Adrian Beltrami KC KC > Chambers of Ewan McQuater KC and David Quest KC > London, England > Barrister Profile

3 Verulam Buildings ‘consistently fields the best and the brightest at the commercial Bar’, regularly handling multi-jurisdictional, complex cases at all levels of the English court system and globally. The set continues to be active in high-value corporate insolvency-related claims, including Phones4u Limited v Vodafone Group, where Ewan McQuater KC led Adam Kramer KC and Hannah Glover in Vodafone’s defence against allegations, brought by the collapsed retailer’s liquidators, that mobile phone networks conspired with each other to terminate their dealings with it. Andrew Onslow KC, Peter De Verneuil Smith KC, and Adam Kramer KC acted for various claimant groups in a FSMA s.90/90A securities claim against Glencore, accused of hiding corrupt activities through misleading statements in published prospectuses. In Umbrella Interchange Fee Claimants v Mastercard, Adrian Beltrami KC was instructed to act for over 1,000 merchants in claims brought against Mastercard and Visa in respect of alleged unlawful interchange fees. Another key case includes Jonathan Davies-Jones KC, Clarissa Jones, and Georges Chalfoun’s defence of Siam Commercial Bank in Suppipat v Narongdej and others, involving an alleged fraudulent conspiracy related to the sale of a major wind energy company in Thailand.

With ‘quality from top to bottom’, members of 3 Verulam Buildings handle a wide range of civil fraud matters, from banking fraud and breach of fiduciary duties to bribery and asset tracing. Adrian Beltrami KC is acting for the claimant in Jinxin v Aser Media, a claim of deceit and conspiracy arising from the purchase of a sports media company. In Harrington & Charles Trading Co v Mehta, Ewan McQuater KC heads a counsel team including Ian Wilson KC, Philip Hinks, James McWilliams, and James McWilliams, representing the claimant liquidators, who allege that the defendants fraudulently acquired gold bullion shipments from Indian banks. Various members of the set remain involved in significant cum-ex claims, where the Danish tax authority seeks to recover sums it alleges were lost through unlawfully claimed tax refunds; this includes David Head KC, Christopher Bond, Hannah Glover, and Sophia Dzwig representing the DWF defendant group in SKAT v Solo Capital Partners LLP, and Tom Montagu-Smith KC and Philip Hinks acting for the same claimant in SKAT v Elysium Global (Dubai) Ltd and Elysium Properties Ltd.