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Twenty Essex

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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.

Industry sectors (14)

  • Commercial litigation & arbitration
  • Banking & financial services
  • Civil fraud & asset recovery
  • Company law
  • Energy & infrastructure
  • Environment & climate change
  • Insolvency & restructuring
  • Insurance & reinsurance
  • Intellectual property
  • Investment treaty arbitration
  • Jurisdiction, conflicts & enforcement
  • Public international law
  • Shipping, international trade & commodities
  • Technology, cyber & crypto

Key people

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  • Philip Edey KC

    Co-Head of Chambers

  • Charles Kimmins KC

    Co-Head of Chambers

  • Jemma Tagg

    Chief Executive Officer

  • Anthony Carroll

    Practice Director

  • Christopher Theobald

    Practice Director

  • Arron Zitver

    Practice Director

  • Catherine Reeves

    Arbitrators' Head of Practice

  • Katie-Beth Jones

    Head of Business Development, Asia-Pacific

Work & experience

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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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UK - Head office

Greater London

20 Essex Street, London, Greater London, UK, WC2R 3AL, London

www.twentyessex.com

(020) 7842 1200

Ranked Practice Areas at Twenty Essex (12)

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Ranked Barristers at Twenty Essex (147)

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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)
  • 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)
  • Philippa Webb KC (2016, KC: 2026)
  • 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)
  • Mark Tushingham (2016)
  • Patrick Dunn-Walsh (2012)
  • Michael Hain (2017)
  • Fiona Whiteside (2017)
  • Kevin Lee (2017)
  • Matthew Chan (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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