Tamara Oppenheimer KC
Member, Fountain Court Chambers
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Tamara Oppenheimer KC has been practising as a barrister at Fountain Court Chambers since 2002, having previously trained and worked as a solicitor in the litigation department at Allen & Overy. She was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2020. She has a broad commercial litigation practice spanning financial services, regulatory, general commercial disputes, professional negligence, insurance and aviation. She is a contributor to The Law of Privilege, edited by Bankim Thanki KC, and co-author of the chapter on privilege in Lissack and Horlick on Bribery (Third Edition, 2020). Tamara is regularly instructed on matters concerning privilege and confidentiality, particularly in the regulatory and investigatory context. She has appeared in a number of leading privilege cases, including Dechert v. Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation [2016] 1 WLR 5027; The Director of the Serious Fraud Office v. Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation [2017] 1 WLR 4205 (at first instance) and [2019] 1 WLR 791 (in the Court of Appeal); R (on the application of Jet2.com) v. Civil Aviation Authority [2020] QB 1027; and Loreley Financing (Jersey) No 30 Ltd v. Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Ltd [2022] EWCA Civ 1484.
