Andrew Onslow KC is “a highly accomplished commercial and banking silk”, “a first-class advocate who can get to grips with the thorniest of issues”. His main areas of practice are general commercial litigation and arbitration, banking and finance, fraud, professional negligence and art and cultural property. In recent years he has acted in some of the weightiest and most high-profile cases in the English Courts – among them ENRC v Gerrard & Dechert LLP (trial June 2021); SKAT v Solo Capital Partners (acting for lead defendants in US$2bn claim by Danish tax authorities, alleging cum-ex dividend fraud); £ hundreds million claim against Clydesdale Bank and its parent company, National Australia Bank; Aabar Holdings & Others v Glencore plc & Others (a FSMA s.90 claim); The RBS Rights Issue Litigation (the first major claim under FSMA s.90); Byers v Saudi National Bank (now the leading case on knowing receipt of assets transferred under foreign law); Perry v National Crime Agency (the first major claim for compensation under POCA s.283); Thwaytes v Sotheby’s (the Caravaggio case, now the leading case on an auctioneer’s duties to a consignor); R v Hayes (the first SFO LIBOR prosecution) and R v Bittar (the first Euribor prosecution); and a number of leading FSMA s.90A claims. He is described as “very hands on and fiercely intellectual … bright, approachable and extremely good in court … a very tenacious cross-examiner.”