Omar Tahir

Omar has a busy commercial and chancery practice and is regularly instructed in a broad range of matters where he acts for both Claimants and Defendants in High Court and County Court Business and Property disputes, from advisory work to interim hearings and trials.

Omar is routinely instructed as sole Counsel and as a junior led by senior barristers and KCs in an array of complex disputes, spanning: company and shareholder litigation, personal and corporate insolvency, general commercial litigation, banking and finance disputes, sports litigation, insurance and officeholder litigation.  With business nous, Omar is comfortable navigating different commercial disciplines and dispute forums, including cases with in an international dimension and a multi-jurisdictional complex.

At the chancery end, Omar has experience in commercial and residential property litigation, appearing in matters for both landlords and tenants. Omar’s property practice includes residential possession hearings and trials, mortgage possession claims, orders for sale, receivership and security disputes, constructive trusts and TOLATA claims and forfeiture of leases.

With a growing international disputes practice, Omar has experience advising in complex international disputes across a range of different jurisdictions and arbitral institutions in matters concerning the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards and challenging the jurisdiction of tribunals. Omar also sits as an arbitrator at the Delos Dispute Resolution Centre and is conversant with a number of institutional rules and treaties in the commercial and investor-state arbitration arena. Omar has authored a thesis on contemporary issues relating to assignment in investment treaty arbitration and contributes to a number of key academic texts in this area.

Before his career at the Bar, Omar gained experience in the banking and finance team at Norton Rose Fulbright, Frankfurt and in the European Central Bank where he worked alongside large financial institutions advising on intricate post-Brexit strategy and dispute resolution. Prior to joining Chambers, Omar spent eighteen months at a leading boutique commercial litigation firm in London. During this period, he gained extensive experience in complex High Court litigation, international arbitration and shareholder disputes, including some high profile cases before the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.

Omar is qualified to take instructions on a Public Access basis.