Exchange Chambers

Renowned academic joins chambers to complement launch of Exchange Insolvency

Renowned author and academic Professor David Milman has joined Exchange Chambers in Manchester as a Professorial Associate. The move comes as the rapidly expanding Set launches its specialist ‘Exchange Insolvency’ division.

David Milman is Professor of Law at the University of Lancaster and is widely regarded as a leading authority on insolvency law.  He will work in a professorial capacity within Exchange Chambers as the set showcases its insolvency expertise with the launch of a specialist division.

Said Tom Handley, Director of Chambers at Exchange Chambers:

“The launch of Exchange Insolvency brings together our insolvency specialists and allows them to operate under a dedicated and recognisable department. David’s appointment as our Professorial Associate will add real value and prestige to our service offering.”

Professor Milman became head of the Lancaster Law School in 2008.  His research interests are in the fields of company law, insolvency law, international business law and partnership law. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of The Company Lawyer and Managerial Law. Having edited the Insolvency Lawyer for a decade in 2004 he became a co-editor of Insolvency Intelligence. He is a Consultant Editor to Sweet and Maxwell's Company Law Newsletter and a founder co-editor of the Bankruptcy and Personal Insolvency Reports.

Professor Milman is a subscriber member of R3 (Association of Business Recovery Professionals) and he was chair of the Insolvency Lawyers' Association Academic Advisory Group until 2008. Most recently, he organised the ILA academic seminar on the Challenges Facing Insolvency Practitioners in March 2007 at the Said Business School in Oxford. He is a frequent speaker on the professional conference circuit and has presented a number of papers for Central Law Training over the past4 years. He also speaks at events organised by individual sets of chambers and by Regional Bar Associations.

He has published Modern Partnership Law (1983, with T. Flanagan), Sweet & Maxwell's Annotated Guide to the Companies Consolidation Acts (3rd ed., 1991, co-editor), Educational Conflict and the Law (1986), Annotated Guide to the 1986 Insolvency Legislation (11th ed. 2008, with L. Sealy), Receivers and Receiverships (1987, with J. Rushworth) and Corporate Insolvency Law and Practice (3rd ed. 1999, with C. Durrant), Regulating Enterprise (1999). In 1998 a Study of the Operation of Transactional Avoidance Mechanisms in Corporate Insolvency Practice (with R. Parry) was published. He was also a contributor to Palmer's Company Law (25th ed.) and is a co-editor of Bankruptcy and Personal Insolvency Reports. He was a contributor of three chapters to a new text (Palmer's Limited Liability Partnerships Law) in 2002. From 2007 he contributed to a number of Divisions in OUP's Annotated Companies Acts.

The 12th edition of the Annotated Guide to Insolvency Legislation (with LS Sealy) was published in October 2009 (in two volumes). This text is widely used in the courts as a primary reference work and has received a number of judicial citings. Work has commenced on the 13th edition.

Exchange Insolvency comprises thirteen insolvency barristers, four of whom are QCs.