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Frederick Alliott is a commercial barrister specialising in complex, high-value commercial litigation and arbitration.

His broad practice has a particular focus on insurance and reinsurance, civil fraud, energy, shipping and commodities, aviation, international trade and professional negligence. He is used to appearing on his own (very often against more senior counsel, including silks), as well as working as part of large multi-counsel teams.

Fred is recognised by The Legal 500 in a number of categories – Commercial Litigation, Insurance, Civil Fraud and Aviation.

To give a flavour of his work: Fred is currently instructed in the largest piece of insurance litigation in the market (namely the ‘Russian Aviation’ litigation), heard by the Commercial Court in 2024/2025 (and with a further trial date set for late 2026). He has also recently been involved in, amongst other things: a billion-dollar s.67 arbitration appeal relating to a gas supply contract which went to the Court of Appeal; two high-value arbitrations concerning, respectively, political risk and political violence insurance; two sets of related proceedings in arbitration and in the Admiralty Court relating to the ‘Maersk Honam’ casualty (the largest containership general average loss in history); and a c.€50 million dispute concerning the breach of an oil supply contract, in which Fred acted alone against an established silk.

Fred is used to acting in international arbitrations, both ad hoc and under a variety of rules (including LCIA, ICC, SCC, LMAA, GAFTA and FOSFA) as well as in court in aid of arbitral proceedings and concerning the enforcement, challenge or appeal of arbitration awards.

Fred is frequently instructed in cases involving allegations of dishonesty, corruption and other serious misconduct. He is developing a reputation as being highly experienced in this area: recent led work has included a number of multi-million-dollar fraud actions, two of which resulted in lengthy commercial court trials, as well as ongoing $1 billion worldwide freezing order proceedings (with associated jurisdictional challenge).

Fred is delighted to accept instructions in any type of commercial dispute, whether alone or being led.