One Essex Court

Abra Bompas is recommended in Legal 500 as a Leading Junior for Commercial Litigation and Fraud: Civil, and in Chambers & Partners for Commercial Dispute Resolution.  Her practice covers the broad spectrum of commercial dispute resolution in the High Court (both led and unled) and the Court of Appeal, as well as in international arbitration. Abra acts for clients in disputes arising in (but not limited to) the banking and finance sector (including insolvencies and mis-selling), in contractual claims across a range of industries, in share sale / warranty claims, shareholder actions and fraud claims. Abra was also seconded to the FSA (now FCA).

Abra has extensive trial experience, having acted as part of the One Essex Court counsel team led by Laurence Rabintowitz KC, Charles Graham KC and Jamie Goldsmith KC the Claimant in SKAT v Solo Capital Partners LLP and Others. The Danish Customs and Tax Administration authority’s claim was for US$1.4 billion and was brought against c. 100 defendants. The claim arose out of three related alleged international conspiracies to deceive the authority, and were pleaded under English law, alternatively Danish law. The case was named one of “The Top 20 Cases of 2021” by The Lawyer.

Abra appeared for SKAT before the Supreme Court, as part of the team that secured a unanimous judgment that SKAT’s claims in the Commercial Court did not infringe the common law rule against the enforcement of foreign revenue and public law.

Called 2008, Lincoln’s Inn.

Combar; LCLCBA; FSLA.

University College London (2006 BA Hons History, first class); BPP Law School (GDL; BVC).