What the Directories Say

Chambers & Partners UK Bar (2025)

3 Verulam Buildings remains a pre-eminent set with an excellent reputation in the City, noted for its expert handling of banking and finance matters.

The set houses an extensive range of market-leading practitioners, who are skilled at tackling diverse contentious and non-contentious financial matters.

Barristers here are frequently instructed to act both for and against multinational banks in cases of the utmost complexity and market profile.

Members of the set are also proficient at dealing with claims concerning civil fraud, professional negligence and the mis-selling of financial products.

“The barristers have demonstrated an ability to deal promptly and completely with complex and sophisticated matters.”

“3VB covers the full gamut of commercial banking and fraud work.”

The Legal 500 UK Bar (2025)

3 Verulam Buildings “remains one of the best sets for banking litigation”, praised for its strength-in-depth from top silks down to baby juniors.

“3 Verulam Buildings are the go-to set for commercial court and financial list work, with all their barristers – from the most junior to the most senior – being at the top of their game.”

“Tremendous banking set.”

“3 Verulam Buildings is very strong in financial services and fraud.”

“The clerks are very commercial, user-friendly and helpful to law firms. They genuinely try to make it work for law firms and their clients.”

Chambers & Partners UK Bar (2025)

3 Verulam Buildings’ market-leading reputation arises out of its involvement in headline-grabbing commercial cases.

With a deep bench of highly ranked individuals, the set boasts some of the strongest practitioners in the market.

“They really are the go-to set for banking and finance disputes.”

“From top to bottom, the set features responsive, commercial and, most importantly, highly talented barristers.”

Chambers & Partners UK Bar (2025)

3 Verulam Buildings houses a strong bench of senior and junior barristers who are praised for their expert handling of complex and high-value fraud work.

The barristers are adept at representing corporations and high net worth individuals in fraud disputes stemming from allegations of bribery, conspiracy and misappropriation.

Recent work for the set includes representing the claimants in Farol Holdings Ltd v Clydesdale Bank plc and National Australia Bank Ltd concerning swap breakage costs.

The Legal 500 UK Bar (2025)

3 Verulam Buildings is praised for its ‘considerable strength and depth of talent in the civil fraud area’.

Combined with their acknowledged strengths in banking and financial services matters, the members provide a compelling mix of expertise in complex financial fraud claims as well as broader international disputes.

“Excellent chambers.Quality from top to bottom.”

“3VB are a quality set, through and through.”

“3VB is an excellent set, mainly in the banking, finance, and financial services fraud world.”

“A top set for banking and finance disputes, civil fraud and international arbitration.”

Chambers & Partners UK Bar (2025)

3 Verulam Buildings is particularly well regarded for its handling of commercial chancery litigation involving complex elements of banking and financial services law.

Members are also well versed in civil fraud and insolvency disputes, and are regularly called upon to appear in major litigation arising in several international and offshore jurisdictions.

Cases of note include FDIC-R v Barclays Bank, a high-value breach of competition law and breach of fraudulent misrepresentation matter, and Harrington & Charles Trading Co v Jatin Mehta, a USD1 billion commercial fraud claim.

The Legal 500 UK Bar (2025)

Senior and junior members are regularly instructed on some of the largest commercial disputes to hit the London and international courts and tribunals.

“3VB consistently fields the best and the brightest at the commercial Bar. Their strength lies not just in their technical expertise but in their unassuming attitude and commercial approach.”

“3VB is a strong set, with impressive juniors.”

“3VB is a leading set for commercial litigation.”

“3VB are the set to beat – their strength in depth and value for money are unmatched.”

Chambers & Partners UK Bar (2025)

Clients in the energy sector benefit from 3 Verulam Buildings recognised strength within investor treaty and commercial international arbitration matters.

Members are instructed on an impressive broad spectrum of energy disputes arising from upstream and downstream oil & gas, mining, renewables, nuclear and conventional power.

Viaduct d.o.o. Portoroz and others v Bosnia & Hercegovina is a noteworthy recent example of the sort of high level investor state arbitration in which the set’s barristers routinely appear.

The Legal 500 UK Bar (2025)

Best known for banking and commercial litigation, it is active in contract disputes and investment treaty arbitrations involving the energy sector, as well as cases concerning the operation of oil and gas fields and pipelines.

“3VB is a very strong set for energy work. They all know the energy industry very well.”

“A very diverse set with some outstanding counsel’, 3 Verulam Buildings is ‘undoubtedly a leading set for energy work where technical excellence combines with understanding to guide clients through every stage.”

Chambers & Partners UK Bar (2025)

3 Verulam Buildings maintains a dominant position in the market, with clients describing the team as an “excellent set of barristers” with “high profiles” and as being “synonymous with big-ticket financial service work.”

Members of chambers are keenly sought after for sophisticated, high-stakes regulatory concerns, and act for a prestigious client base including major banks, brokerages and private equity firms, as well as the regulatory bodies themselves.

Recently, members represented five defendants in Robert Lee & others v James Hay & others, a multiparty claim by former Premier League footballers against their pension administrators.

The Legal 500 UK Bar (2025)

3 Verulam Buildings is “exceptionally strong financial services set, with excellent practitioners at all levels.”.

The chambers is home to a team which regularly acts for and against the regulators, including the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and is adept at handling contentious and advisory matters.

“3VB are probably the pre-eminent financial services set and have huge expertise stretching back a long way.”

“The set is first rate at junior and silk level.”

“First class commercial set with strengths at all levels.”

Chambers & Partners UK Bar (2025)

3 Verulam Buildings is noted as having “good strength in depth and fantastic credentials in financial services”.

The set is well regarded for its handling of contentious commercial insolvencies, and its tenants are regularly called upon to act for insolvency practitioners in high-value, cross-border recovery actions.

The set is described as “an established set with superior capability on an individual and collective level”.

Recent standout work for members includes Harrington & Charles Trading Co and others v Jatin Mehta and others.

The Legal 500 UK Bar (2025)

3 Verulam Buildings has its strengths and reputation in financial services but now marries that with the expertise of a number of commercial insolvency barristers.

“Extremely strong bench in insolvency work with numerous available counsel with expert knowledge and practical experience of a variety of high profile cases.”

“3VB has great strength in depth in the financial services space.”

“They are personable, commercially minded and responsive.”

Chambers & Partners UK Bar (2025)

3 Verulam Buildings leans on its expertise in banking and finance to handle a broad array of insurance and reinsurance matters arising from the sector.

Members of the set adeptly handle professional indemnity, credit risk, D&O and construction-related disputes, both domestic and international in nature. They are regularly instructed by insured parties, insurers and reinsurers and act on both sides of insurance broker cases.

Members of 3 Verulam Buildings have been involved in key insurance cases including London International Exhibition Centre v RSA and others, a test case relating to business interruption occurring during the COVID pandemic.

“3VB is often at the coalface for the highest-profile and topical disputes.”

“We have a lot of great experiences with the barristers at 3VB. Their work ethic is outstanding.”

The Legal 500 UK Bar (2025)

Fielding “several members who specialise in insurance and reinsurance disputes”, 3 Verulam Buildings’ leading barristers were recently instructed in claims under a wide variety of insurance policies, including securities claims under D&O Polices, mis-selling, cladding (and other construction policy-related claims), Covid-19 matters, and several reinsurance disputes.

“Top quality set.”

“Responsive and helpful.”

“Very good set of chambers with exceptional members, who are experienced well beyond their years – undeniable strength in depth.”

Chambers & Partners UK Bar (2025): General Commercial & Insurance

3 Verulam Buildings has a well-established reputation in international arbitration, with notable depth in commercial disputes.

The set is steeped in a long history of top-quality appointments in the financial services sector, often acting in arbitrations relating to shareholder disputes, as well as arbitration award enforcements.

Its barristers also demonstrate expertise in energy and development-related disputes for clients across the Middle East, Europe and Africa, frequently conducted under the rules of the LCIA, the ICC, SIAC and UNCITRAL.

Members offer additional strength to clients in investor-state disputes, acting in complex and high-value ICSID arbitrations.

The Legal 500 UK Bar (2022): Arbitrators

3 Verulam Buildings’ impressive push into the international arbitration market isn’t limited to the counsel side.

The set has an increasingly strong stable of full time and part time arbitrators who command considerable respect in the market.

“3VB has been able to attract many leading practitioners over the last few years. It is particularly strong on international arbitration.”

“3VB has done an incredible job in joining highly experienced arbitrators and arbitration counsel and, as a result, has formed a very strong arbitration team.”

“They deserve their reputation as one of the very best commercial sets in London.”

The Legal 500 UK Bar (2025): Counsel

3 Verulam Buildings is now firmly ensconced among the leading sets in London for international arbitration and is considered by some to be ‘the leading set of chambers for international investment arbitration disputes’.

“3VB are regarded as the pre-eminent set for international arbitration in London. It has some really important figures in the arbitration world.”

“Their set are intelligent, commercial, ambitious and strong in their practice areas. Supported by fantastic juniors.”

“First rank set for top arbitration work in London, MENA and Asia. Unrivalled Asian experience at the London Bar.”

“3VB demonstrates an outstanding level of professionalism, knowledge and dedication in the cases I have dealt with them.”

The Legal 500 UK Bar (2025)

In the art world, members of 3 Verulam Buildings act for defendant and claimant auction houses, dealers, and sellers involved in high-profile disputes.

“One of the major heavy weight sets with a good team of silks and juniors doing art and cultural property.”

“3VB is great on civil fraud and offers a good range of barristers with expertise in art & cultural property.”

“3 Verulam Buildings has a good clerking team which is always available and sensible on suggestions for counsel.”

“The clerks at 3VB are very efficient, friendly and professional.”

“3VB is an excellent set.”

Chambers & Partners UK Bar (2025)

3 Verulam Buildings offers noteworthy expertise across a range of offshore work including trusts, insolvency, civil fraud, restructuring and commercial cases.

Its barristers are experienced in appearing in high-value disputes, and members are frequently called before the courts in the Caribbean, the Channel Islands, Dubai and Hong Kong.

The set continues to appear in high-profile cases, including in Abraaj Investment Management v KPMG Lower Gulf and NMC Healthcare v Dubai Islamic Bank and Noor Bank.

One source comments that 3VB is a “strong set of very talented, clever, and dedicated counsel”. Another solicitor refers to the set as “top-notch”.

The Legal 500 UK Bar (2025)

Praised by one client for “growing and improving all the time”, 3 Verulam Buildings had another strong year of offshore work.

“3VB have now firmly established themselves as a force to be reckoned with in terms of offshore fraud and asset tracing matters. You see them popping up on all sorts of matters in this space and they have become a set to go to when you don’t know what you want, but you know they will have someone.”

The Legal 500 UK Bar (2025)

3 Verulam Buildings specialises in acting for government agencies involved in civil recovery procedures.

“3VB is an increasing force in POCA work and asset forfeiture, with a number of its barristers gaining experience in the area.”

Chambers & Partners UK Bar (2025)

3 Verulam Buildings houses counsel who are experienced in a range of professional negligence disputes.

Its barristers offer deep expertise when handling insurance-related claims as well as those alleging negligence on the part of solicitors.

They have additional skill in claims arising out of negligent tax and investment fund advice.

Recent high-profile work includes members’ involvement on behalf of defendants in the SKAT v Solo Capital Partners LLP case.

“3VB have some very strong specialists in this area. I would not hesitate to recommend them.”

The Legal 500 UK Bar (2025)

“3VB is an excellent set. I would have no hesitation in recommending them for professional negligence work relating to finance, legal, accounting, and business professionals.”

“They have a good broad mix of expertise.”

“The service is excellent and I have always been impressed with the clerking team.”

“They are of a consistently high calibre.”

Chambers & Partners UK Bar (2025)

3VB possesses strong credentials in investor-versus-state arbitration.

The set handles an impressive roster of high-value disputes on behalf of sovereign states and investors across the world, including in the Middle East, Africa and East Asia.

Barristers here are highly adept at acting before a range of international courts and arbitral institutions including the ICC and ICSID.

An instructing solicitor praises the set’s “very strong bench of first-class barristers, all of whom have very impressive academic credentials”. Another source “couldn’t think of a better set for complex international matters”.

Members of chambers recently represented claim investors in an ICSID arbitration against Bosnia involving two hydroelectric power plant projects.

The Legal 500 UK Bar (2025)

3 Verulam Buildings is now a well-established presence in the field of public international law.

The set’s credentials are especially strong at the junior end, where it fields several members with enviable track records in investment treaty arbitrations.

“Has transformed from an international investment arbitration set to an international law powerhouse, with high-profile recruits. Now has strength in depth at all levels, with brilliant juniors coming up the ranks.”

“3VB is a really top set for public international law. We have been very happy with the service we have received from all seniorities in public international law.”

“3VB has a very strong public international law team. Some of the top silks in public international law are there and the junior ranks are also full of individuals that are making very strong names for themselves in PIL circles.”

“Impressive availability of quality counsel for treaty arbitrations.”

“The clerks are they are personable, commercially minded and responsive.”

“They have always been very efficient and polite.”

“They are excellent experts in their areas and a pleasure to work with.”

The Legal 500 (EMEA) (2025)

3 Verulam Buildings continues to be a well-regarded set for banking and finance disputes, as part of a broader commercial disputes offering taking it to free zones and international arbitration in the Middle East.

“A market leading set for commercial litigation in the Middle East, 3 Verulam Buildings’ members regularly appear in high value banking claims in the DIFC Courts, as well as complex commercial arbitration as both counsel and arbitrators.”

The Legal 500 (Asia Pacific) (2025)

The ‘very strong set‘ 3 Verulam Buildings is particularly strong for commercial disputes involving the financial services sector.

“Leading commercial set 3 Verulam Buildings has strength and depth of talent at every level. Investment treaty and commercial arbitration continue to be key areas of instruction within the set’s Asia Pacific practice.”