Adrian Parkhouse

Practice Areas

Adrian advises an unusually broad spectrum of clients on diverse claims. As a partner in the Commercial Litigation team, he brings a breadth of experience to advising clients with primarily commercial disputes. He is also recognised as one of the country's leading art lawyers.

Adrian heads the firm's Commercial Litigation team and is co-chair of its Art Group.

His core skills are analysis of a client's case, understanding their commercial or personal objectives and building a team to use available resolution techniques to achieve the best outcome.

In recent years his practice has revolved around clients in the financial, investment and banking sectors and clients in the world of art and heritage. The legal issues generated by both are similar: contractual analysis, negligence, fraud, valuing loss and evidential matters. The industry knowledge required differs but the opportunity to understand the client's business remains a facet of the litigator's life that appeals.