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Adil has a broad commercial chancery practice. He has particular expertise in high-value, multi-jurisdictional commercial, civil fraud, offshore and trust disputes. He is recognised by the main directories (Legal 500, Chambers UK Bar, Chambers Global, Who’s Who Legal and Private Client Global Elite) as a leading junior in civil fraud, commercial, commercial chancery, offshore, trust and private client work. He has been described as “very strategic, commercially minded and pragmatic." "Adil is phenomenally smart and extremely astute on very complex court matters. He is excellent at cutting to the heart of issues and superb on black-letter law". Adil has also been recognised as "easy to work with and very responsive, he's commercially minded and very strategic and pragmatic in his approach. Great with clients, he uses commercial language with them rather than legal jargon. He's very good on his feet, very persuasive, and a barrister who fights really hard for his client." Adil was selected by Legal 500 as one of the top ten commercial barristers under eight years' call in both 2016 and 2017 and has since been ranked by Who's Who Legal as one of the three most highly regarded juniors at the English Bar for civil fraud work.

Adil acts both as sole counsel and junior counsel as part of a team of barristers. In addition to regular appearances in both the Chancery Division and the Commercial Court, Adil has appeared in the Court of Appeal, the UK Supreme Court and the Privy Council. He also has substantial experience appearing in, or assisting with, arbitrations and cases in other jurisdictions, including Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Jersey, Guernsey, the Bahamas, Singapore, the DIFC, Mauritius and Malta. He has developed a particular expertise in private international law issues. He is also one of the few juniors at the English Bar with experience in shareholder appraisal actions in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda.

In 2021, he was the lead junior for the defendant Trustees in Wong v Grand View PTC & others, believed to be one of the largest ever civil claims brought in a common law court. The trial lasted six months.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Adil qualified as a solicitor at Freshfields, where he was involved in a broad range of transactional and contentious work (including public and private M&A deals, IPOs, share buybacks, rights issues and corporate restructurings). He is therefore very familiar with "City" work.

During 2009 - 2010, Adil was appointed as one of the first judicial assistants to the Justices of the UK Supreme Court, where he worked for Lords Rodger and Brown.

Called 2010; Lincoln’s Inn; former solicitor at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (2005 – 2009; 2010 – 2011); UK Supreme Court judicial assistant to Lords Rodger and Brown (2009 – 2010).

French, Creole, Gujrati, Hindi, Urdu

COMBAR; Chancery Bar Association; Association of Partnership Practitioners.

Girton College, Cambridge (MA Law, first class; LLM, first class); Oxford Institute of Legal Practice (LPC, distinction).