Saaman Pourghadiri

Practice Areas

Saaman Pourghadiri has a diverse domestic and international practice focusing on commercial disputes, civil fraud, pensions, professional negligence and offshore matters. His work in the English courts often involves conflict of law, jurisdiction or foreign law issues.

Saaman is a confident and persuasive advocate who is recognised by the legal directories as “intellectually first rate, practical and hard-working and an excellent team player”. He is comfortable working in teams or as sole counsel and is often instructed to act unled against silks, being seen as “more than a match for more senior counsel”.

Recent highlights include:

• appearing unled against a silk in the Court of Appeal in Bacci v Green [2023] 2 WLR 681 with the Court commending his “able submissions”,

• appearing unled against a silk to successfully resist an injunction application in an economic tort case Amob v Smith-Hughes [2022] I.R.L.R. 975;

• appearing in the Court of Appeal (on appeal from the Commercial Court) resisting an application for an anti-suit injunction (AIG v Wood [2023] 1 All E.R. (Comm) 381);

• appearing in the Gibraltar Court of Appeal successfully striking out claims alleging fraud (2023/CGA/009);

• appearing in the Chancery Division successfully resisting an attempt to strike out a wide-ranging fraud claim in Lodgeshine v SBHMC [2022] EWHC 2030 (Ch).

Professional Memberships

Combar, Financials Services Lawyers Association, Association of Pension Lawyers, Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association, Chancery Bar Association