Chambers BAR awards 2010 Winner

Richard Adkins QC

Richard Adkins QC

Contact details:
3-4 South Square, Gray’s Inn, London WC1R 5HP.
Telephone +44 (0)20 7696 9900. Fax +44 (0)20 7696 9911. LDE 338 (Chancery Lane).
Email practicemanagers@southsquare.com.
Web www.southsquare.com
Professional career:
July 1982 Called to the Bar (Middle Temple)
April 1995 Queen’s Counsel
May 2000 Assistant Boundary Commissioner
Education:
MA (Oxon)
Areas of practice:

A business and financial law practice concerned in both domestic and international disputes with particular specialisations in corporate insolvency law and reconstructions, in takeover litigation and professional negligence cases. His practice also includes a substantial amount of advisory work in relation to banking, securities, debt discounting and factoring, chattel leasing (especially Aircraft leasing), debt issues, securitisations (including in 1998 the Aurora securitisation) and general corporate law.

Reconstructions in which he was involved include the successful reconstruction of the Heron group of companies with simultaneous schemes of arrangement in England, the Netherlands and the Netherland Antilles, the proposed Ionica scheme and the Barings settlement and, more recently, Guandong Enterprises in Hong Kong and other Far Eastern and Russian reconstructions. For 12 years he was instructed in the litigation arising out of the receivership of the Gomba companies