Personal bio
Alex Potts KC’s practice covers all areas of commercial litigation, international arbitration, and public and regulatory disputes. Alex has extensive experience of litigating, arbitrating and mediating complex disputes in the fields of banking, financial services, investment funds, (re)insurance, professional negligence, company law, trusts, fraud, asset recovery, and contentious insolvency. Alex’s practice also covers public, constitutional and administrative law (including the laws of the British Overseas Territories), regulatory law, telecommunications law, employment law, planning law, and environmental law. He has also been appointed to act as a Tribunal Chair or Tribunal Member of the Human Rights Tribunal and the Copyright Tribunal. In addition to his English law practice, Alex has been admitted to the Bars of Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and the British Virgin Islands, and Alex maintains a diverse ‘offshore’ practice. As a result, Alex has conducted cases and appeared as Leading Counsel before a variety of trial courts, appellate courts, arbitration tribunals, and regulatory tribunals, including a series of recent appeals before the Court of Appeal for Bermuda, and the Court of Appeal for the Cayman Islands, with further appeals pending before the Privy Council. In addition to his trial and appellate work, Alex is frequently instructed as counsel in international arbitrations and mediations. Alex has particular experience of arbitrating international insurance/reinsurance disputes associated with ‘the Bermuda Form’ and the Bermuda and London insurance markets, as well as arbitrations involving international projects and joint ventures involving Bermuda, Cayman Islands, and BVI structures. Alex also accepts appointments as an Arbitrator, Mediator, and as an Expert Witness. He is currently appointed as a Sole Arbitrator on a number of pending arbitrations.