Adam is a talented foreign qualified lawyer (New Zealand) with significant experience in complex commercial litigation and arbitration.
Adam has substantial expertise in cross-border disputes, international sanctions, high value trust disputes, complex contract claims and financial services litigation. He has acted for state and government entities, large corporates and high-net-worth individuals and families.
Prior to joining Gresham in October 2024, Adam was a Senior Lawyer in the litigation and contentious regulatory team of a major UK-based financial institution, where he specialised in complex litigation, internal investigations and economic crime matters. Before that, Adam was a barrister and solicitor at a leading specialist litigation firm in New Zealand, where he appeared in Courts and arbitration at all levels.
Adam’s representative experience includes:
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Acting for a trust company in a jurisdictional challenge to a cross-border conspiracy claim alleging an ongoing US$125 million fraud in Kentucky, the British Virgin Islands, the UK, Australia and New Zealand (Kea Investments Ltd v Wikeley Family Trustee Ltd [2023] NZHC 466).
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Acting for a major Australasian energy company in a high-value arbitration concerning contractual liability for carbon emissions trading credits.
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Acting for a statutory trustee in applications for trustee directions, disclosure of trust information, freezing orders and in relating to the contentious court-ordered reallocation of the profits of a closely held agricultural business (Kain v Public Trust [2021] NZCA 685, (2021) 5 NZTR 31-020).
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Acting for the owners of a tower apartment building in a successful professional negligence claim against their former litigation solicitors (Body Corporate 207624 v Grimshaw & Co [2023] NZHC 979).
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Acting for the trustees of a high-net-worth family trust defending claims by beneficiaries for removal of the trustees and seeking capital distributions.
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Acting for a large property development company defending equitable joint venture, constructive trust and contract claims brought by a financial advisory firm following the abandonment of a proposed syndication of a commercial and residential subdivision project.
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Acting for a property investment company seeking the imposition of a constructive trust and an account arising from a breach of confidence by its former CEO, and acting on associated professional negligence claims against the company’s former solicitors.