Adam Kramer

Call 2004; BA Law (Oxon); LLM (McGill)
Email: akramer@3vb.com

Chambers and Partners: "Busier by the year, Kramer punches well above his call" (2012), "a lawyer with "an evident talent for assimilating complex numerical evidence"" (2012), "brings "great attention to detail" to his practice" (2012), "numerous fans in the solicitor world... won over by his "wit, intelligence and work ethic" ... happy to instruct him on a regular basis. His big-case experience belies his relatively recent call" (2011), "academically gifted" with "impressive turnaround time and impeccable drafting skills" (2010).

Legal 500: "One of the brightest junior barristers of his generation" (2011), "displays a gravitas way beyond his years of call" (2011).

Adam is instructed as a junior and sole advocate in £multi-million short and long commercial trials, appeals and arbitrations across the range of commercial law, but particularly in the five areas of banking, civil fraud, energy, insurance/reinsurance and professional negligence.

A former academic at Durham University and University College Oxford, Adam continues to write books and articles, give expert opinions on English law for foreign proceedings, and give talks in contract and tort law (especially contract damages and contractual interpretation), one of his articles being recently cited in the ground-breaking contract remoteness decision of the House of Lords in Transfield Shipping v Mercator Shipping, 'The Achilleas' [2009] AC 61 (on which he comments in (2009) 125 LQR 408) and in the Singapore Court of Appeal.

Scholarships and Prizes

• Alexander Maxwell Law Scholarship 2007
• Gray's Inn: Arden Scholar, Lee Essay Prize, Bedingfield Scholar
• McGill University: Institute of Comparative Law Essay Prize, Dean's Honour List Canadian Rhodes Scholars Foundation Scholarship
• Oxford University: 2nd highest in law finals (proxime accessit to the Martin Wronker Prize), Gibbs Prize for Law, Richards Butler Prize for International Trade Law, Martin Wronker Fund Award for Land Law
• University College, Oxford: Alan Urbach Memorial Prize for Jurisprudence, Peter Rowley Prize for Land Law

Professional Membership

• Society of Legal Scholars (SLS)
• Bar Pro Bono Unit
• Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR)
• Professional Negligence Bar Association (PNBA)
• Gray's Inn