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I specialise in mainstream commercial litigation. I undertake a wide range of dispute work acting for major corporate, local authority, healthcare and insurance clients.
I lead an area with a unique blend of lawyers who have a superb reputation for combining technical excellence with a clear, commercial focus. We regularly act on some of the largest and most challenging of matters and are always passionate about delivering the best advice and solutions to our clients.
I have a strong track record of success in litigation and arbitration, together with all forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), including expert determination, negotiation and mediation.
I act for clients in a wide range of fields and have considerable experience of advising clients in a range of sectors, including local and central government, health, housing, and independent companies.
Adam Kendall is an excellent practitioner. He brings his commercial nous into the sector and approaches his cases in an intelligent and analytical way. His client care is excellent and is suitably tough in dealing with the regulator. Always gives clients good, practical advice. Fights winnable cases hard and will compromise where necessary.
I also advise on a broad spectrum of criminal regulatory matters including those relating to health and safety; fire safety standards; environmental prosecutions and waste.
We have teams and specialist lawyers who advise across all areas including:
- Collective actions and group litigation
- Contractual disputes and disputes involving tortious breaches including negligence
- Public and administrative law matters (judicial reviews and statutory challenges)
- Procurement (both advisory and challenges)
- State aid and competition law issues
- Professional disciplinary regulatory
- Insurance; liability claims and costs
- Employment, Pensions and Immigration
- Healthcare regulatory and due diligence
- Health & Safety and Criminal Regulatory and Enforcement
- Reputational Management; intellectual property and defamation
- Information Law; Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information
- Insolvency matters
- Investigations, inquiries and compliance (including fraud and bribery)
Adam Kendall has worked well with us to understand our needs and has given us a high level of confidence in what he and the team can deliver.
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Career Highlights
- Acting for a major UK brewer in a multi-million pound professional negligence claim over advice and consultancy services provided by a firm instructed to design and implement a new supply chain strategy for their UK business. This was a high profile case in the Commercial Court but settled following two separate days of mediation.
- Acting for a leading utility provider on a multi-million pound contractual dispute with a supplier of defective gas meters.
- Acting for a Metropolitan Borough Council in a £1.2m dispute over the use of a disused quarry for waste disposal purposes. The claim concerns the Council's obligations pursuant to a licence governing the deposit of waste materials at the quarry and restoration of the land afterwards.
- Acting for an IT consultancy company in a dispute with insurers over policy coverage following a substantial theft of computer hardware/software from their premises. The dispute led to a 6 day trial and involved complex allegations of material non-disclosure and a claim that fraudulent invoices were used in order to exaggerate the claim.
- Acting for the Professional Indemnity Insurers of an Independent Financial Advisor in a company’s £1.8m claim for alleged negligent advice not to wind up a Final Salary Scheme. The claim was successfully settled at mediation.
- Acting for an international producer and supplier of materials, products and services principally in the construction industry in a US$1.7m dispute with its insurers following a major kiln failure in Jamaica. The dispute centred around the applicability of a number of policy exclusions and particularly whether the damage was as a result of defective design or latent defect and/or operational error by the employees working in the kiln. The dispute was dealt with by way of an ad-hoc arbitration.
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Adam Kendall and Louise Mansfield have supported us for a number of years and grown a deep understanding of our needs within our sector and how they can assist and advise on matters raised.
Adam's areas of expertise
- NHS
- Independent Health
- Social Care
- Local Government
- Insurance
- Energy
- Housing & Regeneration
- Manufacturing
- Infrastructure
- Higher Education
- Culture & Heritage
- Criminal Regulatory
- Commercial Dispute Resolution
- Investigations & Inquiries
- Reputation Management
- Governance, Risk & Compliance
- Major Incidents