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Joint Heads of Chambers: David Quest KC & David Head KC
Chambers Director: Kathryn Paterson
Director of Clerking: Stuart Pullum
Senior Practice Manager: Luke Carvalho
Tenants: 106
THE CHAMBERS 3VB is a leading barristers’ chambers providing specialist advocacy and advisory services worldwide in all areas of commercial and financial litigation, dispute resolution, international arbitration and public international law, with many highly prominent legal practitioners across the world. Members advise and represent clients in court, arbitration and other tribunals in England, other jurisdictions worldwide and internationally. 3VB’s approachable and responsive members and practice managers understand the pressures on solicitors and clients and the importance of providing a superb quality of service, in which legal excellence is combined with a commercial attitude.
WORK UNDERTAKEN 3VB has a genuine depth of experience across the full range of commercial litigation, from banking and financial services to company law, insurance, professional negligence, insolvency, commercial fraud, IT and media and entertainment. Its members are regularly instructed by the leading law firms in the major pieces of commercial litigation of the day, and often act in teams on various sides of major disputes. Chambers has a strong reputation in domestic and international arbitration, including significant experience of investment treaty disputes and cases involving energy, natural resources and infrastructure. 3VB has substantial experience of international work, in both litigation and arbitration. Members are frequently instructed by lawyers from other jurisdictions and are accustomed to working in multi-jurisdictional teams. They have particular experience of disputes arising in the Caribbean, the Gulf States, the post-Soviet states and the Asia-Pacific region. As well as acting as counsel, many of its members and impressive array of international associate members sit as arbitrators, under all the major arbitration rules. 3VB’s members also undertake non-contentious work, such as drafting terms and conditions in contracts for financial institutions and commercial clients, and advising clients on the effects of new law.
RECRUITMENT 3VB offers up to five pupillages a year and also considers applications as lateral hires from barristers with established, excellent practices.
- David Quest KC (1993) (KC-2013)
- David Head KC (1995) (KC-2016)
- Ali Malek KC (1980) (KC-1996)
- John Jarvis KC (1970) (KC-1989)
- Christopher Symons KC (1972) (KC-1989)
- Ewan McQuater KC (1985) (KC-2003)
- Adrian Beltrami KC (1989) (KC-2008)
- Richard Salter KC (1975) (KC-1995)
- Michael Blair KC (1965) (KC-1996) (Hon Causa)++
- Hodge Malek KC (1983) (KC-1999)
- Andrew Sutcliffe KC (1983) (KC-2001)
- Andrew Onslow KC (1982) (KC-2002)
- Rory Phillips KC (1984) (KC-2002)
- Tom Weitzman KC (1984) (KC-2003)
- Andrew Fletcher KC (1980) (KC-2006)
- Jonathan Nash KC (1986) (KC-2006)
- Hefin Rees KC (1992) (KC-2013)
- Jonathan Davies-Jones KC (1994) (KC-2013)
- Matthew Hardwick KC (1994) (KC-2014)
- Catherine Gibaud KC (1996) (KC-2014)
- Prof. Zachary Douglas KC (2006) (KC-2015)
- Ewan McKendrick KC (1998) (KC-2015)
- Tom Montagu Smith KC (2001) (KC-2017)
- Ian Wilson KC (1995) (KC-2018)
- Jamie Riley KC (1995) (KC-2019)
- Peter de Verneuil Smith KC (1998) (KC-2019)
- Nicholas Craig KC (1998) (KC-2019)
- Rajesh Pillai KC(2002) (KC-2020)
- Matthew Parker KC (1997) (KC-2021)
- Saima Hanif KC (2002) (KC-2021)
- Adam Kramer KC (2004) (KC-2021)
- Farhaz Khan KC (2005) (KC-2022)
- Jane Davies Evans KC (2001) (KC-2024)
- William Edwards (2002) (KC-2025)
- Gopal Subramanium
- Angharad Start (1988)
- Peter Ratcliffe (1998)
- Sophie Mallinckrodt (1999)
- George McPherson (2003)
- David Simpson (2003)
- Lisa Lacob (2004)
- Charlotte Eborall (2004)
- Richard Hanke (2006)
- Damien Walker (2006)
- Can Yeginsu (2007)
- Robert Purves (2007)
- Alexia Knight (2007)
- Christopher Bond (2008)
- Philip Hinks (2008)
- Anne Jeavons (2008)
- Adam Temple (2008)
- Kate Holderness (2008)
- Liisa Lahti (2009)
- Tom De Vecchi (2009)
- Theodor van Sante (2009)
- James Sharpe (2009)
- Timothy Killen (2010)
- Miriam Schmelzer (2010)
- Tom Rainsbury (2010)
- Christopher Burdin (2010)
- Teniola Onabanjo (2010)
- Ian Higgins (2011)
- Yash Bheeroo (2011)
- James Potts (2011)
- Cleon Catsambis (2011)
- James McWilliams (2011)
- Antony Pavlovich (2012)
- Scott Ralston (2012)
- Matthew Watson (2012)
- Sarah Tulip (2012)
- Saaman Pourghadiri (2012)
- Pia Dutton (2013)
- Emmanuel Sheppard (2013)
- Hannah Glover (2013)
- Mark Wassouf (2014)
- Georges Chalfoun (2014)
- Victor Steinmetz (2014)
- Cameron Miles (2015)
- Rebecca Zaman (2015)
- Chloë Bell (2015)
- Dominic Kennelly (2016)
- William Day (2016)
- Sophia Dzwig (2017)
- Ryan Ferro (2017)
- Ravi Jackson (2017)
- Ian McDonald (2017)
- Emma Hughes (2018)
- Ivana Daskalova (2018)
- Clarissa Jones (2018)
- Judy Fu (2019)
- Calum Mulderrig (2019)
- Sarah Parker (2016)
- Anca Bunda (2019)
- Chinmayi Sharma (2020)
- Rumen Cholakov (2021)
- Paul Bonner Hughes (2021)
- Gretel Scott (2021)
- Devon Airey (2022)
- Amy Gregg (2023)
- Catherine Drummond (2022)
- Lucas Jones (2022)
- Maud Mullan (2023)
- Diana Stoean (2023)
- Rose Edwards (2024)
- Ashrutha Rai (2024)
- John Yap (2024)
- Viktoria Winzer (2024)
- Sir William Blair ++
- Tan Sri Dato’ Cecil Abraham ++
- Thomas C Baxter ++
- The Hon Ian Binnie CC KC ++
- Elizabeth Birch ++
- Prof Stavros Brekoulakis ++
- Lee C Buchheit ++
- Earl A Cherniak KC
- Nayla Comair-Obeid ++
- Sir Ross Cranston ++
- Clive Freedman ++
- Sean Hagan ++
- Callista Harris ++
- Kaj Hober ++
- Madeline Kimei ++
- D. Brian King ++
- Christopher Lau SC ++
- Michael Lazarus ++
- John Lorn McDougall KC ++
- Felicity Maher ++
- Mansoor Jamal Malik ++
- Thierry Marembert ++
- Jose Maurellet SC ++
- Sophie Nappert ++
- Feisal Naqvi ++
- Sir Robert Nelson ++
- Nania Owusu-Ankomah ++
- Amit Sibal SA ++
- Sir Stephen Silber ++
- Sir Anthony Smellie KC ++
- Attila Tanzi ++
- Christopher Ward SC ++
- ++ Associate Member
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