Adv Sparsh Garg > Serle Court > London, England > Barrister Profile

Serle Court
6 NEW SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN
LONDON
WC2A 3QS
England

Position

Sparsh is a chancery and commercial practitioner. He has a varied practice with a particular focus on trusts and estates litigation, company law, insolvency and commercial disputes.

Sparsh is regularly instructed as sole counsel, or as part of a larger counsel team, in both English and international litigation/arbitral proceedings. He has acted or advised in relation to disputes before the English High Court, as well as matters in Gibraltar (where he has been called ad hoc), The Bahamas, Bermuda, BVI, Cayman Islands, the DIFC, Guernsey and in LCIA/LMAA arbitrations.

Sparsh has also contributed to the latest chapter on “England” of International Trust Laws loose-leaf (with Bajul Shah and Owen Curry). Sparsh also worked in the Brussels office of a major international law firm, and was seconded to the litigation team of a leading international offshore firm where he worked on multiple complex and high-value contentious trusts matters. Further details of Sparsh’s experience are set out below.

Career

Year of Call: 2017.

Languages

Hindi (Native)

Memberships

The Chancery Bar Association

COMBAR

Advocate (formerly the Bar Pro Bono Unit)

The Society of Asian Lawyers

Education

LLB Law (First Class) – University College London

LLM Law – New York University School of Law

BPTC (Outstanding) – BPP University

Lawyer Rankings

London Bar > Private wealth and probate

(Rising stars)Ranked: Tier 1

Sparsh Garg – Serle Court ‘Sparsh is a hard worker who spots the issues very quickly and gives clear and practical advice about the matters involved.’

Serle Court  is a ‘very efficient and responsive set’, with a ‘large and highly regarded team specialising in contentious trusts and probate’. Jonathan Adkin KC is handling a complex multi-billion dollar probate application before the High Court relating to a foreign estate. ‘Formidable barrister’ Richard Wilson KC, known for ‘his exceptional ability to identify the core issues of a case’, and James Weale, who is ‘very responsive and robust in court’, are two key individuals who regularly represent clients before courts in all kind of contentious trust claim both at national and international level. ‘First-rate junior’ Sparsh Garg acted for the claimant in Morina v Scherbakova, a case of a grant of probate and declaration of succession regarding the estate and will trust of a deceased Russian businessman.

The English Bar Offshore > Trusts and private wealth

(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3

Sparsh Garg – Serle Court ‘Sparsh is intelligent, hard-working, an innovative thinker, and is able to produce work of the highest quality in short timescales. He is very personable and a good team player.’

The English Bar Offshore > Commercial disputes

(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3

Sparsh Garg – Serle Court ‘A diligent junior with a mastery of the facts.’