Nicholas Berry began his legal career in a leading common law chambers in Gray’s Inn and continues to maintain a significant practice in London. His instructions predominantly come through long-standing solicitor and professional clients, often by direct recommendation. He is frequently retained in complex company and partnership disputes, and is regularly instructed to act for professional clients—including solicitors, barristers, surveyors, architects, doctors, and veterinarians—in both commercial matters and sensitive personal issues.
Nicholas specialises in a broad range of property and chancery work, with extensive experience in both contentious and non-contentious matters. His practice areas include:
Core Areas Of Practice
Nicholas was recently successful in acting for international partners in a substantial case involving Nigerian, Italian and offshore petroleum companies in dispute on the meaning of their SHAs and security documents and registered in Panama, Jersey, the Bahamas and numerous other localities and offshore companies. The control and beneficial ownership of the shares was in the region of $7 billion.
