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Tom Adam KC

Tom Adam KC

Position

Tom Adam KC is well-known as a leading advocate and adviser in a broad range of significant and high value commercial work. Recent cases include acting for the successful claimant in a hard-fought two week arbitration between well-known oligarchs; bringing a £120m claim for Northern Rock against its former solicitors; a successful appeal (having not acted below) for the Candy brothers against a freezing order (Holyoake v Candy [2017] 2 All ER (Comm) 513); and defending a firm of solicitors accused of fraudulent conspiracy to procure false evidence (Accident Exchange v McLean & Others [2018] EWHC (Comm) 23).

Career

Year of Call: 1991

Year of Silk: 2008

Education

Trinity College, Cambridge; BA 1987 (Lizette Bentwich Prize).

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