Ranked in 6 Practice Areas
1

Band 1

Art and Cultural Property Law

London (Bar)

10 Years Ranked

1

Band 1

Commercial Dispute Resolution

London (Bar)

19 Years Ranked

2

Band 2

Banking & Finance

London (Bar)

22 Years Ranked

2

Band 2

Group Litigation

All Circuits

2 Years Ranked

2

Band 2

Professional Negligence

London (Bar)

21 Years Ranked

3

Band 3

Fraud: Civil

London (Bar)

16 Years Ranked

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Provided by Andrew Onslow KC

UK Bar

Practice Areas

Andrew Onslow KC specialises in Art & Cultural Property, Commercial litigation, Banking and Financial Services, Civil Fraud, Professional Negligence and International Arbitration.

Acted as leading counsel for Claimants in the multibillion pound claim against RBS, Fred Goodwin and others arising from RBS’s 2008 £12bn Rights Issue; acted for the Defendants in ENRC v Gerrard & Dechert LLP; SKAT v Solo Capital Partners (acting for lead defendants in US$2bn claim by Danish tax authorities); and £multi-million claim against Clydesdale Bank and its parent company, National Australia Bank; FSMA s.90A claims; successful at trial and on appeal in Byers v Saudi National Bank (formerly Samba Financial Group), and in two appeals to the Court of Appeal (Libyan Investment Authority v King (acting for LIA) in claim for fraud in relation to Maple Cross hotel development, and Strategic Technology Pts Ltd v Procurement Bureau of the Republic of China (acting for the appellant Taiwan), now the leading case on enforcement of a foreign judgment under Administration of Justice Act 1920).

Renowned for art disputes, appearing for the auction house in two of the leading cases this century (Thomson v Christie’s (trial and appeal 2004 and 2005); Thwaytes v Sotheby’s (trial 2014, judgment 2015).

Regularly sits as LCIA and ICC arbitrator; an Arbitrator to the Court of Arbitration for Art (CAfA). CAfA, a joint initiative of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute and Authentication in Art, has been founded to resolve art and cultural property disputes through mediation and arbitration. For further details, see www.cafa.world/cafa/.

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