CL-2018-000297, CL-2018-000404, CL-2018-000590, - [2025] EWHC 2364 (Comm)

Mr Bains joined Solo in about October 2010, having qualified as a solicitor and practised at Freshfields before moving to roles at ING, then Barclays. He had experience of tax structured transactions and arbitrage, although as with Mr Patterson the evidence at trial does not enable me to describe in any detail the types of transaction with which Mr Bains might therefore have had familiarity before arriving at Solo. He was a founding member of SCP upon its creation as a limited partnership on 31 March 2012, and sat on its management committee, until July 2013. Prior to Mr Pitts’ arrival to take on the Compliance functions, Mr Bains was SCP’s Head of Legal, Head of Compliance, Money Laundering Reporting Officer and de facto COO in London. Mr Bains left SCP in July 2013, but continued to work for Sanjay Shah as a paid consultant until the summer of 2014.