Arbitrators

Adam Smith-Roberts

Adam Smith-Roberts

Position

Adam is a specialist in traditional and commercial chancery work including wills and probate, contentious trusts, insolvency, and company and shareholder disputes, as well as commercial dispute resolution and international arbitration. He is ranked as a Rising Star by Legal 500 in ‘Private client: trusts and probate.’

Adam has a background in real property work and is comfortable dealing with matters with a strong property element.

Adam appears regularly in courts and tribunals, representing a broad range of clients from individuals to large multi-national corporations. His practice is increasingly international with parties based in jurisdictions including the United States, Brazil, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, The Bahamas, and Hong Kong, amongst others.

Career

Prior to becoming a barrister, Adam worked in broadcast journalism for nine years, primarily focussing on politics. He helped communicate stories to the public and interviewed prime ministers and foreign heads of state, amongst others. He also worked for the legal human rights charity, Reprieve.

Call: 2019

Memberships

Property Bar Association Chancery Bar Association Contentious Trusts Association

Education

BA Jurisprudence, University of Oxford BPTC, City Law School

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