Adam van Schaik

Adam has significant experience in a broad range of insurance and reinsurance work, including marine, liability, energy, aviation, directors and officers, business interruption, property and casualty and construction. Adam also has experience of coverholder/broking disputes and of the Lloyd’s market. Recent matters include:

• Acted in respect of a circa £160 million aviation insurance and reinsurance claim, led by James Drake KC.
• Advised in respect of insurance claims relating to a multi-million pound investigation into wrongful financial trading.
• Acted in relation to the closure of a captive reinsurer.
• Acted in a dispute between a coverholder and insurer in respect of profit commissions owed to sub-coverholders.
• Assisted in an arbitration, including a two-day hearing, concerning Lloyd’s managing agent negligence.
• Advised in a number of cases relating to business interruption loss.
• Advised in relation to a complex notification of claim issue regarding an international corporation and high-net-worth owner in the context of allegations of corruption and fraud.
• Advised in relation to a number of substantial fire damage claims in respect of fair presentation of risk and breach of policy conditions.
• Advised in relation to the application of the Fires Prevention (Metropolis Act) 1774.
• Acted in a number of county court claims relating to diminution in value of damaged vehicles.
• Assisted in a multi-million-pound Bermuda Form arbitration concerning an insurance claim by an ecclesiastical institution relating to purported cases of abuse.
• Assisted in a multi-million-pound dispute, including an interlocutory hearing in the High Court, concerning a claim under an aircraft hull and spares policy relating to a private jet.
• Assisted in a dispute concerning an allegedly fraudulent claim on an investment managers insurance policy by a well-known hedge fund.
• Assisted in a number of disputes concerning non-appearance insurance in the context of Covid-19 and the cancellation of large events.

Adam has significant experience in a broad range of international arbitration. Recent matters include:

• Acting in a multi-million pound international commodities arbitration with Michael Holmes KC, relating to collateral management.
• Assisted in an international arbitration between a U.K. University and a foreign entity providing educational courses under its name.
• Assisted in an international arbitration concerning a brokerage commission dispute regarding the sale of a superyacht.
• Assisted in an arbitration, including a two-day hearing, concerning Lloyd’s managing agent negligence.
• Assisted in a dispute concerning the continuance of an interim injunction restraining payment of in excess of $300 million from an escrow account pursuant to an arbitration award.
• Assisted in a multi-million-pound Bermuda Form arbitration concerning an insurance claim by an ecclesiastical institution relating to purported cases of abuse.
• Assisted in relation to a dispute concerning whether the tribunal was functus officio in the context of an international supply of goods arbitration.
• Assisted on a number of other international arbitrations including in relation to procedural matters.

Adam has significant experience in a broad range of matters, including:

• Acting in a multi-million pound international commodities arbitration with Michael Holmes KC, relating to collateral management.
• Assisted in an international arbitration concerning a brokerage commission dispute regarding the sale of a superyacht.
• Assisted, including assisting in drafting advice concerning an anti-suit injunction, in a dispute regarding multiple bills of lading and an Israeli class action law-suit concerning the overcharging of port congestion charges.
• Assisted in a substantial charterparty dispute, including in relation to Covid-19.
• Assisted in relation to a case concerning allegations of secret commissions in the context of a circa £10 million ship sale.
• Assisted in relation to the application of the 1976 Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims.
• Assisted in relation to the alleged waiver of an unsafe port claim.
• Assisting in relation to an international arbitration concerning the purchase of commodity foodstuffs.
• A multi-million pound coal purchase contract dispute regarding quality and misrepresentation.

Adam has significant experience in this area and recent matters include:

• Acted in a circa £100 million professional negligence and civil fraud case relating to class-action style construction proceedings in New Zealand.
• Advised in relation to a complex notification of claim issue regarding an international corporation and high-net-worth owner in the context of allegations of corruption and fraud.
• Advised in relation to a potentially fraudulent claim for property damage and business interruption at a restaurant.
• Assisted in a dispute concerning an allegedly fraudulent claim on an investment managers insurance policy by a well-known hedge fund.
• Acted in relation to a multi-million pound dispute concerning the authenticity of loan documentation.

Adam has significant experience in a broad range of matters; recent cases include:

• Acting in a circa £100 million professional negligence and civil fraud case relating to class-action style construction proceedings in New Zealand.
• Assisted in an arbitration, including a two-day hearing, concerning Lloyd’s managing agent negligence.
• Acting in a multi-million pound international commodities arbitration with Michael Holmes KC, relating to alleged negligence by a collateral manager.

Recent cases include:

• Appeared as sole counsel for the successful respondent in a County Court claim involving a dispute over service outside the jurisdiction.
• Assisted in a jurisdictional dispute involving substantial civil fraud and other proceedings in an E.U. jurisdiction and an English jurisdiction clause, including a challenge to English jurisdiction.
• Assisted, including assisting in drafting advice concerning an anti-suit injunction, in a dispute regarding multiple bills of lading and an Israeli class action law-suit concerning the overcharging of port congestion charges.

Recent cases include:

• Acted in respect of a circa £160 million aviation insurance and reinsurance claim, led by James Drake KC.
• Assisted in a dispute, including an interlocutory hearing in the High Court, concerning the issuing of a mandatory interim injunction to remove aircraft liens over a substantial fleet of commercial aircraft operated by a national carrier.
• Assisted in a multi-million-pound dispute, including an interlocutory hearing in the High Court, concerning a claim under an aircraft hull and spares policy relating to a private jet.

Recent cases include:

• Assisted in a dispute concerning the continuance of an interim injunction restraining payment of in excess of $300 million from an escrow account pursuant to an arbitration award.
• Assisted in a dispute, including an interlocutory hearing in the High Court, concerning the issuing of a mandatory interim injunction to remove aircraft liens over a substantial fleet of commercial aircraft operated by a national carrier.
• Assisted, including assisting in drafting advice concerning an anti-suit injunction, in a dispute regarding multiple bills of lading and an Israeli class action law-suit concerning the overcharging of port congestion charges.

Recent cases include:

• Assisting in a multi-million-pound dispute regarding petroleum purchasing contracts, including in relation to joinder of parties and the English court’s approach to complex foreign law.

Recent cases include:

• Assisted in a dispute concerning the purchase of a gambling company, including assisting with advice and pleadings relating to the set-off of claims and summary judgement.