Adam R. Brown

Adam Brown focuses his practice on multijurisdictional investigations and has 20 years of experience advising on high-profile litigation, contentious insolvency, and compliance matters. The Legal 500 calls him "one of the finest solicitors around"; "sensationally bright and has phenomenal strategic insight."

Adam has particular experience in matters relating to insolvency claims, fraud, asset tracing, theft of confidential information, regulatory issues, and corruption. He is frequently called upon to advise on injunctive relief as well as on major investigations and governmental inquiries. He has acted on the United Kingdom's largest preference claim (Comet), first ever deferred prosecution agreement (involving the first indictment under s.7 UK Bribery Act), largest wrongful trading award (BHS, the highest profile UK retail failure of recent decades that established the new concept of trading misfeasance), and what are believed to be the two largest frauds ever perpetrated on the London AIM market. Adam also defended numerous G10 and emerging currency foreign exchange (FX) traders in the long-running multijurisdictional investigations into alleged manipulation of the FX markets.

Adam has spent time seconded to Goldman Sachs, working within the litigation and regulatory group.

For more than a decade Adam has worked with Ben Larkin, head of the London restructuring team, on the leading contentious insolvency matters of recent times: Legal 500 comments: "If you were putting together the dream team in this area of work then Adam and Ben would be the first names on the list."