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Tony Singla KC KC
Position
Tony Singla KC has a broad practice which covers all areas of Commercial Law. He took silk in 2021 at only 14 years’ call. According to Legal 500 “Tony’s promotion to silk so quickly is testament to his brilliance. He is one of the future stars at the commercial Bar”. Chambers & Partners says he is “more than capable of leading a team in the largest and most complex of disputes”.
Tony is regularly instructed as the lead advocate in the High Court, the Court of Appeal, and the Competition Appeal Tribunal, and he has also appeared on numerous occasions in the Supreme Court. In addition, Tony has a substantial arbitration practice and he appears frequently before tribunals under LCIA, ICC, and other rules.
Tony is recommended as a leading silk in Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 in eight fields: Banking and Finance, Civil Fraud, Commercial Litigation, Competition Law, Group Litigation, Insurance, Professional Discipline, and Professional Negligence. He is also recommended in Who’s Who Legal for Banking and Finance and Competition Law. For many years Tony has been instructed in the highest-profile and highest-value cases in each of these fields, including more than 10 of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases in the last 10 years. He has particular expertise in group litigation having acted in a number of shareholder claims and competition class actions.
Career
Called 2007, Lincoln’s Inn; Retained Lecturer in Law, Oxford University, teaching contract law and competition law (2006-11). Publications: co-author of ‘Accountants’ Negligence and Liability’ (due to be published in 2016); contributing author of ‘Competition Litigation: UK Practice and Procedure’ (OUP, 2010).
Silk 2021
Languages
French.
Memberships
COMBAR; Bar European Group; Bar Pro Bono Unit.
Education
Winchester College; Pembroke College, Oxford University (BA (Hons) Law (First Class)), (BCL (Distinction)); Inns of Courts School of Law (Bar Vocational Course (Outstanding)).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Professional disciplinary and regulatory law
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Tony Singla KC – Brick Court Chambers ‘Tony is very good at drilling down into a mass of detail and distilling the true issues in a case.‘
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.
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 6Tony Singla KC –Brick Court Chambers ‘Tony is very responsive, a good team player, and commercial in his views.’
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Tony Singla KC –Brick Court Chambers ‘Tony is definitely a future star at the commercial Bar. He is brilliantly clever yet he has a delightful manner and can cut through complexity with ease.’
London Bar > Competition
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Tony Singla KC – Brick Court Chambers ‘Excellent advocate and extremely hard working.’
London Bar > Banking and finance (including consumer credit)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Tony Singla KC – Brick Court Chambers ‘Tony is very hard-working and very thoughtful. He considers points in very thorough detail before giving his view but then is very much able to give a strong and definitive view.’
London Bar > Insurance and reinsurance
Brick Court Chambers continue to be instructed on significant insurance and reinsurance cases, including Aercap v AIG (& Others), in which Mark Howard KC was involved and raised significant legal issues both about the US, UK and EU Sanctions law, and English insurance law alongside raising factual issues, concerning the effective seizure of aircraft leased to Russian airlines after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Tony Singla KC acted for Zurich Insurance in a $1bn claim arising out of the abandonment of a mobile offshore production unit in the Norwegian North Sea subject to a construction all risks policy, whereas Simon Salzedo KC is noted for his involvement in business interruption insurance cases concerning Covid-19 lockdowns.
London Bar > Group litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Tony Singla KC – Brick Court Chambers ‘A forceful advocate who is very nimble on his feet.’
Brick Court Chambers’ members in the group litigation space includes instructions in Lloyd v Google, Alex Neill Class Representative Ltd v Sony, and Merricks v Mastercard, in which Marie Demetriou KC continues to act for a claimant group, effectively including almost all adults in the UK, concerning the card networks’ interchange fees on all card transactions. Sarah Abram KC is instructed in emissions litigation for BMW, as well as in BSV Claims v Bittylicious & ors, an application for collective proceedings on behalf of investors in a cryptocurrency derived from Bitcoin, including allegations of collusion via public statements on Twitter. Tony Singla KC is acting for Barclays in a case brought by hundreds of shareholders under sections 90 and 90A FSMA for allegedly false and misleading statements.