Twenty Essex
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Awarded leading set in UK Bar 2026
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Overview
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A leading commercial set of chambers, the barristers of Twenty Essex offer outstanding legal minds, with a modern and commercial disputes experience. Practices involve the preparation and conduct of litigation before a wide range of courts and tribunals, in the UK and foreign jurisdictions, as well as on the international stage. The set is also home to a number of highly respected international arbitrators and mediators, a number of whom were previously judges either in the UK or overseas.
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Clients include major global companies, institutions, governments and their advisors from around the world and its barristers advise and appear as advocates in court or arbitration in relation to a broad range of company and commercial, EU, competition, and public international law disputes. The vast majority of the work is international in nature and the set has well-established links to many overseas markets, including through its Asian hub in Singapore.
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Greater London
20 Essex Street , London, Greater London, UK, WC2R 3AL, London
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Members
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- Philip Edey KC (1994, KC: 2009)
- Charles Kimmins KC (1994, KC: 2010)
- Timothy Young KC (1977, KC: 1996)
- Christopher Hancock KC (1983, KC: 2000)
- Duncan Matthews KC (1986, KC: 2002)
- Sir Daniel Bethlehem KC (1988, KC: 2003)
- Stephen Atherton KC (1989, KC: 2006)
- Timothy Hill KC (1990, KC: 2009)
- Paul Lowenstein KC (1988, KC: 2009)
- Michael Coburn KC (1990, KC: 2010)
- Gordon Nardell KC (1995, KC: 2010)
- Michael Ashcroft KC (1997, KC: 2011)
- Lawrence Akka KC (1991, KC: 2012)
- Sara Masters KC (1993, KC: 2012)
- Michael Collett KC (1995, KC: 2013)
- David Lewis KC (1999, KC: 2014)
- Thomas Raphael KC (1999, KC: 2015)
- Wendy Miles KC (2020, KC: 2015)
- Andrew Ayres KC (1996, KC: 2015)
- Sudhanshu Swaroop KC (1997, KC: 2016)
- Julian Kenny KC (1997, KC: 2016)
- Guglielmo Verdirame KC (2006, KC: 2019)
- Nakul Dewan KC (2014, KC: 2025; SA: 2019)
- Henry Byam-Cook KC (2000, KC: 2020)
- Blair Leahy KC (2001, KC: 2020)
- Philip Riches KC (2001, KC: 2020)
- Andrew Fulton KC (1999, KC: 2021)
- Jonathon Redwood SC (2013, SC: 2020)
- Simon C Milnes KC (2005, KC: 2022)
- Albert Dinelli KC (2014, KC: 2022)
- Sir Michael Wood KC (1968, KC: 2023)
- Luke Pearce KC (2007, KC: 2023)
- Josephine Davies KC (2006, KC: 2024)
- Oliver Caplin KC (2012, KC: 2024)
- Daniel Kalderimis KC (2021, NZ KC: 2024)
- Angharad Parry KC (2002, KC: 2025)
- Julie Anderson (1993)
- Susannah Jones (1999)
- Sean Snook (2000)
- Socrates Papadopoulos (2001)
- Baiju Vasani (2001)
- Simon Olleson (2002)
- Colleen Hanley (2003)
- Daniel Bovensiepen (2004)
- Harris Bor (2006)
- Patricia Edwards (2006)
- Sarah Tresman (2008)
- Stefan Talmon (2007)
- Penelope Nevill (2010)
- Rupert Hamilton (2010)
- Thomas Corby (2011)
- Mahnaz Malik (2012)
- Alex Carless (2012)
- Stephen Du (2012)
- Richard Greenberg (2013)
- Matthew McGhee (2013)
- Andrew Feld (2013)
- Andrew Dinsmore (2013)
- Joshua Folkard (2013)
- Monica Feria-Tinta (2014)
- Belinda McRae (2014)
- Alexander Thompson (2014)
- Kate Parlett (2015)
- Sam Goodman (2015)
- Alistair Wooder (2015)
- Jonathan Ketcheson (2016)
- Philippa Webb (2016)
- Mark Tushingham (2016)
- Patrick Dunn-Walsh (2012)
- Michael Hain (2017)
- Fiona Whiteside (2017)
- Kevin Lee (2017)
- Matthew Chan (2018)
- Edward Gilmore (2018)
- Maria Kennedy (2018)
- Fiona Petersen (2018)
- Mark Baldock (2019)
- Manuel Casas (2020)
- Courtney Grafton (2020)
- Talia Zybutz (2020)
- Clementine Makower (2020)
- Paolo Busco (2021)
- Brendan Plant (2019)
- Alexandros Demetriades (2021)
- Matthew McGonagle (2021)
- Dr Rishab Gupta (2021)
- Thomas Wong (2021)
- James Lamming (2022)
- Isabelle Winstanley (2022)
- Alexander Yean (2022)
- Charles Connor (2022)
- Andrew Brown (2023)
- Eliza Bond (2023)
- Jiahui Huang (2023)
- Alicia Lawson (2023)
- Karen Petch (2024)
- Daniel Hodgkinson (2024)
- Sophie Ryan (2024)
- Lukas Swyton (2024)
- Alma Mozetič (2024)
- Payam Akhavan (2025)
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- Arbitrators:
- The Honorable Charles Brower
- Michael Lee
- David St John Sutton J
- William Rowley KC
- Sir Bernard Rix
- David Owen KC
- Michael Tselentis KC
- Professor Julian DM Lew KC
- Dr Michael Moser
- Sir Martin Moore-Bick
- Sir Mark Havelock-Allan
- Clare Ambrose
- Sir Peter Gross
- Lord Glennie
- Nigel Rawding KC
- Professor Hi-Taek Shin
- Sarah Grimmer
- Philippa Charles
- Audley Sheppard KC
- Judge Joan Donoghue
- Michael Coburn KC
- Karen Maxwell
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