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David P.Sellar QC
Queen's Counsel : 2000
Year Of Call : 1995
Areas of practice
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Summary
David Sellar QC has done company and insolvency work for over 20 years, having worked in those areas in the City of London, been a partner in a solicitors' firm in Scotland and also taught at Edinburgh University. Much of David Sellar's work is advisory, but it also includes applications to the Court of Session in relation to companies' capital structures and insurance transfer schemes, including all of the demutualisations of Scottish insurance companies since 1996.
Professional appointments
- Lecturer in Company Law (full time), University of Edinburgh 1993-1995
- Standing Junior in Scotland to Department for Trade and Industry 1996 to 2000
- Part time lecturer in Company Law, University of Edinburgh, 1989-1993 and 1995-2002
Selected Cases
- Bank of Scotland scheme of arrangement 2001
- Thus plc scheme of arrangement 2003
- Premier Oil plc scheme of arrangement 2005
- House of Fraser plc scheme of arrangement 2006
- Scottish Lion scheme of arrangement 2006
- Scottish Power plc scheme of arrangement 2007
- Christian Salvesen plc scheme of arrangement 2007
- HBOS plc scheme of arrangement 2008
- Scottish Amicable Demutualisation 1998
- Scottish Widows Demutualisation 1999
- Scottish Life Demutualisation 2001
- Scottish Provident Demutualisation 2001
- Standard Life Demutualisation 2007
- Administration of Dunfermline Building Society
- Administration and Liquidation of Atlantic Telecom plc
- Provisional Liquidation of Independent Insurance plc
- BCCI - Scottish Ancillary Winding up
- Bank of Scotland -v- Dunedin Property Investment Co Ltd 1998 SC 657
- Atlantic Telecom GmbH 2004 SLT 1031
- Company Voluntary Arrangement of JJB Sports - Scottish Aspects
- Administration order of Heritable Bank plc (subsidiary of the nationalised Icelandic Landsbanki Bank)
- Administration of Globespan plc - Scottish work
Additional information
- Member of Law Society of Scotland's Company Law and Insolvency Committees
