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Rabin is a versatile commercial chancery barrister who is equally comfortable working unled or as part of a team. He enjoys specialist insolvency and bankruptcy work – and was named a ‘Rising Star’ for insolvency work by Legal 500’s 2025 guide. Rabin is equally happy acting in and has substantial experience of fraud, company, trust and commercial disputes (with no insolvency element).
He is called to the Bars of England & Wales, the BVI and Singapore and has also been instructed in relation to litigation in the Isle of Man, ADGM, DIFC, Cayman Islands, Bermuda and Jersey.
Highlights of Rabin’s contentious insolvency experience include:
- Re Avanti Communications Ltd [2023] EWHC 940 (Ch) – Rabin successfully acted for the Lead Secured Creditors in this landmark case, which changed the law on proper characterisation of fixed and floating charges for the first time in 20 years (led by David Allison KC)
- Terrae Nominees et al v Pretlove – acting in a BVI High Court application to challenge a liquidator’s decision to move the companies from voluntary to insolvent liquidation. The companies are defendants to a Russian bank’s US$2bn lawsuit against various commodity houses and individuals (led by Sue Prevezer KC)
Several cryptocurrency exchange insolvencies and related litigation including:
- Three Arrows Capital’s insolvency in the BVI (acting for the liquidators in various aspects of the proceedings, led by Richard Fisher KC, Marcus Haywood and Henry Phillips)
- Transaction avoidance proceedings brought by Mirror Trading International’s South African liquidators in England under section 426 of the Insolvency Act (led by Charlotte Cooke
- Several insolvencies precipitated by UK and US sanctions on Russia, including the administration of CargoLogicAir and the insolvency of an Isle of Man ‘fund of funds’ paralysed by OFAC sanctions on its Russian UBOs.
Highlights of Rabin’s civil fraud and commercial experience include:
- Sayacorp BSC v NMC Healthcare Ltd – defending a Bahraini bank against US$850m+ claims in conspiracy and fraudulent trading before the Courts of the Abu Dhabi Global Market (led by Richard Gillis KC and William Willson).
- IS Prime v TF Global Markets (UK) Ltd – defending a prime brokerage in a highly technical 4-week Commercial Court trial of deceit and conspiracy claims relating to forex and index swap trade platforms and execution, and acting in a complex specific disclosure application reported at [2023] 4 WLUK 357. The case settled favourably on the first day of trial. (led throughout by Adam Al-Attar KC)
Highlights of Rabin’s unled work as sole advocate include:
- Re Time GB (Royale Group) – Rabin successfully obtained (for a creditor owed £57m) the appointment of “conflict” administrators over a company whose financial affairs required urgent investigation, despite opposition from secured creditors and a majority of unsecureds. Rabin also acted in related bankruptcy proceedings against the billionaire Robert Bull.
- Re CargoLogicAir Ltd –Rabin acts unled for the Joint Administrators on various contentious and non-contentious aspects of one of the first UK companies to enter insolvency as a result of OFSI sanctions on Russia. He previously acted led (by Adam Al Attar KC) to place CLA into administration.
Rabin has a busy unled High Court practice beyond this, which has seen him: (successfully) resist applications for urgent proprietary freezing orders, secure and resist orders restraining winding up petitions, act in applications to set aside statutory demands in bankruptcy, and act for bankruptcy trustees in private examinations. He often acts unled against counsel many years senior to him.
Rabin is Public Access qualified, though he usually only accepts instructions through solicitors. He can however be instructed directly by foreign lawyers, insolvency practitioners, and in other appropriate cases.
Before coming to the Bar, Rabin topped his year at Cambridge University and subsequently graduated with a First Class degree in Law and as a Senior Scholar of Peterhouse. He also served as an air defence officer during mandatory military service. Rabin previously taught trusts and contract part time at Oxford University.
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Legal 500 (Rising Star, 2025):
“Rabin is simply a remarkable junior”
“Extremely accurate, sensible and hard-working”
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