Adam was admitted as a solicitor in 1996 and spent his early career with Phillips Fox in Wellington, New Zealand and Phillips Fox Sydney. Adam joined Wotton + Kearney in 2002.
Adam regularly provides advice on indemnity disputes. He is currently involved in a range of defence claims involving financial institutions, company directors and construction and engineering professionals. He is often appointed as monitoring counsel litigated claims in Australia and the US.
He is also advising on indemnity under ISR and Contract Work policies, and running a number of significant recovery investigations and actions involving product plants, power stations, mines storage warehouses and industrial machinery.
Adam's recent matters include:
- acting for D&O insurers in claims involving the airline industry, television networks, telecommunications companies, Managed Funds, financial advisers, infrastructure entities, computer companies, tobacco companies and automobile companies;
- acting for Professional Indemnity insurers and defending claims against valuers, engineers, financial advisers, accountants and auditors; and
- acting for industrial Special Risks insurers in advising on policy response for material damage and business interruption claims arising from incidents at coal mines, gold mines, processing plants and power generation/transmission facilities and subsequent recovery advice.
Wotton + Kearney's major clients for which Adam does work include AIG, ACE Insurance Limited, FM Global, Allianz, Lumley and a wide range of London based insurance companies and syndicates.