Kendrah Potts

Domestic and international commercial litigation and arbitration. Sports law. Costs.

Kendrah was called to the Bar after working as a solicitor for eleven years. She spent eight years at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where she gained broad experience of High Court litigation, international arbitration and multi-jurisdictional disputes. She was a Partner and Head of Litigation at Onside Law before joining Mishcon de Reya as a Legal Director.

Kendrah has a broad commercial practice, advising on disputes across a wide range of industries. Many of her cases involve allegations of fraudulent conduct and have an international aspect.

Kendrah is instructed to act on high profile disputes in the sports industry representing athletes, clubs, sports governing bodies and agents before domestic and international tribunals and courts. Kendrah represents clients in disciplinary proceedings (including charges of match-fixing, doping and bringing the game into disrepute), as well as on commercial disputes.

In 2014 Kendrah was Legal Counsel to the international commission established by the Union Cycliste Internationale to investigate doping and related allegations of corruption and mismanagement in cycling. She also undertook a secondment to the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games where she was the lead lawyer on sports integrity and anti-doping. Kendrah was appointed to the Challenge Panel advising the UK Government on its review of UK Anti-Doping in 2017.

Kendrah is on the arbitration and mediation panels of Sport Resolutions, the British Equestrian Federation and Union Cycliste Internationale. She is also an editor for LawInSport.

Oxford University (Law with French Law)