Gatehouse Chambers

Private Client, Insolvency, Commercial Dispute Resolution, International, Property

Adam is a specialist in trusts and estates, company and partnership disputes, insolvency, commercial dispute resolution and international arbitration. His particular focus running through all of his work is on the duties and obligations of trustees, directors, office holders, fiduciaries and others. Adam also has experience of enforcement of judgments and asset tracing.

Adam appears in both the leading legal directories, Chambers and Partners and Legal 500, for his private wealth and commercial dispute resolution work.

In Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2026 (the guide for high- and ultra-high net worth individuals) Adam is ranked as ‘Up and Coming’ and descried as ‘a stellar junior who excels in both written and oral advocacy’ and ‘robust’ with invaluable ‘technical knowledge and attention to detail’.

In Legal 500 2026 Adam is ranked as a ‘Rising Star’ in both Commercial Litigation and Private Wealth and Probate, with his advice commended as ‘coherent, clear and always understood’.

Adam appears regularly in courts and tribunals both led and unled, representing a broad range of clients from individuals to large multi-national corporations. The nature of his work means that he is often involved in strategic decisions pre-action and many of the disputes he advises on are resolved outside of the traditional court process by arbitration, mediation or some other form of alternative dispute resolution.

His practice is increasingly international with parties based in jurisdictions including the United States, Brazil, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, the Caribbean, and Hong Kong, amongst others. Some highlights of his recent work include:

• Advising a private individual on a potential breach of trust claim against professional trustees based in the Channel Islands for a failure to consider the inheritance tax implications of a change in the structure of a trust.

• Acting for a large commodities importer in South America in an ongoing arbitration relating to the impact of international sanctions on the ability to make payment for goods delivered.

• Acting for liquidators of a company seeking relief from a former director for misfeasance under section 212 of the Insolvency Act 1986 in relation to an overdrawn director’s loan account and misapplication of government bounce back loans granted during the Covid-19 pandemic.

• Successfully representing clients in a dispute over several estates and multiple trusts where there were allegations of breach of trust, breach of fiduciary duties and a complex claim to trace assets and for unjust enrichment.

• Drafting proceedings in an unfair prejudice petition based on a breach of directors’ duties where the primary remedy sough was just and equitable winding up.

• Advising a client in the Bahamas in relation to a will dispute relating to an estate with property spread across multiple offshore jurisdictions worth well in excess of £100 million.

• Successfully resisting a summary judgment application in a partnership dispute where one of the issues was whether the partnership came into existence prior to the incorporation of a limited company and survived that incorporation for certain purposes.

• Advising on urgent injunctive relief in the context of a cross-border dispute with a claim issued against a client in a foreign state in breach of an exclusive jurisdiction clause and arbitration agreement.

• Appearing in the High Court in an application to rescind a winding up order in the High Court on the basis it had been wrongly made, opposite the Official Receiver and HMRC.

• Advising on and drafting trust documents to protect the assets of a party lacking mental capacity as part of the settlement of a dispute.

• Acting in an arbitration for an international client where there were allegations of undisclosed agency and sanctions evasion.

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

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

• Chancery Bar Association

• Commercial Bar Association

• R3 (Association of Business Recovery Professionals)

• INSOL

• Contentious Trusts Association

• Property Bar Association

• BA Jurisprudence, University of Oxford

• BPTC, City Law School