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Head of Chambers: Gavin Kealey KC
Senior Clerks: Greg Leyden
Joint Deputy Senior Clerks: Eddie Johns, Gary Rose
Clerks: Joe Clayton, Declan Gray, Zoe Hamilton
Tenants: 71
7KBW has a reputation for excellence and intellectual rigour, combined with a practical and commercial approach to delivering advice and conducting litigation. We understand the importance of a forward-thinking, flexible approach to meeting the needs of solicitors and commercial clients. Uncompromising quality and efficiency in the delivery of our service are of the utmost importance to us and this, in turn, has resulted in 7KBW being recognised as a leading commercial set.
Members of Chambers provide legal advice and advocacy services across the full range of commercial law.
This includes the following:
- litigation and arbitration: assisting at all stages of disputes in Court or in arbitration, including drafting pleadings, advising on the merits, drafting skeleton arguments or written submissions, attending hearings and trials, conducting cross-examination and oral argument;
- advisory work: advising on legal disputes or questions, whether by way of a written opinion, or in conference or by telephone or email;
- mediation: drafting position papers and representing clients in mediations;
- expert evidence: providing expert evidence on English law for use in foreign courts or arbitrations.
In addition, the more senior members of Chambers are regularly appointed as arbitrators or mediators. Members may also be appointed as Examiners of the High Court to oversee the obtaining of evidence for use in foreign proceedings.
Work undertaken:7KBW’s practice areas are exclusively commercial. Members have a respected expertise in the full breadth of commercial law: 7KBW has maintained an enviable reputation and experience in all aspects of insurance and reinsurance; shipping and transport; professional negligence; international trade and commodities; energy, oil and gas; international arbitration; injunctions and arrests; shipbuilding; banking and financial services; product liability; futures and derivatives; aviation; media and communications; construction; conflicts of law; state immunity; international investment and a growing reputation in civil fraud.
A large proportion of 7KBW’s practice is of an international flavour and members regularly work with overseas clients and foreign lawyers. In appropriate circumstances members are delighted to accept instructions directly from overseas clients and foreign lawyers.
Recruitment:7KBW attracts pupils of only the highest quality and pursues a policy of only taking tenants of such quality either from those starting their careers in law or from those in mid-career who have elected to change from another part of the profession. The emphasis on quality has meant a steady but selective growth in the overall number of tenants over the past years.
- Gavin Kealey KC (1977) (KC-1994)
- Timothy Saloman KC (1975) (KC-1993) A
- Francis Reynolds (Hon) KC (1960) (KC-1993)
- Jonathan Gaisman KC (1979) (KC-1995)
- Dominic Kendrick KC (1981) (KC-1997)
- Alistair Schaff KC (1983) (KC-1999)
- Stephen Hofmeyr KC (1982) (KC-2000)
- Adam Fenton KC (1984) (KC-2003)
- Stephen Kenny KC (1987) (KC-2006)
- Richard Southern KC (1987) (KC-2006)
- Robert Bright KC (1987) (KC-2006)
- David Bailey KC (1989) (KC-2006)
- David Edwards KC (1989) (KC-2006) A
- Julia Dias KC (1982) (KC-2008) A
- David Allen KC (1990) (KC-2008)
- S J Phillips KC (1993) (KC-2009)
- Siobán Healy KC (1993) (KC-2010)
- James Drake KC (1998) (KC-2011)
- Peter MacDonald Eggers KC (1999) (KC-2011)
- Andrew Wales KC (1992) (KC-2012)
- Rebecca Sabben-Clare KC (1993) (KC-2012)
- Richard Waller KC (1994) (KC-2012)
- Jawdat Khurshid KC (1994) (KC-2018)
- James Brocklebank KC (1999) (KC-2018)
- Michael Holmes KC (1999) (KC-2021)
- Josephine Higgs KC (2000) (KC-2022)
- Charles Priday (1982)
- Gavin Geary (1989)
- Timothy Kenefick (1996)
- John Bignall (1996)
- Charles Holroyd (1997)
- Simon Kerr (1997)
- Benjamin Parker (2000)
- Anna Gotts (2001)
- Alexander MacDonald (2001)
- Jessica Sutherland (2003)
- Marcus Mander (2005)
- N G Casey (2005)
- Richard Sarll (2005)
- Emma Hilliard (2006)
- Sarah Cowey (2006)
- Sushma Ananda (2007)
- Sarah Martin (2008)
- Sandra Healy (2007)
- Adam Turner (2008)
- Elizabeth Lindesay (2009)
- Tim Jenns (2009)
- Jocelin Gale (2009)
- Keir Howie (2010) A
- Michael Ryan (2011)
- Harry Wright (2012)
- Stephen Du (2012) A
- Jason Robinson (2012)
- Clara Benn (2012)
- Andrew Pearson (2013)
- James Goudkamp (2014) A
- Philip Aspin (2014)
- Frederick Alliott (2015)
- Ralph Morley (2016)
- Henry Moore (2016) A
- Daniel Corteville (2016)
- Henry Ashwell (2017)
- Douglas Grant (2018)
- Rebecca Jacobs (2018)
- Charlotte Payne (2019)
- Julia Gibbon (2019)
- James Bailey (2020)
- Adam van Schaik (2020)
- Joshua S.K. Fung (2020)
- Emma Franklin (2021)
- Sophie Hepburn (2021)
- Joseph Rich (2018)
- Dave Barnard (2022)
- Charles Littlewood (2022)
- Full time arbitrators:
- Lord Mance - Call: 1965
- Sir Stephen Tomlinson - Call: 1974
- Sir Jeremy Cooke - Call: 1976
- Door Tenants: Ritin Rai SA
- Honorary Members: Francis Reynolds KC (Hon); Professor Alan Dignam KC (Hon); and Professor Howard Bennett
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