Adrian de Froment

Adrian has a broad commercial chancery practice, with a particular focus on commercial disputes, intellectual property and civil fraud. Much of Adrian's work also has an international or cross-border element to it.

He has substantial experience of acting in large, complex litigation having been instructed as part of the team acting for one of the defendants in Wong v Grand View Private Trust Company Limited and ors, one of the highest value trust cases to have been litigated, for the claimants in Mariana v BHP, the very large group action arising from the Fundão Dam environmental disaster in Brazil, and for the defendants in claims arising out of the £12 billion RBS rights issue.

Adrian regularly appears unled in the High Court, including recently acting for a successful claimant in UK enforcement proceedings following judgment abroad for $135 million and as sole counsel for the successful defendants in INVISTA v Botes and ors [2019] EWHC 58 (Ch); [2019] 1 WLUK 170, a 7-day trial before Birss J of claims relating to alleged breaches of confidence by research scientists. He also has experience obtaining interim relief, including freezing relief.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Adrian gained a PhD in evolutionary biology from Princeton University and as a former scientist he is well placed to deal with scientific and quantitative issues that arise in litigation.

Called 2013, Middle Temple.

French

Chancery Bar Association; COMBAR

New College, University of Oxford (BA Biological Sciences – First class); Princeton University (PhD Evolutionary Biology); City University Law School (GDL – distinction; BPTC – outstanding)