Commercial
Adam has a broad commercial chancery practice, encompassing:
- Company and insolvency
- Partnership
- Commercial fraud
- Professional Negligence
- Insurance and reinsurance
- General commercial litigation
Adam’s primary focus is on litigation but he also regularly acts for insurers and reinsurers on insurance business transfer schemes and schemes of arrangement.
Commercial Cases
Berryland Books Limited v BK Books Limited (2010) (CA)
Re Tenecom Limited (2010)
Belfairs Management Limited v Sutherland & anor [2010] EWHC 2276 (Ch)
Koshy v Deg-Deutsche Investitions-und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH and another [2008] EWCA Civ 27
Lexi Holdings Ltd v. Luqman and Others [2007] All ER (D) 238 (Jan)
Woking Ex-service Memorial Club, Working Men’s Club & Institute (2006) EWHC 28/11/06
Koshy v Deg-Deutsche Investitions-und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH and another [2006] EWHC 17
Re Syndicate 982 and Sterling Life Limted (2006)
Re Nissay Dowa General Insurance Company Limited (2006)
Z1 Ltd [2006] All ER (D) 188 (Nov)
Prior to joining Three Stone Chambers, Adam practised as an employed barrister at Clyde & Co. where he acted in numerous insurance and reinsurance matters often with an international dimension, including:
• Litigation arising out of the major insurance fraud trial, Sphere Drake v EIU & SCB (2002);
• The first insurance business transfer scheme under the Financial Markets and Services Act 2000 WASA International & AGF Insurance Limited v WASA;
• An insurance claim arising out of investors’ allegations of the misselling of split capital investment trusts;
• The recovery of US$115 million on behalf of the Turkish Government and Italian contractors as a result of earthquake damage to the Ankara/Istanbul Highway in 1999, in the subsequent litigation in the High Court (KGM & Astaldi SPA v Generali Kent Sigorta & others (2002)) and in associated ICC arbitration proceedings in Zurich;
• An arbitration for a Lloyds syndicate against reinsurers, in respect of claims on its catastrophe aviation cover;
• An arbitration for a life insurer concerning a premium rebate overpayment by reinsurers amounting to £100 million.