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Adam Solomon KC

Adam Solomon KC

Silk: 2018 | Call: 1998

King's Counsel

"Adam is my preferred employment KC. He is an outstanding barrister and an excellent negotiator. He is always enthusiastic about cases and is brilliantly supportive. Clients are invariably extremely impressed with him but also get on very well with him."

Chambers & Partners 2024

"A forceful advocate who can stand up to robust challenges."

Legal 500 2024

"Adam has great tactical awareness. His advocacy is of the highest quality - succinct and good on his feet."

Legal 500

"He is wonderfully practical and commercial and remarkably impressive in court."

Chambers & Partners

"He is attentive to his instructing solicitor and he comes up with speedy solutions to complex problems. His work ethic is incredible."

Chambers & Partners

"An excellent advocate and very good at identifying the mood of the court." 

Chambers & Partners

"Adam is perfect for commercial claims where clients want to see their interests vigorously defended."

Chambers & Partners

“When chaos reigns, Adam brings order, offering calmness, clarity and insight. He is a go-to silk for restrictive covenant injunctions and major High Court litigation, and his advocacy is tactically brilliant, robust and clear”

Legal 500

“He is very thorough in his preparation. He plans the structure of his advocacy well. He is calm but can be forceful when needed.”

Legal 500

"A great advocate, who is punchy and charming. His paperwork is great and he's a pleasure to work with."

Chambers & Partners

"He is tenacious, he is hard-working, he gets to the bottom of the issues and he gets the points across suitably forcefully." "He is very experienced, he is great fun to work with, he puts people at their ease." "He's an excellent and safe pair of hands, and he is is very commercially astute."

Chambers & Partners

"He's excellent and delightful." "Approachable and forensic in his analysis of legal issues."

Chambers & Partners

"Adam is a very energetic practitioner, with a positive and bullish approach. He is excellent in court, very good with clients, and always willing to discuss matters offline in a collaborative way that is very helpful."

Legal 500

"He is commercial minded and is able to come up with incredible strategies for litigation matters."

Legal 500

"His written work is well presented balancing being thorough with being clear. In court his advocacy is calm, firm and persuasive."

Legal 500

"An excellent all-rounder, who combines flair in the courtroom with diligence and perseverance.” “A rising star.”

Chambers & Partners

Adam Solomon KC

"Adam is my preferred employment KC. He is an outstanding barrister and an excellent negotiator. He is always enthusiastic about cases and is brilliantly supportive. Clients are invariably extremely impressed with him but also get on very well with him."

Chambers & Partners 2024

"A forceful advocate who can stand up to robust challenges."

Legal 500 2024

"Adam has great tactical awareness. His advocacy is of the highest quality - succinct and good on his feet."

Legal 500

"He is wonderfully practical and commercial and remarkably impressive in court."

Chambers & Partners

"He is attentive to his instructing solicitor and he comes up with speedy solutions to complex problems. His work ethic is incredible."

Chambers & Partners

"An excellent advocate and very good at identifying the mood of the court." 

Chambers & Partners

"Adam is perfect for commercial claims where clients want to see their interests vigorously defended."

Chambers & Partners

“When chaos reigns, Adam brings order, offering calmness, clarity and insight. He is a go-to silk for restrictive covenant injunctions and major High Court litigation, and his advocacy is tactically brilliant, robust and clear”

Legal 500

“He is very thorough in his preparation. He plans the structure of his advocacy well. He is calm but can be forceful when needed.”

Legal 500

"A great advocate, who is punchy and charming. His paperwork is great and he's a pleasure to work with."

Chambers & Partners

"He is tenacious, he is hard-working, he gets to the bottom of the issues and he gets the points across suitably forcefully." "He is very experienced, he is great fun to work with, he puts people at their ease." "He's an excellent and safe pair of hands, and he is is very commercially astute."

Chambers & Partners

"He's excellent and delightful." "Approachable and forensic in his analysis of legal issues."

Chambers & Partners

"Adam is a very energetic practitioner, with a positive and bullish approach. He is excellent in court, very good with clients, and always willing to discuss matters offline in a collaborative way that is very helpful."

Legal 500

"He is commercial minded and is able to come up with incredible strategies for litigation matters."

Legal 500

"His written work is well presented balancing being thorough with being clear. In court his advocacy is calm, firm and persuasive."

Legal 500

"An excellent all-rounder, who combines flair in the courtroom with diligence and perseverance.” “A rising star.”

Chambers & Partners

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A forceful advocate who can stand up to robust challenges.” (Legal 500 2024)

Adam has great tactical awareness. His advocacy is of the highest quality – succinct and good on his feet.” (Legal 500 2024)

“He’s excellent and delightful.” “A great advocate, who is punchy and charming.” (Chambers & Partners 2022)

Adam is a commercially minded trial advocate, who has appeared as lead counsel at every level, from the Commercial Court and King’s Bench Division to the Court of Appeal, Privy Council and Supreme Court. He is recognised in the directories in respect of all his practice areas. He is recommended in Chambers & Partners as a leading KC for Commercial Dispute Resolution, Employment and Professional Discipline, and in Legal 500 for Offshore, Employment and Professional Disciplinary and Regulatory Law. Chambers & Partners describes him as “An excellent all-rounder, who combines flair in the courtroom with diligence and perseverance.” 

Adam has been instructed in some of the most significant recent cases, including:

  • appearing in the Supreme Court for the successful party in Egon Zehnder v Tillman (2019), the first employment competition case to reach the highest appellate level in over 100 years;
  • intervening in the Supreme Court for the General Pharmaceutical Council in the case of Michalak (2017), which determined the proper forum for liability of regulators in respect of discriminatory acts;
  • appearing for the successful appellant in the Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, in Gany Holdings (2020), concerning whether a new BVI statute was of retrospective effect;
  • appearing for the successful respondent in the Privy Council in Adamas v Cheung, concerning variation of contract.

Adam was admitted to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in 2007 and since then, as a junior and now as silk, has regularly appeared in numerous cases in the Eastern Caribbean courts. He has advised and appeared on numerous injunctive applications (for applicants and respondents) and has acted (successfully) in lengthy trial proceedings. He has appeared in various first instance courts (including but not limited to the BVI Commercial Court) and before the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal. The majority of his Caribbean work involves offshore companies, investment funds or trusts, and often involves cross-border aspects of private international law. He has been admitted to the Bar of the BVI (without restriction) and St Kitts and Nevis (for specific cases). He also regularly advises and appears in arbitrations in Hong Kong and Singapore.

Adam has served as a Board Member of the Bar Standards Board (BSB) since 2015 and, before that, for over a decade, Adam was a Trustee and Director of Law for All, a charity committed to providing access to justice to all.

Recent legal directory comments include the following:

  • “Adam is perfect for commercial claims where clients want to see their interests vigorously defended.”
  • “He is wonderfully practical and commercial and remarkably impressive in court.”
  • “He is attentive to his instructing solicitor and he comes up with speedy solutions to complex problems. His work ethic is incredible.”
  • “An excellent advocate and very good at identifying the mood of the court.” 
  • “When chaos reigns, Adam brings order, offering calmness, clarity and insight. He is a go-to silk for restrictive covenant injunctions and major High Court litigation, and his advocacy is tactically brilliant, robust and clear”
  • “He is very thorough in his preparation. He plans the structure of his advocacy well. He is calm but can be forceful when needed.
  • “He is considered excellent on High Court restrictive covenant injunctions”
  • “He is tenacious, he is hard-working, he gets to the bottom of the issues and he gets the points across suitably forcefully.”
  • “He is very experienced, he is great fun to work with, he puts people at their ease.”
  • “He’s an excellent and safe pair of hands, and he is very commercially astute.”
  • “His arguments are punchy and he is a real fighter”
  • “He chomps through the work with endless enthusiasm”
  • “A positive and pragmatic advocate, who is excellent with clients and on his feet”
  • “Always looks to get the best possible result for the client, and never distances himself from problems”
  • “He has a very can-do attitude”
  • “Handles all aspects of employment and commercial litigation”, and is “client friendly, extremely helpful and a witty advocate”
  • “Upbeat can-do attitude”, “very tenacious and will fight for the results it needs”
  • “Masters his brief well and his highly tenacious”
  • “He punches holes in the other side’s position…”
  • “Combines intelligence with humour, show great perseverance and manages to charm clients along the way”
  • “He is so hard-working and dedicated that even if he is super-busy he will always find a way of helping you”

 

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