Farhaz Khan KC

Practice Areas

Farhaz is a leading Silk at the commercial bar. He receives instructions in complex and high-profile commercial court litigation, international arbitration and regulatory proceedings, with a focus on civil fraud, banking, financial services, and pensions. He is widely recognised as one of the leading Silks at the Bar with genuine cross-over expertise in commercial court litigation and financial services regulation, and his cases often have both elements.

Farhaz regularly appears as Counsel in international arbitration (most recently under LCIA, SIAC, ICC and AAA rules) and receives arbitrator appointments (most recently in an ICC energy related arbitration and an ad hoc funder dispute). In June 2024, he was appointed to the Panel of International Arbitrators by the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB).

Farhaz’s cases take him into different areas of law, and he has broad experience in insurance law, company law, corporate insolvency, partnership, shareholder disputes, sanctions, global investigations and ‘white collar’ crime, trusts law, employment law, Judicial Review / public law, funds and private equity, energy and commodities, media and technology, and sports law. Farhaz has experience as an independent KC conducting internal investigations.

Farhaz regularly appears in the commercial courts of offshore jurisdictions such as the DIFC and ADGM courts and has acted as a legal expert in foreign proceedings, including in Europe and the US.

Farhaz is a founding committee member and former Secretary of the Financial Services Lawyers Association. He acts as consultant for the OECD on access to justice for businesses projects in emerging market economies.