Lawyers

Kendrah Potts

Kendrah Potts

Work Department

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

Position

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.

Career

Legal director, Mishcon de Reya LLP; Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution, Onside Law; Associate (Trainee), Freshfields

Languages

French; Spanish

Memberships

Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association

COMBAR

British Association for Sport and Law

Education

Oxford University (Law with French Law)

Mentions

London Bar

Commercial litigation

Leading junior3
Kendrah Potts – 4 New Square ‘Kendrah is a superb barrister – she is extremely personable and intelligent, grasps matters quickly, and offers the best advice possible. Her advocacy is impeccable and she is always prepared.’
London Bar

Fraud: civil

Leading junior3
Kendrah Potts –4 New Square 'A dedicated and resourceful barrister.'  
London Bar

Sport

Leading junior1
Kendrah Potts – 4 New Square ‘Kendrah is a very experienced sports lawyer, with a significant amount of experience in sports corruption cases in a number of different sports. This breadth of experience means that she is able to use experiences obtained in one sport and apply that to similar situations in another. Kendrah is very easy to work with, she is precise, consistent and her attention to detail is top-notch.’