Richard Salter KC

Practice Areas

Richard’s practice covers all aspects of commercial litigation and arbitration, including civil fraud. He is equally at home making legal submissions before the highest courts as he is conducting long, fact-heavy trials and arbitrations.

Richard also has a particular speciality in matters relating to banking, (including digital assets and cryptocurrencies), corporate finance, financial services and insolvency, where he has a pre-eminent reputation both in court and in non-contentious advisory matters.

In addition to his extensive high-profile work in London, Richard is a member of the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and has appeared several times in the Commercial Court of the British Virgin Islands. He has been admitted pro hac vice for cases in the Bahamas, in the Cayman Islands and in the Isle of Man. He has been involved in substantial advisory and litigious matters (both assisting local lawyers in court and appearing himself before arbitral tribunals) in India, Hong Kong, Singapore and other common-law jurisdictions. Richard has also been involved in proceedings at the DIFC.

Richard sits as a Deputy High Court Judge in the QBD and the Commercial Court and as a Recorder. He also sits as an Arbitrator in ICC, LCIA and other types of arbitrations. He is a trustee of English Touring Opera chairman of the Comité d'Honneur and Honorary Counsel to The Musicians’ Company. He is currently Reader-Elect of the Inner Temple and will be Reader in 2024 and Treasurer in 2025.

He a Visiting Professor of financial law at Oxford