Brónagh Adams

Senior associate

Brónagh is a senior associate in the commercial dispute resolution team in London. She has experience in a broad range of complex commercial litigation, and her particular expertise is in financial services disputes and sanctions advisory work.

She has advised clients in relation to numerous financial product related claims alleging the mis-selling of swaps and foreign exchange derivatives, benchmark manipulation, the implementation of financial regulatory requirements, and the interpretation of contractual terms relating to financial instruments. Beyond financial services disputes, she has advised clients in relation to complex contractual and tort disputes, including advising on negligence claims against professional advisors, and breaches of contractual agreement for the supply of goods and services.

I enjoy working with clients to learn and understand what their objectives are and how the dispute is affecting their lives and/or business, so we can then work with them to ensure that we are advancing the litigation in a way to best meet those objectives.

Brónagh Adams, Senior associate

Brónagh has also assisted clients on compliance with UK and EU financial and trade sanctions, including advising on discrete issues, preparing compliance handbooks, and liaising with financial institutions and the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation on their behalf. Her work often contains an international element, particularly in relation to the overlap of various sanctions regimes and jurisdictions, and the operation of commercial contracts with international counterparties.

Recent work highlights

Financial regulation dispute

Acting for a group of individuals in a dispute arising from the application of financial regulatory laws by providers of those services.

Valuations negligence claim

Acting for a lender on a negligence claim relating to valuations provided which were relied on to provide lending.

Commercial Court dispute

Acting for two companies in a Commercial Court dispute relating to alleged oral variations of a contract.

Sanctions advisory booklet

Preparing an advisory booklet for a company’s employee use, to flag potential UK sanctions concerns and considerations for work in or relating to a variety of jurisdictions worldwide.

Sanctions compliance

Advising on financial sanctions compliance for dealing with new clients for a number of exporters.