Samuel Rabinowitz

Practice Areas

Barrister practising in commercial litigation, civil fraud and sports law. Member of Football Association’s National Serious Case Panel for 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons.

Recent cases include: 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; and various confidential sports law cases.

Confidential sports cases include acting in, and advising in relation to, various sporting disputes and investigations in both the High Court and arbitral settings including the London Court of International Arbitration and various independent arbitral panels convened by particular sporting bodies. In these contexts, acting for and against, among others, regulatory bodies, clubs, players/ athletes, club directors and agents in matters relating to football, rugby, cricket, Formula 1, boxing, cycling and e-sports.

Career

Called in 2016 (Lincoln’s Inn) and to the BVI Bar in 2021.

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-8th edns, 2020-24): 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).