Gerard McMeel KC is a commercial, banking and financial services lawyer, both as an academic and practitioner. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in March 2020 (now King’s Counsel), and practises from Quadrant Chambers, London. Gerard has appeared in a significant number of leading cases in investment law in the English courts, and in cases in private and commercial law more generally. As an academic lawyer, he specialises in contract law, commercial law, banking and financial services law and regulation, He is the author of a leading text on the construction of commercial contract. He has held Chairs at three UK universities. He is the Professor of Commercial and Financial Law, and the Director of the Centre for Commercial Law and Financial Regulation, at the University of Reading, UK. Gerard was previously the Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Manchester, a Professor of Law at the University of Bristol.