Steven Gee QC - Curriculum Vitae

Steven Gee QC has been in silk since 1993. Whilst a junior he was standing junior counsel to the Department of Trade and Industry (ECGD). He is the head of a specialist commercial, shipping and intellectual property set of chambers, a commercial litigator, and the author of “Commercial Injunctions” (published by Sweet & Maxwell, now in its 5th ed) and supplement. He was a tenant in two leading sets of commercial chambers for the first 25 years of his career, and in 1999 accepted an invitation to become Head of Chambers of his present set.

Steven Gee practises in the full range of commercial work including:

• Arbitrations
• Agency agreements
• Distribution agreements
• Commercial contracts
• Joint ventures
• Oil and gas
• Insurance and reinsurance cases
• Misrepresentation and civil fraud
• Shipping
• Shipbuilding
• Offshore rigs
• Banking

Steven has appeared in numerous cases over a period of over 30 years. He is a recommended specialist in the Directories published by Chambers Global, Chambers UK and Legal 500 .

He sits as a commercial arbitrator and has acted in numerous arbitrations over a period of over 30 years, in England, Bermuda, New York, Paris, Geneva and Hong Kong, and as counsel in cases about the enforcement of arbitration agreements and arbitral awards.

He has appeared as counsel in Bermuda, in the Supreme Court of the Republic of Ireland, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Antigua.

He sits as a Recorder of the Crown Court for civil, criminal and family matters. He lectures extensively on all aspects of commercial law, and bodies for whom he has lectured include the Judicial Studies Board (to Court of Appeal and High Court judges), the Law Society of London, the Commercial Bar Association, the London Shipping Law Centre, GAFTA, New York State Bar Association, Butterworths, Legal Week and C5.

Bars etc: He is a Queen’s Counsel practising in London, a member of the New York Bar and admitted to practice in the State and Federal Courts in New York, a member of the Antigua Bar, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a Recorder.

Memberships: The Commercial Bar Association, the London Court of International Arbitration, the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the International Bar Association, and a supporting member of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association.

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Education

• Tonbridge School
• Harvard University (Logic and Roman History)
• Brasenose College - Oxford University (Open Scholarship in Natural Sciences). M.A. (Oxon) First Class in Law
• Gibbs Prize for Law, Oxford University,
• Senate of Inns of Court Prize for top placed candidate in Bar Exams for England and Wales, Harmsworth Scholarship (Middle Temple).

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Articles include

• The Remedies carried by a Freezing Injunction (2006) 122 Law Quarterly Review 535.
• The Autonomy of Arbitrators and Fraud unravels all (2006) 22 Arbitration International 337.
• The Undertaking in Damages (2006) Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 181
• Transactions in Fraud of Creditors: The Foreign Element [2005] International Corporate Rescue (Issue 1) 29 (with Ravi Aswani) ;
• Performance Bonds (2005) Vol 1 Bankers’ Law 1 (with Mary Gibbons).
• The Solicitor’s duty to warn that a court might take a different view (2003) Vol. 19 Journal of Professional Negligence Vol 19 p.362;
• Interpretation of Commercial Contracts (2001) 117 Law Quarterly Review 358;
• Construing Contracts with Mistakes in them [2001] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 214;
• Keeping Confidences (1998) Commercial Lawyer 38,
• Mareva Injunctions-the Reforms of the Law made by its Soul [1998] International Journal of Insurance Law 133,
• Mareva Injunctions – the Law (1995) Commercial Lawyer 52,
• Mercedes and Mareva (1995) 139 Solicitors Journal 1076,
• Diving In at the Deep End (1995) Law Society Gazette 23

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