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Kendrah Potts
Work Department
Domestic and international commercial litigation and arbitration. Sports law. Costs.
Position
Kendrah was called to the Bar after working as a solicitor for eleven years. She spent eight years at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where she gained broad experience of High Court litigation, international arbitration and multi-jurisdictional disputes. She was a Partner and Head of Litigation at Onside Law before joining Mishcon de Reya as a Legal Director.
Kendrah has a broad commercial practice, advising on disputes across a wide range of industries. Many of her cases involve allegations of fraudulent conduct and have an international aspect.
Kendrah is instructed to act on high profile disputes in the sports industry representing athletes, clubs, sports governing bodies and agents before domestic and international tribunals and courts. Kendrah represents clients in disciplinary proceedings (including charges of match-fixing, doping and bringing the game into disrepute), as well as on commercial disputes.
In 2014 Kendrah was Legal Counsel to the international commission established by the Union Cycliste Internationale to investigate doping and related allegations of corruption and mismanagement in cycling. She also undertook a secondment to the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games where she was the lead lawyer on sports integrity and anti-doping. Kendrah was appointed to the Challenge Panel advising the UK Government on its review of UK Anti-Doping in 2017.
Kendrah is on the arbitration and mediation panels of Sport Resolutions, the British Equestrian Federation and Union Cycliste Internationale. She is also an editor for LawInSport.
Career
Legal director, Mishcon de Reya LLP; Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution, Onside Law; Associate (Trainee), Freshfields
Languages
French; Spanish
Memberships
Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association
COMBAR
British Association for Sport and Law
Education
Oxford University (Law with French Law)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Sport
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Kendrah Potts – 4 New Square ‘Kendrah is fantastic to work with. She is extremely practical, a skilful oral advocate, knows the case inside out and is great with clients.’
4 New Square Chambers acts ‘at the top of the field on high-profile sports disputes‘, in particular representing national and international sports governing bodies. For example, Pippa Manby managed to prosecuted former Northampton Saints player Chris Mayor, who was banned for four years for trafficking human growth hormone, while Kendrah Potts acted as sole counsel to the ICC in bringing corruption charges against the former West Indies player Marlon Samuels. Potts also led William Harman for the International Tennis Integrity Agency, bringing 107 charges for match-fixing against six professional tennis players. Turning to defence work, Richard Liddell KC acted for race horse trainer Richard Hannon in a BHA case after a race horse’s urine sample was found to contain arsenic. Members of the set sit as well – Graeme McPherson KC chaired the determination of the EFL’s Financial Fair Play charges against Derby County FC.
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Kendrah Potts –4 New Square ‘She is hands on and understands how to support solicitors and be a real team player. She combines this with extremely strong written and oral advocacy, and a pragmatic and commercial approach.’
London Bar > Fraud: civil
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Kendrah Potts –4 New Square ‘Very pleasant to work with, great written work, and very solicitor and user-friendly.‘
4 New Square Chambers is ‘a strong set with some stellar individuals among its ranks‘. In a complex $2bn fraud claim brought by a Thai businessman, Justin Fenwick KC, George Spalton KC and Kendrah Potts acted for the claimant, who alleges that one of Thailand’s largest financial institutions, together with its CEO, engaged in a fraudulent conspiracy to deprive him of his interest in a renewable energy company. Elsewhere in chambers, Daniel Saoul KC represents the Serious Fraud Office, KPMG, Harbour Litigation Funding, Quantuma, and a law firm in the high-stakes Orb litigation, which involves the rights to assets that are worth over £100m and the proceeds of complex frauds.