Julian Cahn is a leading contentious insolvency lawyer with vast experience in domestic and international corporate and personal insolvency, and dispute resolution. Julian's insolvency practice covers both corporate and personal domestic and cross-border insolvency. He acts for insolvency practitioners, creditors, debtors and all other stakeholders in the insolvency process, with a focus on court driven and contentious insolvency matters. Julian also advises in relation to commercial disputes across a broad range of industries and sectors. This includes both domestic proceedings, as well as international and cross-border litigation strategies. Julian's personal insolvency practice revolves around advising in relation to insolvent individuals with multi-million pound debts and global assets. Recent mandates including acting for the Trustees in Bankruptcy of: Boris Becker; the oligarch Georgy Trefilov; Pragnesh Modhwadia (head of the now defunct law firm Axiom Ince); and the current Welsh men's football team manager Craig Bellamy. On the corporate insolvency side Julian's retainers include acting for: the Liquidators of Rangers Football Club; Receivers appointed by the Court following an application made by a judgment creditor owed cUS$380million; and the Liquidators of the collapsed public relations firm Bell Pottinger. Julian is individually ranked by Chambers & Partners 2025 as Tier 1 for personal insolvency and was amongst a handful of practitioners individually spotlighted in Chambers & Partners 2025's new "Restructuring & Insolvency: Disputes" category. He is a member of R3's General Technical Committee. Directory quotes include: 'Julian Cahn is technically gifted, strategic and tenacious. He has fantastic experience in the contentious insolvency space.' 'Julian Cahn is a super experienced insolvency litigator for both high-profile personal and corporate insolvency matters.'
