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Chambers of Romie Tager QC

10 ESSEX STREET, LONDON, WC2R 3AA, ENGLAND
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Work 020 7420 9500
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Selborne Chambers is a leading commercial Chancery set. Many of its members are regularly named as leaders in their field by leading legal directories. The set offers expertise in a broad range of areas, including commercial, property and company, insolvency, professional negligence, financial services, equity and trusts, and fraud and asset recovery.

The set: Selborne Chambers is noted for the clear and practical advice it provides, which can be innovative when required, and members are always mindful of clients’ commercial considerations. This approach has also been recognised by the leading legal directories, and is reflected in frequent praise of members across a number of practice areas. Selborne Chambers recognises the benefits of working closely with those instructing and lay clients, and the breadth of ability in chambers allows members with expertise in complimentary areas to work together in teams to deliver appropriate skills to service clients’ needs. Chambers is also aware that the overall service it delivers is as important as the cost-effective legal advice and representation it can offer, and the set is also frequently praised in the leading legal directories for the quality of its service, including its friendly communication with clients and helpful and reliable clerking.

Types of work undertaken: Members are instructed in a wide variety of commercial Chancery areas, with particular emphasis on business matters (at both litigious and transactional stages); company and financial services; corporate and personal insolvency; real property; residential and commercial landlord and tenant disputes; trusts and estates work; international and offshore work; civil fraud and asset recovery. Professional negligence is covered in all these fields, particularly in relation to solicitors, valuers, accountants, professional trustees and financial managers and advisors. Much of the work is done in London, though members frequently advise and appear for clients in other parts of the United Kingdom and in other foreign jurisdictions (including the US, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Channel Islands, Singapore, Hong Kong, Bangladesh and Israel). Advocacy and advice is provided for every level of civil tribunal in England and Wales, as well as in domestic and international arbitrations and mediations. Chambers also has several niche areas of practice such as regulatory work, gambling and betting disputes, sports law, and telecommunications.

Members regularly write on a broad range of subjects and contribute to the legal press.

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