JUNIOR PROFILE

Samuel Rabinowitz

UK Bar 2026

Fountain Court Chambers

Ranked in 2 practice areas

Commercial Dispute Resolution

London (Bar)

2 years ranked

Fraud: Civil

London (Bar)

2 years ranked

About

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UK Bar

Practice Areas

Barrister practising in commercial litigation, civil fraud and sports law.

Cases include: various confidential sports law cases; HRH Princess Deema Bint Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud v Gibbs; Care Tree v Bell; Terre Neuve v Yewdale; Wilton Trustees (IoM) Ltd v AFS Trustee Ltd (in the BVI Commercial Court); Wellcourt Investments Group SA v Sussman; ENRC v Dechert; CNM Estates (Tolworth Tower) Ltd v VeCREF I SARL; J Jeffery (Builder) Limited v Santander; Municipality of Mariana v BHP Billiton plc (the Fundão Dam Litigation); Katara v Guez..

Confidential sports cases include disputes and investigations in both the High Court and arbitral settings including the London Court of International Arbitration, ICC International Court of Arbitration and various independent arbitral panels convened by particular sporting bodies. Such sports cases involve a wide range of matters including contractual disputes, fraud claims (and/or allegations of other wrongdoing), regulatory investigations and/or advisory work, and employment disputes, arising in the sports of football, rugby, cricket, tennis, Formula 1, boxing, cycling and e-sports, and including acting for and/or against:

• In football: Premier League and EFL clubs, managers, players and directors; and national governing bodies in three countries;

• In other sports: team owners, directors, players/ athletes, agents and governing bodies;

• Commercial actors such as sponsors, tournament organisers and media rights owners/ distributors.

Career

Called in 2016 (Lincoln’s Inn).

Panel member on sporting disciplinary bodies: Football Association National Serious Case Panel (2023-2025); Western District Cricket Union of Scotland Disciplinary and Appeals Panel (2022).

Judicial Assistant at the Commercial Court (High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division), January – July 2018.

Professional Memberships

COMBAR (Member of Junior COMBAR Executive Committee), Law in Sport, British Association for Sport and Law; LCLCBA, Young Fraud Lawyers Association.

Publications

Contributor to The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations (GIR, 4th-9th edns, 2020-25): chapter on “Privilege: The UK Perspective”, with Tamara Oppenheimer KC and Rebecca Loveridge.

Contributing writer of articles for Law in Sport.

Personal

BA in History, Oxford University (Balliol College): First Class (2012).

Senior Status BA in Jurisprudence, Oxford University (Jesus College): First Class (2015).

BPTC, City Law School: Outstanding (2016).

Chambers Review

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UK Bar

Fraud: Civil - London (Bar)

Up and Coming

Individual Editorial

Samuel Rabinowitz has a growing reputation as a strong junior in large, long-running civil fraud cases in the Commercial Court. He has experience on multi-jurisdictional cases and has acted as sole counsel before the High Court.

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Strengths

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Samuel Rabinowitz is a super person to work with. He is hard-working and unbelievably smart. He produces very high-quality written work, and his legal analysis is excellent.
Commercial Dispute ResolutionUK Bar
Samuel Rabinowitz is very hardworking and has excellent attention to detail.
Commercial Dispute ResolutionUK Bar
Samuel is one of the hardest-working barristers at the Bar. He is very thorough and gets into the details of the case. His written work is excellent, and he is very user-friendly and hands-on.
Commercial Dispute ResolutionUK Bar
His ability to assimilate detail at high speed is unsurpassed. He has the knack of presenting complicated transactions in a simple, easy-to-understand way.
Fraud: CivilUK Bar