Adrian Beltrami KC

Practice Areas

Adrian Beltrami KC was a Joint Head of Chambers at 3VB from 2016 to 2022. He specialises in commercial litigation and advisory work, both domestic and multinational. His litigation practice includes banking and financial services, commercial disputes, corporate insolvency and restructuring, professional negligence involving solicitors, accountants and valuers, civil fraud and asset tracing, restitution, off-shore trusts, forum disputes, injunctions, freezing and search orders and other interim remedies. He is also instructed in arbitrations in the same fields.

Adrian has wide advocacy experience and has acted in a number of complex financial cases, in England and in commonwealth jurisdictions, including JPMorgan Chase v Springwell, Real Estate Opportunities v Aberdeen Asset Managers, BCCI, Polly Peck, Grupo Torras, Thyssen and TXU. He acted in a string of trials involving financial institutions arising out of the 2008 financial crisis, such as Titan Steel Wheels v RBS, Camerata v Credit Suisse, Zaki v Credit Suisse, SNCB v UBS, Al Sulaiman v Credit Suisse and Torre v RBS. He recently acted as Leading Counsel in the major cases of The Libyan Investment Authority v Societe Generale and Tchenguiz v Grant Thornton. Having been instructed in Graiseley Properties v Barclays Bank plc and Marme v RBS, he remains involved in a number of cases concerning LIBOR and other benchmarks. He continues to be instructed across a broad commercial range but in particular in cases involving structured notes, funds and other investment products, asset allocation strategies, interest rate and other swaps, securitisations, loan syndications and valuations.