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ADAM CHICHESTER-CLARK

CONTACT

13 & 14 Old Square
Lincoln’s Inn
London
WC2A 3UA
DX 52 London - Chancery Lane
T: +44 (0)20 7831 4445
F: +44 (0)20 7841 5825
E: clerks@13oldsquare.com


We are open between 8.30am
and 6.30pm Monday to Friday.


Outside of office hours please
call Justin Brown, Senior Clerk
on 0777 578 1995.


 

Year of Call: 2000
Education: Hons (Oxon); CPE
Email: acc@13oldsquare.com

Areas of practice
Adam’s practice includes all aspects of chancery and commercial law. He has particular experience and interest in the following areas: insolvency (corporate and personal), insurance and reinsurance, commercial fraud, company disputes and the sale and supply of goods and services (national and international).

Recently Adam has appeared in Koshy v DEG & GVDC [2006] EWHC 17, Z1 Ltd [2006] All ER (D) 188 (Nov) and Lexi Holdings Ltd v. Lugman and Others [2007] All ER (D) 238 (Jan), and in a number of insurance business transfer schemes, including the first scheme under the FSMA regime involving a Lloyds syndicate. His recent insolvency work has included matters involving asset recovery, misfeasance, director’s disqualifications and bankruptcy restrictions.

Prior to joining Chambers in 2004, he practised as an employed barrister at Clyde & Co. where he acted in numerous insurance and reinsurance matters often with an international dimension, including:

  • litigation arising out of the major insurance fraud trial, Sphere Drake v EIU and SCB (2002);

  • the first insurance business transfer scheme under the Financial Markets and Services Act 2000, WASA International & AGF Insurance Limited v WASA International (a Swedish Company) (2002) as well as numerous other insurance business transfer Schemes;

  • an insurance claim arising out of investors’ allegations of the misselling of split capital investment trusts;

  • the recovery of US$115 million on behalf of the Turkish Government and Italian contractors as a result of earthquake damage to the Ankara/Istanbul Highway in 1999, in the subsequent litigation in the High Court (KGM & Astaldi SPA v Generali Kent Sigorta & othrs (2002)) and in associated ICC arbitration proceedings in Zurich;

  • an arbitration for a Lloyds syndicate against reinsurers, in respect of claims on its catastrophe aviation cover;

  • an arbitration for a life insurer concerning a premium rebate overpayment by reinsurers amounting to £100 million.

Publications
Adam gives regular seminars on insurance and insolvency.

Memberships
Chancery Bar Association