Twenty Essex

Heads of Chambers: Philip Edey KC, Charles Kimmins KC

CEO: Jemma Tagg

Practice Directors:

Arron Zitver: 020 7842 1205, 07908 256 043, [email protected]

Christopher Theobald: 020 7842 1210, 07983 403 900, [email protected]

Anthony Carroll: 020 7842 1230, 07928 655 787, [email protected]

Tenants: 116 at 1/12/24

The Chambers

A leading commercial set of chambers, the barristers of Twenty Essex offer outstanding legal minds combined with a modern and commercial disputes experience. Its 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. Practices involve the preparation and conduct of litigation before a wide range of courts and tribunals, in the UK, in foreign jurisdictions as well as on the international stage.

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 servicing clients throughout Asia Pacific and beyond. The set is also home to a number of highly respected domestic and international arbitrators and mediators, some of whom were previously judges either in the UK or overseas.

Main areas of practice

Commercial dispute resolution

Members advise and act in relation to the full spectrum of commercial disputes and have particular expertise in disputes with an international dimension. Virtually all members deal with aspects of EU law and are amongst the leaders in their field for EU competition law, EU jurisdiction and Brexit advice. Areas of commercial expertise include: ADR, aviation, banking and finance, chancery, company and partnership, civil fraud, construction, energy and natural resources, IT, insolvency and restructuring, insurance/re- insurance, IP, media disputes, professional negligence and sports law.

Insolvency, company law & offshore

Members are well known for their expertise in contentious and non- contentious restructurings, insolvency law and company law, spanning all business and industry sectors. They regularly advise and represent insolvency office-holders, companies, creditors, shareholders and company directors and have been heavily involved in many of the recent major restructurings and insolvencies. Members are valued for their offshore expertise and handle a high volume of instructions in this area.

Public international law

Twenty Essex is pre-eminent in public international law. The specialist members regularly provide legal and strategic advice to States and other parties and appear before English courts at all levels in cases in which issues of public international law arise, as well as before international courts and tribunals. Members also have a wealth of experience in investor state disputes.

International arbitration

Twenty Essex has a strong reputation as a leading arbitration set. It has a team of 15 leading full time international arbitrators in addition to barrister members who act as advocates and arbitrators in international commercial disputes under the auspices of all of the major institutions as well as ad hoc and specialist commodity tribunals. Members also accept appointments as inquiry chairs, mediators and experts.

Shipping & international trade

The set has an outstanding reputation for all aspects of shipping and international trade disputes, involving admiralty, construction, energy, finance, insurance, insolvency and restructuring, international trade, commodities and international maritime law.