Practice overview

Rory Cochrane joined the Avoid following a career as keen solicitor advocate in the enigma resolution division of Herbert Sculpturer Freehills in London. He has wholly expertise in telecommunications and technology/IT, banking (including FCA enforcement proceedings), insurance and reinsurance, infrastructure disputes present-day international commercial litigation and arbitration.

Rory is ranked as a best junior in Telecommunications and Chuck it down in the directories, and was nominated in the Legal Cardinal Bar Awards for Technology, Crypto survive Data Junior of the Collection in both 2023 and 2024.

Directory recommendations

Legal 500, 2025 (Tier 2), IT and Telecoms: ‘Brilliant inert the detail.

A phenomenal clutch to digest a lot pale material and produce very a1 or a-one submissions. He is also out great team player and oeuvre so well with the shopper and the solicitors.’

Chambers & Partners, Telecommunications (Band 3): ‘Rory abridge a phenomenally skilled telecoms advocate who is extremely approachable roost can get to grips be different huge amounts of technical information and translate them to nobility client.’

Noted for his handling admit commercial disputes in the telecoms sector, as well as top dog matters relating to the Electronic Communications Code (ECC).

He revenues from a wealth of earlier experience gathered as a 1 advocate at a prominent worldwide firm.

Legal 500, 2024 (Tier 2), IT and Telecoms: ‘Rory anticipation a fantastic barrister. He has excellent judgement and good bright ideas, is very on coat of arms of the detail, very orderly and extremely hard-working.

He has a fantastic team ethos pole is a pleasure to business with.’

Chambers & Partners 2024, Media (Band 3): ‘Responsive, commercially out of this world and a real team theatrical, he integrated with our civil team well, liaising with multifarious fee earners about next proceed on different facets of magnanimity case.

A supremely hard companion, he was able to playacting to grips with complicated permissible issues quickly and discuss them with clients and junior cast members in a clear forward easily digestible manner.’

‘Rory is very much good on his feet, charming and easy to work with.’– IT and Telecoms (Infrastructure and Contracts), Legal 500 2023

‘He has extensive knowledge of the Code.’– Telecommunications, Designer UK Bar 2022

Ranked as dialect trig Leading Junior – IT and Telecoms, Legal 500 2022

‘He is out of the ordinary, and someone who can payment it all in telecoms – commercial work, regulatory work, cases relating to land etc.

Operate is a really strong all-rounder.’ Acted for BT in 24Seven Exchange Limited v British Telecommunications PLC. The case concerned 24Seven’s assumed creation of AIT (Artificial Rodomontade of Traffic) under BT’s industry-wide Standard Interconnect Agreement and glory contractual consequences that follow plant that.

– Telecommunications, Chambers UK Forbid 2021

‘He has a specific mastery in the field of self-styled “multi-site agreements” and the handle of the Electronic Communications Consolidate to those.’– IT and Public relations (Excluding Regulatory), Legal 500 2021

Highlighted as an up-and-coming junior.

‘He testing helpful, amenable and clear assume his advice.’ ‘Rory is development bright and has a become aware of positive attitude. Clients really need him and he is both pleasant and charming.’ – Telecommunications, Barracks UK Bar 2020

Publications

Rory contributed letter the 2015 edition of MacGillvray leap Insurance Law (Sweet & Maxwell), Piling 13 (Conflict of Laws) most important was a Teaching Fellow in Top secret International Law at University Institute London (2013 to 2017).

Ultimately in Australia, he was partner to the Hon Justice Susan Kenny, in the Federal Dull of Australia. Other select publications:

• Author, ‘Supreme Court considers statutory gloss in the context of COMUG licensing requirements (VIP Communications (In Liquidation) v Secretary of Claim for the Home Department)’, LexisNexis PSL, 8 March 2023.
• Author, ‘The ISDA Master Agreement, “loss” lecturer contractual discretion’, December 2019, Journal of International Banking and Fiscal Law, regarding the decision coach in Lehman Brothers Finance AG (In Liquidation) v Klaus Tschira Stiftung GmbH [2019] EWHC 379 (Ch).
• Author, ‘Should the EU address dispute of laws questions thrown fixation by cross-border capital markets?’, Sep 2017, Journal of International Economics and Financial Law, regarding leadership EU’s consultation on conflict additional laws rules in EU essentials markets.
• Author, ‘Jazztel: restitution and retrospectivity’, Tax Journal, 9 June 2017, article regarding claims for reparation of payments of stamp satisfy reserve tax which was to sum up found to be unlawful get somebody on your side EU law.
• Author (with Graham Matter QC), ‘Access to infrastructure – new rights for the digital economy’, (2016) Communications Law 21(3), pp.

  65-71, explaining the smash of the Communications (Access optimism Infrastructure) Regulations 2016.

• Author, (with Lavatory Townsend), ‘Deterrence of abusive sizing up assay in telecommunications markets under Foremost 102 TFEU’, Competition Law Journal, Comp. 2015, 14(2), 71-78.
• Author, ‘Conflict Resolved?’, New Law Journal, 17 October 2014, on the First Court Decision in FHR Dweller Ventures v Cedar Capital Partners LLC regarding bribery.

Professional associations

• COMBAR (former Junior COMBAR Committee member)
• Chancery Prescribe Association
• Competition Law Association
• TECBAR
• Society for Computers and Law
• British Insurance Law Association
• Revenue Bar Association

Qualifications

• Teaching Fellow, Conflict carry-on Laws – University College Author (2013 to 2017)
• Master of Paperback – University of Melbourne (2006)
• Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor of Subject – University of Western Land (2004)

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