A stellar year for Serle Court in The Legal 500 UK Bar 2025 guide
We are thrilled to announce another outstanding year of rankings and testimonials in The Legal 500 UK Bar 2025. Serle Court has been recognised as a recommended set across 12 practice areas, with an impressive total of 161 individual rankings (75 Leading Silk recommendations and 74 Leading Junior recommendations) across 22 categories.
Notably, Serle Court has maintained its Tier 1 ranking in key areas such as Fraud: Civil, Private Client: Trusts and Probate, Partnership, Mediators, and The English Bar Offshore, reinforcing our position as “one of the very best commercial chancery sets” whose “quality and strength in depth is unrivalled.”
Serle Court has also been described as having “many fantastic barristers and a first port of call on any company, commercial, trusts, and insolvency disputes.”
Our Tier 1 ranking for Dispute Resolution: Mediators continues, with Elizabeth Jones KC, Beverly-Ann Rogers, and Paul Johnson recognised in the ‘Hall of Fame’.
New and improved rankings for 2025
We proudly congratulate a number of our barristers on their new or improved rankings this year across multiple practice areas.
New individual rankings:
- Professor Jonathan Harris KC (Hon.), Zahler Bryan, Sophie Holcombe and Wilson Leung in Commercial Litigation
- Hugh Norbury KC, Tim Collingwood KC, Lara Kuehl and Wilson Leung in Insolvency
- Jonathan Adkin KC in Banking & Finance
Improved rankings:
Jonathan Adkin KC, Giles Richardson KC, Michael Walsh, James Mather, Paul Adams, Jennifer Meech, Adil Mohamedbhai and Lara Kuehl.
Rising Stars:
Our “first-rate” clerking team earned high praise from clients, who noted: “I have always been impressed with the clerks’ service and their recommendations for counsel. Serle Court is my go-to chambers for commercial and chancery disputes.”
We are immensely proud of our members, clerks, and staff for their hard work and dedication, which have collectively contributed to this exceptional recognition. We are incredibly grateful to our referees for their invaluable feedback and to The Legal 500 for their meticulous research.
To view Serle Court’s full rankings and testimonials, click here.
Related Barristers
Elizabeth Jones KC
Call: 1984
Silk: 2000
Hugh Norbury KC
Call: 1995
Silk: 2012
Jonathan Adkin KC
Call: 1997
Silk: 2013
Timothy Collingwood KC has a broad commercial and chancery practice, with a particular emphasis on litigation concerning commercial agreements, company, insolvency, and international trust matters.
Described in Legal 500 (2025) as “a truly gifted advocate who is totally committed to the case”. The directories recognise him as a leading practitioner in these fields. He has extensive experience of claims concerning breaches of duty, in particular in respect of directors or trustees and frequently involving allegations of fraud, and of shareholder disputes.
Prior to commencing practice in this jurisdiction, Tim was called to the bar in the Cayman Islands and practised as an attorney-at-law. He continues to undertake work in respect of a number of offshore jurisdictions. He is called to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands.
Timothy Collingwood KC
Call: 1996
Silk: 2020
Giles Richardson KC
Call: 1997
Silk: 2022
Michael Walsh KC
Call: 2006
Silk: 2025
Beverly-Ann Rogers
Call: 1978
James Mather
Call: 2006
Paul Adams
Call: 2008
Jennifer Meech
Call: 2008
Sophie Holcombe
Call: 2009
Adil Mohamedbhai
Call: 2010
Lara Kuehl is a commercial and chancery junior specialising in high-value disputes in England and Wales and offshore. Her practice encompasses commercial litigation and arbitration, company law, restructuring and insolvency, property litigation and civil fraud.
Lara is ranked across five practice areas: Commercial Litigation, Commercial Chancery, Insolvency and Restructuring, Company and Property Litigation, in Chambers UK, Chambers Global, Legal 500 and Lexology UK Bar.
Highly regarded for her advocacy, Lara acts as lead or sole counsel in most cases, frequently appearing unled against senior juniors and KCs. She is equally experienced as junior counsel alongside senior barristers from within and outside chambers in complex domestic and international disputes.
Alongside her private practice, Lara undertakes work for the UK Government. She is a member of the Attorney General’s B Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown, representing the Government in commercial, property, company and insolvency matters.
Before transferring to the English Bar, Lara practised as a solicitor in the London commercial disputes teams at Weil, Gotshal & Manges and McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP. From 2013 to 2015, she practised as a Cayman Islands attorney in the Dispute Resolution and Insolvency group at Maples and Calder, gaining offshore experience.
Lara Kuehl
Call: 2012
Zahler Bryan has a broad commercial chancery practice, with a particular emphasis on contentious trusts, civil fraud and financial disputes.
She regularly advises on a wide range of matters, with considerable experience in large-scale commercial and trust disputes spanning an extensive range of jurisdictions.
Zahler also has a particular interest in appellate work and has appeared in the Supreme Court and the Privy Council.
Described as “razor smart and a great asset to any team“, Zahler was awarded ‘Chancery Junior of the Year’ at the Legal 500 UK Bar Awards 2023.
Zahler Bryan
Call: 2012
Gregor Hogan
Call: 2016
Sparsh Garg is a chancery and commercial barrister specialising in contentious trusts and estates matters and company disputes. He has acted in complex, high-value trusts and company cases.
Sparsh is recognised in the legal directories for offshore private client and commercial work. He regularly receives instructions in The Bahamas, Gibraltar and Jersey, is called to the BVI Bar, and acts in BVI matters independently and as part of counsel teams.
In England, Sparsh is recognised as a “rising star” and “up and coming” barrister in traditional chancery and private client work. Clients describe him as “intelligent, hard-working, an innovative thinker”, as well as personable and a good team player.
In 2019, Sparsh was seconded to the dispute resolution team of a leading Gibraltar law firm, working on contentious trusts and commercial disputes. He has since continued to develop his offshore practice, acting as sole counsel and alongside other barristers.
His offshore experience includes three Privy Council appeals: Chu v Lau [2020], concerning just and equitable winding-up on grounds of shareholder deadlock; Perry v Lopag [2023], concerning appellate intervention in findings of foreign law; and Dawson-Damer v Grampian Trust Company Ltd, concerning a trustee’s duty of adequate deliberation.
Sparsh Garg
Call: 2017
Tim Benham-Mirando
Call: 2019
Wilson Leung
Call: 2008 (Hong Kong, non-practising) 2022 (England & Wales)
