Brick Court Chambers

Tom Adam KC is well-known as an outstanding advocate in a broad range of heavy commercial work. He is a market leader in complex professional negligence/disciplinary matters, and is regularly instructed in matters involving leading City solicitors, the Big Four accountants and prominent members of the Bar. He has acted in many cases in the public eye including the phone hacking scandal; Takeover Panel proceedings; FSMA s90/90A claims; various film finance cases; and the Kuwaiti pension fund fraud litigation. He has extensive experience of dealing with regulatory bodies in high profile disciplinary matters and led the Counsel team acting for the FRC in relation to the auditing of Carillion plc.

“He is outstanding. I continue to think that he is the person I would least want to be against.”
“Tom is an incredibly powerful advocate … absolutely top-drawer.”
“Tom is absolutely outstanding. He is a really smart litigator and a very smart strategist.”
“… thinks through absolutely everything.”
“… a great leader and an outstanding advocate.”

Year of Call: 1991

Year of Silk: 2008

Trinity College, Cambridge; BA 1987 (Lizette Bentwich Prize).