Luke Pardey

Ranked in 2 Practice Areas

Band 5

Commercial and Corporate Litigation

London (Firms)

2 Years Ranked

Band 5

Fraud: Civil

UK-wide

1 Years Ranked

Ranked in Guides

Global 2025

Europe 2025

About

Provided by Luke Pardey

Practice Areas

Luke Pardey is a specialist commercial litigator. Based in London, he has almost two decades of experience advising clients on their most complex and high-stakes mandates.

Luke advises on all aspects of complex commercial dispute resolution. He is highly regarded for his work on contractual disputes, M&A and corporate disputes, fraud and asset tracing exercises, banking litigation and contentious insolvency matters. He has acted on some of the most significant cases going through the courts in recent years.

Luke has extensive experience advising clients in, and with disputes touching on, the TMT sector.

Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Fraud: Civil - UK-wide

Band 5

Individual Editorial

Luke Pardey is a well-regarded litigator who leads on multiple fraud mandates for some of the firm's most high-profile clients.

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Commercial and Corporate Litigation - London (Firms)

Band 5

Individual Editorial

Luke Pardey is adept at representing both claimants and defendants in large commercial disputes. He has notable experience acting on shareholder disputes and contractual disputes.

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Strengths

Provided by Chambers

He is strategic, ceaselessly creative and technically superb. Any client would be lucky to have Luke fight their corner.

Fraud: Civil respondent
Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

In a difficult situation, you want Luke on your side. He sees things that others miss, he's a fierce competitor and he knows how to win.

Fraud: Civil respondent
Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Luke is a really talented litigator who is on top of the factual and legal issues in the action. He's a joy to work with.

Fraud: Civil respondent
Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

His level of service is impeccable. He understands litigation is stressful and uncertain and knows that there is a human element to running a case.

Commercial and Corporate Litigation respondent
Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Luke is able to spot - and exploit to devastating effect - the weakness in his opponent's case.

Commercial and Corporate Litigation respondent
Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Luke developed and executed a strategy to help me achieve my objectives. There was nothing pedestrian about his approach. He was more than ten steps ahead of the other side at all points.

Commercial and Corporate Litigation respondent
Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Luke is a top-draw litigator. He combines a razor sharp intelligence and intricate knowledge of the law with an ability to think strategically about the complex issues which arise in litigation.