Masters of the Bench

After reading law at New College, Oxford (BA and BCL, both First Class), Nikki taught contract and trusts at Oxford and was called to the Bar in 2000. Awarded the Queen Mother’s Scholarship and Harmsworth Entrance Exhibition. His pupillage was at Wilberforce Chambers where he has remained ever since. He is recognised as a leading advocate in trusts, company and commercial chancery litigation, much of it with an international flavour. He appears in the Chancery Division, Commercial Court and overseas (called ad hoc in Cayman, Bermuda and Mauritius). He was appointed King’s Counsel in 2018. In 2020, he was appointed a Recorder of the Crown Court on the South-Eastern Circuit.

He sat on the Inn’s Hall Committee and continues to sit on the Inn’s International Committee. He served for a decade on COMBAR’s executive committee, attending the historic 2007 conference in Jamestown.

In his spare time, he enjoys tennis, cricket and walking.