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Tom Adam KC
Position
Tom Adam KC is well-known as a leading advocate and adviser in a broad range of significant and high value commercial work. Recent cases include acting for the successful claimant in a hard-fought two week arbitration between well-known oligarchs; bringing a £120m claim for Northern Rock against its former solicitors; a successful appeal (having not acted below) for the Candy brothers against a freezing order (Holyoake v Candy [2017] 2 All ER (Comm) 513); and defending a firm of solicitors accused of fraudulent conspiracy to procure false evidence (Accident Exchange v McLean & Others [2018] EWHC (Comm) 23).
Career
Year of Call: 1991
Year of Silk: 2008
Education
Trinity College, Cambridge; BA 1987 (Lizette Bentwich Prize).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Tom Adam KC –Brick Court Chambers ‘Tom is a force of nature. He has the most incisive brain of any barrister, and his advice is always robust and powerful.’
Brick Court Chambers is an excellent firm with a strong team of barristers who conduct some of the highest value and most complex cases in the professional negligence market. Tom Adam KC recently successfully defended a tax silk in McClean v Thornhill KC, a case notable for delineating the duties owned by advisors in that space, as well as the magnitude of the failed tax schemes concerning investments in LLPs investing in films. Additionally, Simon Salzedo KC is currently defending PwC against British American Tobacco in a £600 million claim arising out of disputed dividends paid by a BAT subsidiary to Sequana Plc and historic US pollution liabilities.
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Tom Adam KC –Brick Court Chambers ‘Tom is a force of nature. He has the most incisive brain, and his advice is always robust and powerful. ‘
London Bar > Professional disciplinary and regulatory law
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Tom Adam KC – Brick Court Chambers ‘Tom is easy to work with and responsive. A really excellent silk.’
At Brick Court Chambers, James McClelland KC has longstanding expertise in the space, with an excellent track record in acting for and against regulators, and has particular strength in handling instructions from the legal and financial spheres. Tony Singla KC regularly acts for major accountancy firms in disciplinary cases heard before the Financial Reporting Council. Tom Adam KC has an excellent track record in handling matters involving the Big Four accountants, and the ‘excellent‘ Simon Salzedo KC counts solicitors’ disciplinary work as a key area of instruction. Sarah Bousfield is adept at handling a broad spectrum of regulatory matters, including cases involving allegations of dishonesty and fraud.