Quadrant Chambers
UK Bar Guide 2025
About
Head of Chambers: Poonam Melwani KC
Chief Operating Officer: Peter Blair
Senior Clerks: Simon Slattery
Tenants: 75
THE CHAMBERS
Quadrant Chambers is widely recognised as one of the leading commercial sets. Quadrant’s barristers provide outstanding advocacy in court, arbitration and inquiries, and expert advice across the whole spectrum of commercial law, both nationally and internationally. The set also offers highly experienced arbitrators, mediators and expert witnesses. Quadrant members are renowned for their approachability, responsiveness, for working closely with their clients and for being aware of their concerns and priorities. Chambers uses an external organisation to appraise members’ relationships with clients and uses that feedback to improve service annually. Chambers has a highly motivated support team of clerks and administrative staff who are noted for their commitment to providing the highest level of support and service to all with whom they work. Quadrant has a modern and flexible attitude to structuring fees.
WORK UNDERTAKEN
Quadrant Chambers holds a pre-eminent international position in shipping, commodities, energy, insurance, aviation and travel. Quadrant’s specialist areas of expertise include: aviation, banking, commercial dispute resolution, energy and natural resources, fraud, insolvency, insurance and re-insurance, international arbitration, international trade and commodities, professional negligence, shipbuilding and offshore construction, shipping and maritime. Members of chambers and arbitrator members also accept appointments as inquiry chairs, arbitrators and mediators.
INTERNATIONAL
A large proportion of Quadrant’s work is for international clients or involves international commercial law. Members have appeared as advocates and expert witnesses before courts and tribunals worldwide and several have been called to the bars of other jurisdictions including those of Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Dubai, BVI, Pakistan, Gibraltar, New South Wales, California, New York, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland and South Africa.
For more details please visit the Quadrant website at www.quadrantchambers.com
- Poonam Melwani KC (1989) (KC-2011)
- Michael N Howard KC (1971) (KC-1986)
- Lionel Persey KC (1981) (KC-1997)
- Simon Rainey KC (1982) (KC-2000)
- Luke Parsons KC (1985) (KC-2003)
- Nigel Jacobs KC (1983) (KC-2006)
- Simon Croall KC (1986) (KC-2008)
- Nigel Cooper KC (1987) (KC-2010)
- Paul Downes KC (1991) (KC-2010)
- Robert Thomas KC (1992) (KC-2011)
- Chirag Karia KC (1988) (KC-2012)
- James M Turner KC (1990) (KC-2013)
- Michael Davey KC (1990) (KC-2014)
- John Russell KC (1993) (KC-2014)
- Guy Blackwood KC (1997) (KC-2014)
- Michael Nolan KC (1981) (KC-2015)
- John Passmore KC (1992) (KC-2015)
- John Kimbell KC (1995) (KC-2015)
- Robert-Jan Temmink KC (1996) (KC-2017)
- Thomas Macey-Dare KC (1994) (KC-2018)
- Yash Kulkarni KC (1998) (KC-2018)
- Chris Smith KC (1999) (KC-2019)
- Stewart Buckingham KC (1996) (KC-2020)
- Jeremy Richmond (2000) (KC-2020)
- Nichola Warrender (1995) (KC-2021)
- Matthew Reeve KC (1987) (KC-2023)
- Paul Toms KC (2003) (KC - 2024)
- Nevil Phillips (1992)
- Alexander Uff (1998)
- Claire Stockford (1999)
- Ruth Hosking (2002)
- Nicola Allsop (2002)
- James Shirley (2002)
- Caroline Pounds (2003)
- Emmet Coldrick (2004)
- Paul Henton (2004)
- Saira Paruk (2004)
- Turlough Stone (2004)
- David Semark (2002)
- Emily Saunderson (2005)
- Stewart Chirnside (2005)
- Gemma Morgan (2006)
- Joseph Sullivan (2008)
- Gaurav Sharma (2006)
- Natalie Moore (2007)
- Benjamin Coffer (2008)
- Stephanie Barrett (2008)
- Claudia Wilmot-Smith (2008)
- Peter Stevenson (2008)
- Henry Ellis (2008)
- Christopher Jay (2009)
- Ben Gardner (2010)
- Andrew Leung (2010)
- Simon Oakes (2010)
- Mark Stiggelbout (2011)
- Tom Bird (2011)
- Joseph England (2011)
- Andrew Carruth (2013)
- Max Davidson (2013)
- Michael Proctor (2013)
- Koye Akoni (2014)
- Craig Williams (2014)
- Jamie Hamblen (2017)
- William Mitchell (2017)
- Tom Nixon (2017)
- Robert Ward (2018)
- Celine Honey (2019)
- Benjamin Joseph (2019)
- Maya Chilaeva (2020)
- Lydia Myers (2020)
- Joseph Gourgey (2021)
- Sam Mitchell (2021)
- Jakob Reckhenrich (2019)
- Tom Hall (2022)
- Caleb Kirton (2022)
- Conor Fenton-Garvey (2023)
- Jamie Farmer (2023)
- Michael Nguyen-Kim (2023)
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- LondonQuadrant House, 10 Fleet Street, London, Greater London, UK, EC4Y 1AU
- Web: www.quadrantchambers.com
- Tel: (020) 7583 4444
- Fax: (020) 7583 4455
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