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“Kendrah is an absolutely outstanding advocate. She is brilliant in hearings, knows the case inside out and is practical, clear and great with clients.”
Kendrah Potts is a leading barrister in commercial litigation, sports law and civil fraud. She is nominated for Sport Junior of the Year at the Legal 500 Bar Awards 2024, was on The Lawyer’s Hot 100 Lawyers for 2021 and won Sport Junior of the Year in the Legal 500 Bar Awards 2022. She is described in the directories as “a superstar and searingly intelligent”, who is a “strategic thinker” and “superb team player.”
Kendrah’s commercial practice includes advising on all aspects of civil fraud, corporate and business disputes and breach of contract claims. She is recognised in the directories as a leading junior in civil fraud and commercial litigation and is instructed in high profile, complex cases, including two of the largest commercial and civil fraud cases in recent years (PIFSS v Al Rajaan & Ors and Suppipat & Ors v Narongdej & Ors, which were in The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2020 and 2022).
Kendrah is ranked in band 1 in the directories for sports law and is consistently instructed on leading cases, including for Kieran Trippier, Ollie Robinson, Daniel Sturridge and for governing bodies in disputes resulting from Covid and the invasion of Ukraine. She has extensive experience of commercial disputes and a wide range of disciplinary matters in the sports sector. She is frequently instructed by Premier League and Championship clubs, players and athletes, national and international sport governing bodies and agents.
Kendrah is widely recognised for her advocacy skills, being described as an “astute” and “skilful” advocate. She has extensive advocacy experience, from interim applications to trials involving significant cross-examination of witnesses of fact and experts, and is regularly instructed in cases against silks. She is described as “a master of case strategy and witness handling”. After many years as a solicitor and spending time in-house on secondment, she has an excellent understanding of the demands on clients and is “very hands-on and easy to work with” and adopts a “pragmatic and commercial approach”.
Kendrah is an accredited mediator and also sits as an arbitrator. She is able to work in Spanish and French.
Prior to joining the Bar, Kendrah worked as a solicitor for eleven years. After eight years at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, she joined Onside Law (where she was a Partner and Head of Litigation) before joining Mishcon de Reya.
Recent comments from Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal include:
“A superstar; searingly intelligent, brilliant judgement, great client handling and a superb team player.” – Legal 500
“Kendrah is outstanding; she is a strategic thinker and good with clients.” – Legal 500
“Kendrah is an absolutely outstanding advocate. She is brilliant in hearings, knows the case inside out and is practical, clear and great with clients.” – Chambers & Partners
“She is wonderful: she drafts beautifully and is great on her feet.”– Chambers & Partners
“Kendrah is highly intelligent and grasps complex technical issues very quickly which makes both her client handling skills and paperwork exceptional.” – Legal 500
“She is formidably intelligent, diligent and sharp.” – Chambers & Partners
“Kendrah is a barrister of very high calibre and an absolute pleasure to work with.” – Chambers & Partners
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Kendrah is recognised in the directories as a leading junior in commercial litigation. She advises on a broad range of commercial disputes, including contractual matters, business and company disputes (including breach of director duties, joint venture disputes, unfair prejudice and derivative claims), across various industry sectors.
Kendrah also has significant experience in a wide variety of interim applications, ranging from freezing and other injunctive relief to disclosure and security for costs. Many of her cases have international aspect and she is experienced in conflicts of laws/jurisdictional issues, enforcement and asset tracing.
Kendrah’s practice involves proceedings in the English courts and arbitration.
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Directory quotes:
“Kendrah is a superstar who really gets it and comes up with solutions.” – Chambers & Partners
“Brilliant both with drafting and advocacy, very hands-on and easy to work with, very easy to communicate with and always prompt to respond.” – Legal 500
“Kendrah is wonderfully practical and proactive in her approach to cases, considering angles which others would disregard or not identify in the first place. Her knowledge of the law and ability to deploy the absolutely key kernel of authority in a plain and effective way with judges is her greatest strength.” – Legal 500
“She is hands on and understands how to support solicitors and be a real team player. She combines this with extremely strong written and oral advocacy, and a pragmatic and commercial approach.” – Legal 500
“Kendrah is a superstar who really gets it and comes up with solutions.”– Chambers & Partners
“She is wonderful: she drafts beautifully and is very great on her feet.”– Chambers & Partners
“Very pleasant to work with, great written work, and very solicitor and user-friendly.” – Legal 500
“Kendrah is highly intelligent and grasps complex technical issues very quickly which makes both her client handling skills and paperwork exceptional.” – Legal 500
“Experienced beyond her years of call – reliable and user-friendly, she will be a go to for fraud cases going forward.” – Legal 500
Kendrah represents clients in a range of civil fraud and asset recovery claims both in the courts and arbitration.
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Prior to joining the Bar, Kendrah advised clients on a range of commercial disputes before arbitral bodies, including in the sports industry (please see the “Sports” link for further information on Kendrah’s sports arbitration work). For details of Kendrah’s commercial disputes experience, please see the “Commercial Litigation” section above. Kendrah has worked in Paris, Barcelona and Switzerland and is also able to work in French and Spanish.
Kendrah is the only junior to be ranked in band 1 in both Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 for sport. She is regularly instructed in high profile cases against silks.
She advises on all sports-related matters, including financial fair play, corruption, match-fixing, disrepute charges, player/agent disputes, anti-doping and challenges to decisions of sport governing bodies brought on the basis of the sports supervisory review jurisdiction, restraint of trade or breaches of competition law.
Kendrah is on the arbitral and mediation panels of Sport Resolutions and sits on the Union Cycliste Internationale’s Anti-Doping Panel, Basketball Arbitral Tribunal and the World Association of Kickboxing Organizations disciplinary and arbitral panels.
Kendrah was appointed to the Challenge Panel advising the UK Government on its review of UK Anti-Doping in 2017. She was also Legal Counsel to the international commission established by the Union Cycliste Internationale to investigate doping and related allegations of corruption and mismanagement in cycling and undertook a secondment to the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games where she was the lead lawyer on sports integrity and anti-doping.
Kendrah co-authored a new chapter on Misconduct in the Fourth Edition of Sport: Law and Practice published in March 2021 and on Safeguarding in Football Law. She is an editor for LawInSport and regularly speaks at conferences and publishes articles.
Kendrah is currently instructed on a number of confidential cases before the Court of Arbitration for Sport and first instance sport governing body tribunals, as well as on various player, club and agent disputes in Rule K arbitrations.
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Directory comments:
“Kendrah Potts is great in hearings, very good with clients and incredibly experienced in sport matters.”
“Kendrah has a deep knowledge of the field from both the athlete and governing body perspectives. She is an astute advocate and a master of case strategy and witness handling.”
“She has a really good knowledge of sports and is punchy and to the point. Kendrah is sensational.” – Chambers & Partners
“Has a depth of knowledge of the law, sports regulations and the sports industry that belies her year of call. Is both concise and comprehensive in her written and oral advice, is exceptional with clients, is quietly persuasive and passionate in her representation of clients.” – Legal 500, 2021
Kendrah is a CEDR accredited mediator and is on the Sport Resolutions Mediation Panel. In acting as mediator Kendrah draws on her experiences as a solicitor in private practice and in-house, which provided her with a particularly good understanding of the commercial realities in which parties operate and which is often crucial to facilitating settlement.
Kendrah also sits as an arbitrator. In respect of commercial disputes, Kendrah is on the panel for the London Chamber of Arbitration and Mediation.
In respect of sports disputes, Kendrah is on the following panels: Sport Resolutions Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators; Union Cycliste Internationale Arbitral Board; World Association of Kickboxing Organisations Arbitral Committee; and British Equestrian Federation.
Kendrah is frequently instructed on international litigation, including cases involving offshore jurisdictions and proceedings. Kendrah has considerable experience in dealing with cross-border issues and foreign law.
For details of Kendrah’s international commercial and civil fraud disputes experience, please see the Commercial Litigation and Civil Fraud sections above. Kendrah has worked in Paris, Barcelona and Switzerland and is also able to work in French and Spanish.
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MA (Oxon).
Panel member for the London Chamber of Arbitration and Mediation.
Panel member for Sport Resolutions (Legal Arbitrator and Mediator).
Kendrah is a CEDR accredited mediator.
Kendrah also works in French and Spanish.
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