Keating Chambers

Head of Chambers: Alexander Nissen KC

Tenants: 74

THE CHAMBERS Keating Chambers is a leading set of commercial barristers’ chambers based in London, United Kingdom, with a thriving domestic and international practice. With a core specialism in construction law, our members act in the very highest value and most significant project disputes in the world.

With 74 barristers, including 34 silks, we have in depth expertise across a range of seniorities to support our clients’ needs and ensuring that assistance is available for disputes of every type and size. Our members are widely recognised for their first-class advocacy expertise and incisive cross examination skills. As counsel, their understanding of how judges and tribunals think can prove critical in achieving success in trials and arbitrations. Chambers’ excellent reputation for advocacy is matched equally by our reputation for drafting and advisory services, at all levels.

Keating Chambers' work in the UK includes disputes of various sizes related to construction, infrastructure, and energy projects including related PFI and professional negligence matters. In addition, amongst our members there is a strong cohort of procurement lawyers, as well as renowned planning expertise. Large scale construction and infrastructure projects, power plants and shipbuilding disputes are key areas of our international work.

Barristers at Keating Chambers regularly appear in litigation in the Technology & Construction Court, the Commercial Court, the Court of Appeal, the Privy Council and the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court, as well as in domestic arbitration, international arbitration (conducted under all major arbitral institutions), adjudication and mediation. With a number of our members having a dual qualification in engineering, including civil, electrical and chemical, we are well-equipped to handle disputes involving complex technical issues.

We have well established links overseas, including international members permanently based in either Australia, Hong Kong or India. Members of chambers' international experience brings with it a familiarity of both procedural and substantive law in numerous jurisdictions, together with a keen ability to work closely with lawyers and clients with diverse backgrounds. Our members are well positioned to provide commercial and practical advice, together with a first rate flexible and client-focused service, worldwide. A number of members of chambers have working knowledge of various languages including Arabic, French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Norwegian, Persian, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, and Yoruba.

In addition to work as counsel, individuals at Keating Chambers are frequently appointed as arbitrators, adjudicators, experts (in the context of expert determination), and mediators.Several senior barristers also sit in the UK Courts as Deputy High Court Judges in the Technology and Construction Court and Recorders in Crown and County Courts.

Members are authors of the seminal practitioner textbook in the field, Keating on Construction Contracts (now in its 12th Edition), and other staple industry texts include ‘Keating on NEC’, ‘Keating on Offshore Construction and Marine Engineering Contracts’ and the ‘Keating Construction Dispute Resolution Handbook’.