Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities LLC.  Litigation brought by the liquidators included audit negligence and claims in unjust enrichment and contract/tort against the management of the companies.

Read Government and Law at the University of Manchester (BA (Hons), 2001) and later gained a Master’s degree at King’s College London in International Relations (MA, 2018) that focused on political risk and cybersecurity.

• Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs).
• Professional Negligence Lawyers’ Association.