Ruhi Sethi-Smith – Barrister, Forum Chambers Ruhi has a thriving commercial and chancery practice which focuses company and insolvency disputes as well as fraud and asset recovery. Ruhi typically acts for administrators, liquidators, receivers, and trustees in bankruptcy on a wide range of insolvency applications, freezing injunctions and claims for misfeasance, wrongful trading and misappropriation of company funds. Ruhi's recent work includes advising liquidators in relation to claims from investors following the failure of care home development, resisting an application for setting aside a statutory demand for £90million owed under personal guarantees given by a director to obtain a loan, representing joint administrators on an application to sell a valuable property free of interests and advising on the validity and priority of securities and numerous remuneration applications on behalf of administrators and liquidators. Ruhi is a very experienced advocate, and clients have described Ruhi as 'robust, personable and client friendly with high levels of detail.' Ruhi was a solicitor before transferring to the bar and worked in a number of well-respected City firms and as a consequence is commercial and pragmatic in her approach.
