SILK PROFILE

Chloe Carpenter KC

UK Bar 2026

Fountain Court Chambers

Ranked in 1 practice area

Professional Discipline

London (Bar)

17 years ranked

About

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Practice Areas

All areas of commercial law (in particular commercial litigation, banking, financial services, professional negligence, legal professional privilege), disciplinary and regulatory work and administrative and public law. Recent cases include: Alexander v West Bromwich Mortgage Company Ltd [2015] EWHC 135 (Comm), [2016] EWCA Civ 496; acting for the first defendant in Al Khorafi v Sarasin-Alpen in the appeal in the DIFC Court of Appeal; Al Sulaiman v Credit Suisse and Plurimi [2013] EWHC 400 (Comm); Leeds City Council and Newham v Barclays Bank Plc [2021] 2 WLR 1180; Law Society v Baxendale-Walker [2006] 3 All ER 675, [2007] 3 All ER 330, [2008] 1 W.L.R. 426; Thaker v SRA [2012] EWHC 432 (Admin); acting for the SRA in Lumsdon v LSB, BSB & SRA [2014] EWHC 28 (Admin); Law Society v Blavo [2017] 1 WLR 4514, [2019] 1 WLR 1977; Beety v NMC [2017] EWHC 3232 (Admin); SRA v Main [2018] EWHC 3666 (Admin); SRA v Malins [2018] EWCA Civ 366; SRA v James, Macgregor and Naylor [2019] 2 All E.R. 527; acting for Baker McKenzie in SRA v Senior and others; acting for the respondent in SRA v Mishcon de Reya, acting for the respondent in SRA v Bretherton.

Chloe is a CEDR accredited mediator and also sits as an arbitrator.

Career

Called to the Bar 2001. Educated at Impington Village College; Hills Road Sixth Form College; Kings College London (LLB, 1st class, 1999) and Brasenose College, Oxford (BCL, Distinction, 2000). Member of Fountain Court Chambers since 2002. Took Silk in 2020.

Professional Memberships

COMBAR, ARDL.

Publications

Contributor to The Law of Privilege, edited by Bankim Thanki KC and Tamara Oppenheimer KC (4th edition, 2025, Oxford University Press); joint author of Law of Bank Payments (5th edition, Sweet & Maxwell, 2018); contributor to Disciplinary and Regulatory Proceedings (10th edition, LexisNexis, 2019); author of the sections on legal professional privilege in Cordery on Legal Services (LexisNexis, 2025).

Chambers Review

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UK Bar

Professional Discipline - London (Bar)

Band 2

Individual Editorial

Chloe Carpenter KC has a strong reputation in the field of professional discipline, particularly as it relates to solicitors and barristers. She is also skilled in matters involving financial services, insolvency practitioners and the London Metal Exchange regulatory scheme. She habitually acts for the SRA and is especially adept at advisory work on behalf of both regulators and the regulated.

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Strengths

Provided by Chambers

Chloe is brilliant. She is incredibly attentive to detail and scared of nothing, very supportive and good at dealing with difficult matters.
Professional DisciplineUK Bar
Chloe Carpenter KC is excellent at disciplinary cases. She's really hard-working and user-friendly. She always keeps a steady keel.
Professional DisciplineUK Bar
Chloe is tremendous, a true expert in solicitors' regulatory matters. She has an empathetic style but an intellectual tenacity.
Professional DisciplineUK Bar
You know you are in safe and capable hands with Chloe.
Professional DisciplineUK Bar