Overview

Practice Areas

Banking and Financial Services

International Disputes and Offshore Litigation

Forum Chambers has developed a strong reputation for handling complex litigation, arbitration, and advisory work beyond the UK. Our barristers bring extensive experience in leading offshore and international jurisdictions, including Australia, Bermuda, BVI, Cayman Islands, Cyprus, Dubai and the wider UAE, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Singapore, South Africa, and Switzerland.

Members of Forum Chambers are called to the Bar in several key jurisdictions and regularly appear before courts and tribunals in Australia, ADGM, Bermuda, BVI, Cayman Islands, DIFC, EU jurisdictions, and Singapore. Where necessary, we collaborate with trusted local counsel to deliver seamless cross-border solutions.

Our Expertise

We act in high-value, multi-jurisdictional disputes across the following areas:

International Arbitration
Banking and Finance (advisory, litigation, and arbitration)
Commercial Disputes (including shareholder and partnership disputes)
Civil Fraud and Asset Recovery
Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets
Construction and Infrastructure Disputes
Insolvency and Restructuring
Professional Negligence

Our clients include domestic and overseas law firms, sovereign wealth funds, banks and financial institutions, ultra- and high-net-worth individuals, royal families, insolvency practitioners, cryptocurrency exchanges, and multinational corporations.

Recent Highlights

Acting for a global group of claimants in a £50m margin trading dispute against a cryptocurrency exchange.
Advising liquidators on a worldwide freezing injunction valued at £80m.
Representing liquidators of a global commodities company in a $1.5bn negligence claim against its former auditors (DIFC) .
Acting for Grant Thornton in a $15m Ponzi scheme investigation spanning Malta, Canada, UAE, and the USA.
Representing a cryptocurrency exchange in a 7-day LCIA arbitration in Singapore.
Acting for a Swiss HNW family in a trust fraud case, tracing assets through Liechtenstein, Singapore, and India, and securing an anti-suit injunction to prevent forum shopping.
Obtaining recognition orders in Switzerland for the liquidators of Anglo Austrian Bank.
Advising the former director of Carillion in proceedings arising from its collapse (Qatar).
Acting on a $25m professional negligence claim involving an unregulated collective investment scheme across the UK, Cayman, and Kuwait.
Enforcing a Kuwaiti judgment in the English courts.
Representing a Maltese payment services provider in an $8m contractual dispute.