Rupert Reed KC

Practice Areas

Rupert took silk in 2014, having won 'Chancery Junior of the Year' at the Chambers Bar Awards in 2013. Since 2014, he has been consistently identified as a leader of the Bar across various fields in Chambers Global, Chambers UK Bar, Legal 500 and other directories.

He has a broad commercial and financial dispute practice, with a focus on agreements arising out of property investment, finance, development, and management, as well as wider fraud, banking, and shareholder disputes. In his UK practice, he has recently led trial teams in one of the Lawyer’s ‘Top 20’ cases in each of 2022 (Aurium) and 2023 (Asturion).

His practice in England is primarily in the Commercial Court and Chancery Division of the High Court and the Court of Appeal. He has a substantial overseas practice before arbitral tribunals and in the courts of offshore jurisdictions, in particular, the Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC) Courts. His international work commonly involves issues as to interim injunctions, jurisdiction, applicable law and cross-border enforcement.

He co-edits the DIFC Courts Practice, now in its Second Edition, the leading text-book on DIFC substantive and procedural law, to which a number of members of Chambers have contributed. In his foreword, the Chief Justice of the DIFC Courts generously commented of the editors that ‘few have made as great a contribution to the development of the laws and rules’.

Rupert also regularly sits as an arbitrator in LCIA, DIAC and ICC arbitrations and sits as a member of the DIAC Court.