Adam is a Partner, Solicitor and Head of the Litigation/Dispute Resolution department at TV Edwards Solicitors LLP, who are ranked in the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.
He is an experienced, hardworking and tenacious litigator who has significant expertise dealing with high value and complex multi-jurisdictional commercial, civil and property litigation. Prior to joining TV Edwards, Adam spent several years working for well-known City and West-End law firms where he successfully acted on a number of high profile reported cases.
Adam’s cases range from small matters in the County Courts and other Tribunals, to multi-million pound disputes in the High Court and Court of Appeal. Through Adam’s quality of work and his ability to build lasting relationships, he is often instructed on multiple occasions by his clients, ensuring he always goes the extra mile to achieve the best possible outcome for them.
Adam will robustly fight his client’s corner and always look for the most cost effective and efficient resolution to a dispute, whilst having the client’s practical and commercial interest’s firmly in mind.
Expertise
Adam has a wide-ranging litigation practice encompassing the following areas:
- Chancery litigation, including civil fraud actions
- Injunctions – worldwide and domestic freezing injunctions, proprietary injunctions, interlocutory injunctions and committal proceedings
- Contractual disputes and misrepresentation claims
- Company disputes – shareholder, director and partnership disputes
- Professional negligence claims
- Debt recovery and insolvency litigation
- Property disputes – (domestic and international) including trusts and rights in property claims (‘TOLATA’), commercial and residential landlord & tenant (including possession, rent arrears and forfeiture proceedings), restrictive covenants, boundary disputes, business lease renewals under the 1954 Act and enfranchisement
- Construction and building disputes
- Probate disputes – (including claims under the Inheritance (provision for Family & Dependents Act) 1975)
- Defamation
- Alternative Dispute Resolution – (including Mediation and Arbitration)
- Enforcement action – foreign judgments, charging orders, orders for sale, bankruptcy petitions and winding-up petitions
Publications
Understanding Professional Negligence – was published by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry in its London Business Matters magazine (March/April 2025; Page 48).
“Strategies for London Businesses: Navigating the Complexities of Litigation” was published by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry in its London Business Matters magazine (January/February 2025; page 45).
“Is AI the future of commercial litigation” was published by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry in its London Business Matters magazine (March/April 2024; page 38).
”Breach of contract: a guide for UK businesses” was published by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry in its London Business Matters magazine (January/February 2024; page 51).
”Why is arbitration so popular in international disputes?” was published by the London International Disputes Week (LIDW) (January, 2024).
”Enforcing a foreign judgment in the UK” was published by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry in its London Business Matters magazine (November/December 2023; page 32).
”A guide to freezing injunctions” was published by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry in its London Business Matters magazine (September/October 2023; page 50).
‘‘Guide to recovering commercial debts” was published by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry in its London Business Matters magazine (March/April 2024; page 42).
“How to avoid civil fraud – a guide for business” was published by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry in its London Business Matters magazine (May/June 2024; page 44).
Recommendations
Recent Work
- Successfully obtaining a worldwide freezing injunction against several international companies involving a multi-million-pound investment fraud
- Obtaining judgment for £700,000 in a complex property dispute concerning the misappropriation of funds connected to the property relating to a famous musician
- Advising the applicant in their committal application resulting in the respondent being given a custodial sentence of 3 months, suspended for 12 months, by reason of his various breaches of a freezing order
- Successfully defending a large Chinese corporate client in relation to a several million-pound property dispute involving an alleged breach of a joint venture agreement
- Acting for a famous musician in successfully obtaining a £2.5 million freezing injunction against the Defendant
- Advising on the enforcement of an Iraqi judgment debt to the value of 3.2 million in the UK
- Settling a substantial misrepresentation and account of profits claim on favourable terms for a Saudi client relating to property acquisitions in excess of 20 million
- Advising on the merits of obtaining a worldwide freezing injunction relating to a Nigerian oil field dispute involving multiple judgments in various jurisdictions and concerning funds being held in an escrow account
- Advising on a £200,000 complex contractual Arbitration dispute involving a large London based housing association
- Winning a 4-day TOLATA trial achieving an order for sale and an order for 50% of the proceeds of sale and obtaining an adverse costs order for £25,000 against defendant that was later recovered
- Advising on obtaining a freezing injunction against the defendant’s two UK based assets worth more than 1.7 million and enforcing a Chinese judgment debt to the value of 3 million in the UK
- Advising in respect of an Account Freezing Order made by HMRC relating to suspected money laundering under POCA 2002
Reported Cases
- Kotecha v Kotecha [2018] EWHC 247 (Ch)
- Baljit Singh Bhandal v Kieran Wallace & Eamonn Richardson (Joint Special Liquidators of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Limited) [2017] WL 02774035
- Otuo v Brierley [2014] EWCA Civ 1804
- Otuo v Brierley [2014] EWCA Civ 1804Otuo v Brierley [2013] EWHC
Professional Qualifications and Memberships
- Solicitor of England & Wales
- London Solicitors Litigation Association
- Property Litigation Association
- Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association
- Member of London International Disputes Week (LIDW)