Adam Strong
About Adam
Adam specialises in dispute resolution in the insurance and reinsurance sector. Adam also has significant experience of commercial and investor/state international arbitration. He has acted in arbitrations under a number of the common institutional rules including ICSID, ICC, ARIAS, UNCITRAL and LCIA. Adam has higher rights of audience and his court experience includes a number of cases that have progressed to the Court of Appeal. He also has experience of asset preservation and freezing orders.
Adam’s insurance experience encompasses a number of classes of business including financial institutions, professional indemnity, product liability, warranty and indemnity, cyber, and commercial general liability. His reinsurance experience is equally extensive and, in particular, includes advising clients on disputes involving some of the more unusual hybrid reinsurance/capital markets products.
In addition to his contentious work Adam regularly advises his clients on the drafting of new product offerings, reinsurance treaty wordings and binding authority agreements. Adam’s international arbitration experience includes acting for investors in claims against sovereign states and defending sovereign states against investor claims. His commercial arbitration experience is wide ranging and has encompassed disputes in Europe, Africa, USA, Bermuda, the Middle East and SE Asia.
Adam is recommended as a key lawyer in the current edition of Legal 500 2024. He upholds an excellent reputation among clients who say that “Adam Strong is very solid” and that he “is singled out for his ability to run complex multi-track arbitrations”. Another observer in Legal 500 said that he has “a great combination of technical ability, commercial sensitivity and strategic acumen.”
As quoted from The Legal 500:
- ‘Incredibly strong offering.’
- ‘The team is practical and commercial, and they adjust their approach to meet the client’s needs.’
- ‘An excellent team, with particular expertise in cross-border international trade disputes.’
- ‘Adam Strong – his work reflects his surname. Adam is a standout technician, who is always prepared.’
- ‘Adam Strong brings genuine creativity to bear in conjunction with incisive analysis and first-class technical acumen and output.’
- ‘Adam Strong leads a well-resourced and focused team.’
- ‘Adam Strong is a real pleasure to work with. Very commercial and pragmatic.’
- ‘Adam Strong focuses on what is important. He has great contacts, particularly in the third-party funding and insurance sectors, which he can bring to bear.’
Adam is qualified in England and Wales.