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Adam Zellick KC

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Position

Established Leader for significant cases with a strong, broad-based, commercial practice and extensive experience in arbitration, aviation, banking, civil fraud, commercial litigation, and conflict of laws. Acts in a wide range of commercial cases, arbitrations and appeals, including the very heavy, multi-party, expert-intensive, high-value or publicity-sensitive.

As well as confidential arbitrations/matters, cases include: AXA v Genworth v Santander (Comm), SKAT v Solo Capital (Comm), Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank v Shetty & Ors (Comm), Premier v PwC & Lloyds (Ch & CA), Pakistan v NatWest (Ch), GSH6 v Atalian Europe (Comm), Re Blackmore Bonds, Morris v Swanton (QB & CA), Palladian v Argentina (Comm), Ventra v BoS (Comm), Deutsche Bank v Unitech (Comm & CA), Alliance Bank v Arip (Comm), LICT v VTBC (Comm), Messerer v NatWest (Comm), Access Bank v Akingbola (Comm & CA), Air France AF447 (QB), Re Dewey LeBoeuf – Barclays Bank v McMillan (Comm), Peak Hotels v Tarek Investments (Ch), Macquarie v Artefact (Comm), SocGen v Saad (Comm & CA), ICD v Tuwairqi Steel (Comm), AWAS v Jordan Aviation (Comm), MIC v Naftogaz (Comm & CA).

Career

Called 2000, Middle Temple (Queen Mother Scholar, Sachs Prize); Called BVI 2014; Silk 2017; Research Assistant, Law Commission 2000-01; Supervisor in Law, Gonville and Caius College 2001-02; author of ‘Civil Aviation’, vol 8(1) Atkins Court Forms (2006, 2010); former contributor and law reporter ‘Civil Procedure Reports’; former contributor, Bullen and Leake and Jacob’s Precedents of Pleadings; Editorial Board, Counsel magazine, 2012-16.

Memberships

COMBAR; LCLCBA; SE Circuit; ICC YAF.

Education

MA, University of Cambridge (Squire Scholar), Gonville and Caius College (Senior Scholar; Tapp Postgraduate Scholar in Law; Sir William McNair Law Prize; Frere Smith Prize for Law).