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Provided by Matthew Kennedy
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Matthew joined chambers in 2018 upon successful completion of his pupillage. He has a busy practice spanning competition law, data protection law, commercial law (including arbitration), public law, and public international law.
Matthew acts both led and unled. Since becoming a tenant, he has appeared unled in the Commercial Court on four occasions and recently appeared unled in the Competition Appeal Tribunal. Matthew has particular expertise in group claims, having acted in and advised on numerous group claims in both the competition and data protection fields.
Prior to joining chambers, Matthew worked for a number of years in the international arbitration group at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, a leading US firm. Matthew graduated from the University of Oxford (St. Hugh’s) with a first in history and subsequently achieved a first on the LLM at the University of Cambridge (St. John’s), graduating third in his year.