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Adrian
Beltrami QC
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1989; QC 2008; MA (Cantab) LLM (Harvard)
E-mail: abeltrami@3vb.com |
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Adrian
Beltrami is to be appointed as Queen's Counsel and will practice
as such from 1 April 2008. He specialises in commercial litigation
and advisory work, including in particular banking, insolvency
and fraud. He has been consistently listed in the legal directories
(Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners) as a leading junior
in a number of practice areas and was recently described as
a "Titan among juniors" with a "caseload
studded with high-profile instructions" (Chambers
& Partners, 2007).
Adrian
has spent much of the last three years working on two major
banking actions. In JPMorgan v Springwell, he acted
on behalf of JPMorgan defending claims for circa US$700
million arising out of alleged investment advice on the sale
of emerging markets debt instruments to a private investment
company. Following a 6 month trial, judgment is awaited. In
Real Estate Opportunities Ltd v Aberdeen Asset Managers
and UBS, in which he acted on behalf of UBS and which
settled before trial, claims were made against a fund manager
and investment bank in connection with the collapse of the
split capital trust market.
Adrian
has wide advocacy experience and has acted in a number of
other complex financial cases, in England and in commonwealth
jurisdictions, including BCCI, Polly Peck, Grupo Torras,
Thyssen and TXU. He is a member of COMBAR, the
London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association and the Chancery
Bar Association.
Main
Practice Areas
Commercial
litigation
Banking and finance
Civil fraud, restitution and asset tracing
Restructuring and corporate insolvency
Professional negligence
Off-shore trust litigation
Legal
Directories
In
the Legal 500, Adrian is rated as a leading junior in banking
and finance (1st tier): "brilliant";
commercial
litigation (1st tier): "as complete a senior junior
as one could wish for";
civil fraud (1st tier): "an outstanding senior
junior"; insolvency
(3rd tier); and professional
negligence (3rd tier): "very good with paper work".
He is also referred to as having
trust expertise outside Lincoln's Inn: "hardworking,
effective and knowledgeable about the offshore world".
In
Chambers & Partners, he is rated as a leading junior in
banking
and finance (star category): "[his] first-rate
standard of work makes him someone to be scared of when you're
against him";
commercial dispute resolution (1st tier): "he
really gets his head down in major disputes and always comes
up with the goods"; and civil
fraud (1st tier): "a phenomenal brain that is
so absorbed by a case that he can see exactly where it is
going… both a good draftsman and excellent on his feet…
always a pleasure to work with" .
Cases
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BCCI
v Price Waterhouse
[1997] BCC 584; CA [1998] Lloyds Rep Bank 85 (banking/auditors'
negligence)
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BCCI
v Price Waterhouse [1997] 4 All ER 108 (banking/auditors'
negligence)
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BCCI
v Price Waterhouse [1998] Ch 84, [1998] BCC 511, [1997]
3 WLR 849, [1997] 4 All ER 781 (banking/auditors' negligence)
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BCCI
v Price Waterhouse [1999] BCC 351 (banking/auditors'
negligence)
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Electra
Private Equity Partners v KPMG [1998] PNLR 135; CA
[1999] Lloyds Rep PN 670 (auditors' negligence)
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Box
v Barclays Bank [1998] Lloyds Rep Bank 185 (banking/restitution)
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The
Honourable Society of the Middle Temple v Lloyds Bank
[1999] CLC 664, [1999] 1 All ER Comm 193 (banking/cheque
collection)
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Robertson
Research v ABG Times, November 1999 (wasted costs)
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Thyssen
v Thyssen (1999-2002) (undue influence/trusts)
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Re
Finelist (2001-2003) (auditors' negligence)
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Oil
& Minerals Development Corp v Sajjad
[2002] EWHC 1258 (Comm) (fraud/breach of fiduciary duty)
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Grupo
Torras v Al-Sabah [2002] JLR 243, [2003] JLR 188,
[2005] 2 AC 333, [2005] 2 WLR 904 (fraud/restitution/insolvency/trusts)
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BCCI
v Bank of America (2002-2004) (banking/insolvency)
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Paicolex
v Bachar (2001-2003) (fraud/breach of fiduciary duty)
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DP
Mann v Coutts [2004] 1 All ER Comm 1 (banking/ Lloyd's
underwriters)
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Re
TXU (2004) (insolvency)
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Burberry
v Kaye (2004) (fraud/freezing and disclosure orders)
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JP
Morgan Chase Bank v Springwell [2005] EWCA Civ 1692,
[2006] PNLR 28, [2006] EWHC 2755 (banking)
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Diamantis
Diamantides v JP Morgan Chase Bank
[2005] EWCA Civ 1612
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Royal
& Sun Alliance v Retail Brand [2004] EWHC 2139
(Comm) (insurance/forum)
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Re
Pegasus Insurance Co [2004-2005] CILR 138 (appointment
of liquidators)
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Attorney
General of the Cayman Islands v Cleaver [2006] 1 WLR
2245 (liquidators' fees/role of Attorney General)
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Real
Estate Opportunities Ltd v Aberdeen Asset Managers [2007]
Bus LR 971, [2007] 2 All ER 791 (financial services/disclosure
of information)
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Pfizer
Ltd v Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co [2006] EWHC 1424
(forum)
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Arthur
Chirkinian v Larcom Trustees [2006] EWHC 1917 (conduct
of trustee)
Awards
Entrance
Exhibition, Downing College, Cambridge
Open Scholarship, Downing College, Cambridge
Clive Parry Prize for International Law, University of Cambridge
George Long Prize for Roman Law, University of Cambridge
George Long Prize for Roman Law II, University of Cambridge
Wright Rogers Scholarship, University of Cambridge
Knox Fellowship, Harvard Law School
Hardwicke Scholarship, Lincoln's Inn
Denning Scholarship, Lincoln's Inn
Publications
Contributory
Negligence: A Viable Defence for Auditors [1990] LMCLQ
Banking Litigation (ed. Warne & Elliott) 1999, 2nd edition
2005
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