Iain Quirk, KC
Iain is a King’s Counsel at Essex Court Chambers. His focus is international arbitration, and parallel court and arbitration proceedings, with an emphasis on energy, fraud, shareholder disputes and banking & finance. Iain is highly experienced in injunctions and enforcement actions, as well as long trials in the English courts and offshore.
Iain is also the co-founder and CEO of the lawtech start-up, pinqDR.com, the first in the UK offering a complete online solution for the resolution of mid to lower value B2B disputes, providing parties with a binding decision in 8 weeks.
Iain is listed as a leading silk in Chambers & Partners / Legal 500 in four separate areas: International Arbitration, Energy & Natural Resources, Employment Law, and Media & Entertainment. He is rated as “Simply exceptional. Calm and authoritative. Easy to work with and excellent on the law and the advocacy is sensational.”
His court work includes some of the most significant cases in the Business and Property Courts in recent years, including Krishna v Gowrie – a £150m fraud and unfair prejudice claim in the Chancery Division, heard over 8 weeks late last year.
Iain is Deputy Chair of the ICC UK Arbitration Committee, UK delegate to the ICC Global Arbitration Commission and is frequently appointed as arbitrator. He is an elected member of the International Committee of the Chancery Bar Association, and the Africa Committee of Combar, and is called to the Bar of the BVI. He was on the UK Government Attorney General’s Panel of Counsel for over 10 years.