Competition

Leading Juniors
Rising stars

Leading Juniors

Leading juniors are those with significant experience of key cases, strong market recognition from both peers and clients, and are seen as future candidates for silk.

Alan Bates

Monckton Chambers

'Alan invariably advocates in a measured and carefully considered manner, and watching his real-time work in the tribunal can feel like a masterclass in advocacy, so controlled and effective is his approach. Alan eschews dramatics and showmanship, providing instead something much more valuable to his clients: a certainty that they are in best possible hands'

James Bourke

Monckton Chambers

'James is an excellent drafter and very quick in the uptake. He is flexible and very client friendly. He is curious and driven to really understand the facts of cases and the technology involved. I think he is truly excellent.'

Christopher Brown

Matrix Chambers

'Excellent competition knowledge. Christopher stands out in a field of exceptional barristers practicing in one of the most complex and rapidly developing fields of law.'

Nicholas Gibson

Matrix Chambers

'Nicholas is establishing a strong competition litigation practice. He is an effective advocate and easy to work with.'

Julian Gregory

Monckton Chambers

‘Excellent and clear in making submissions, good style, explains things clearly but across the detail. Generally excellent all rounder, leading the case, designing strategy, advising the team. Proactive and nice to work with.’

Hugo Leith

Brick Court Chambers

'He has a first-rate intellect, wonderful written and oral advocacy skills, and really impeccable judgment in terms of which points will, and will not, play out well in court. He also has great strategic awareness, coupled with strong tactical senses to execute his strategic thinking. He is also well able to leverage his considerable commercial law experience into competition litigation.'

Sarah Love

Brick Court Chambers

‘Undoubtedly one of the cleverest juniors at the competition Bar and now also one of the most experienced. Sarah is also a great pleasure to work with. An obvious pick for the biggest and most complex cases.’

Paul Luckhurst

Blackstone Chambers

'Paul is a forensically careful and measured barrister. He's really bright and has a fantastic memory. He's totally reliable and has a great eye for detail.'

Suzanne Rab

Matrix Chambers

‘Suzanne is a clear, forceful and convincing advocate. Her great strength is combining a world-class intellect with a real business brain.’

Ben Rayment

Monckton Chambers

'Ben has the excellent judgement that comes from being a hugely experienced junior. A great asset to any team. His written and oral advocacy are first-class.'

Alison Berridge

Monckton Chambers

‘Alison is stratospherically clever, and practical to boot. She is absolutely the barrister you want in your corner on competition matters.’

Anneliese Blackwood

Monckton Chambers

Tom Coates

Blackstone Chambers

‘Tom is extremely bright, pragmatic, personable and responsive. His drafting is top notch and his advocacy is measured and persuasive. A real pleasure to work with.’

Nikolaus Grubeck

Monckton Chambers

'Nikolas is a first rate barrister who is very versatile and provides clear and cogent advocacy on a wide range of competition matters. He has excellent cross-disciplinary knowledge and always sees how the competition analysis fits into the wider case theory. On top of that, he's a pleasure to work with.'

Laura Elizabeth John

Monckton Chambers

Tim Johnston

Brick Court Chambers

'Tim is a great junior with a terrific instinct for the points that matter and already a formidable advocate in his own right.'

Matthew Kennedy

Brick Court Chambers

'Offers an ideal blend of measured and commanding presence on his feet. Forensic understanding of some of the most complex issues that tend to arise in this area, and is able to explain them in a simple and strategic way.'

Stefan Kuppen

Monckton Chambers

'Stefan is a classy advocate, with an understated and intelligent style.'

Daisy Mackersie

Monckton Chambers

'Incredibly bright, thoughtful and measured and a pleasure to work with.'

Jennifer MacLeod

Brick Court Chambers

'Jenny is the full package: she is a forensic powerhouse and extremely tactically sharp as well. All of this combined this with an indefatigable work ethic. She is one of, if not the best, competition juniors at the Bar. Her advocacy is second to none.'

Ravi Mehta

Blackstone Chambers

‘Excellent knowledge of the law and written work.’

Emma Mockford

Brick Court Chambers

'Emma is incredibly clever and quick - she's always a step ahead and can see just where an argument is going. She never stops thinking about a case or turning issues over in her mind. She's approachable and easy to work with; solicitors and clients love her. She's great at working in a large team of counsel or co-defendants.'

Julianne Kerr Morrison

Monckton Chambers

‘Julianne is a junior who can hold her own against silks of any level, she can lead or support as the case requires. A wonderful advocate and a fabulous team player.’

Emily Neill

Blackstone Chambers

'Emily's written work is clear, concise and very persuasive. She is pragmatic, very responsive and a real pleasure to work with.'

Ligia Osepciu

Monckton Chambers

Gerard Rothschild

Brick Court Chambers

'Gerard has phenomenal attention to detail. He is highly responsive, so turns documents around quickly and is a very safe pair of hands. His advocacy is characteristically thorough and methodical, which seems to land well with judges, and his level of preparation and communication beforehand gives the solicitor team and client confidence going into hearings that he will be able to field questions and deal with ad hoc developments as they arise.'

Thomas Sebastian

Essex Court Chambers

Charlotte Thomas

Brick Court Chambers

'Charlotte has a fantastic worth ethic, her drafting is crisp and persuasive, and her sense of strategy is great. She is a real team player, makes herself available, and has a fantastic grasp of the law in this area.'

Jack Williams

Monckton Chambers

‘Jack is a fantastic junior – tremendously hardworking and a great team player. Also good on his feet.’

Michael Armitage

Monckton Chambers

'Michael is a formidable advocate and a highly valued team player. He has a capacious intelligence and a formidable work ethic which is allied to a set of natural gifts. Michael is the sort of barrister you would like to have on your side, especially in lengthy and complicated trials. His cross examination is meticulously prepared and his delivery is excellent and attractive. An excellent advocate.'

Fiona Banks

Monckton Chambers

'Fiona is extremely incisive with excellent attention to detail and legal analysis. She is incredibly smart, hard-working and responsive, and able to work well as part of a larger team and when under pressure.'

Daniel Benedyk

One Essex Court

Isabel Buchanan

Blackstone Chambers

'Isabel is a brilliant junior for competition law claims. She is exceptionally clever and very astute. A confident communicator.'

Daniel Carall-Green

Fountain Court Chambers

‘Daniel is an exceptionally good senior junior. Both his written and oral advocacy are extremely strong. Daniel operates at silk level, and is also useful, friendly and commercially astute.’

Owain Draper

One Essex Court

David Gregory

Monckton Chambers

'David is fantastically bright, while also extremely collaborative and a very clear communicator. He is a highly effective operator, and remains very calm under pressure.'

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David Heaton

Brick Court Chambers

'Extremely thorough, very diligent barrister with a real focus on the points that matter.'

Hollie Higgins

Blackstone Chambers

'Hollie is head and shoulders above other junior barristers of similar call. She is consistently excellent: incredibly hard-working, her written work is thorough, and she is willing to get fully involved in the less glamorous bits of conducting a trial. '

Ben Lewy

One Essex Court

Andrew Lomas

One Essex Court

Kristina Lukacova

Monckton Chambers

‘She has a first-rate intellect, excellent oral and written advocacy skills, and first-rate judgement. Nothing fazes her, which is an excellent quality in litigation. She is also able to leverage a first-rate commercial law practice to great effect in competition law.’

Emily MacKenzie

Brick Court Chambers

'A brilliant and charming junior barrister who can turn her hand to anything with great aplomb.'

Ciar McAndrew

Monckton Chambers

‘Ciar is one of the most talented and reliable juniors at the competition Bar. Her analysis is always utterly rigorous and her judgment is impeccable. She is a can-do junior for whom nothing is too much trouble.’

Conor McCarthy

Monckton Chambers

'Conor has a fine mind and thinks and writes with great clarity and comprehensiveness. He is flexible and user-friendly dealing with clients and firm when necessary, in the interests of the case. He has an excellent sense of strategy and of how various arguments might play out in Court. Conor is a delight to work with and a strong and assured team player.'

Andrew McIntyre

Brick Court Chambers

‘Andrew is totally reliable, a completely safe pair of hands and incredibly calm in all possible circumstances. He is really good at legal research and at thinking through legal arguments. He is creative and assertive in his client’s interests.’

Sarah O’Keeffe

Brick Court Chambers

‘Sarah is the complete package: diligent and thorough in her research; clever and thoughtful in her analysis; clear and cogent in her written and oral expression; and dependable, indefatigable and good-humoured at all times.’

Matthew O’Regan

Matrix Chambers

‘Very knowledgeable about sector and provides prompt, user-friendly advice.’

Tom Pascoe

Brick Court Chambers

‘He is a very clear thinker and is able to cut through issues, provides excellent strategic advice and is extremely proactive and happy to lend support. He is very down to earth and easy to work with.’

Gayatri Sarathy

Blackstone Chambers

‘Gayatri is a brilliant junior for competition litigation claims and for group actions. She is a strategic and shrewd thinker, very responsive and focused on her clients, and drafts cogently and concisely.’

Max Schaefer

Brick Court Chambers

‘Max is an exceptional senior junior. His written submissions are brilliant, clear and persuasive. He balances a range of cases but always seems to find the time to advise. He is clever, personable and pleasure to deal with. He acts across a range of the most high-profile cases in the market. His ability to grapple with complex technical evidence is also very impressive.’

Oscar Schonfeld

One Essex Court

‘Oscar is an absolute star. His understanding of economics is simply amazing – he is a huge asset to a competition litigation team as he is able to engage with the economic experts as if he himself is on their team.’

Jonathan Scott

Brick Court Chambers

'Jon is exceptionally clever and an extremely quick worker. He has great intellectual self-confidence and is always willing and keen to attack any problem. He thinks laterally and often has ideas that have not occurred to others.'

Kelly Stricklin-Coutinho

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Simon Taylor

Keating Chambers

‘Very precise, analytical and thoughtful. Clear and pragmatic in providing advice. Personable and engaging.’

James White

Henderson Chambers

‘Very smart, hard working and thorough.’

Rising stars

Rising stars at the Bar are defined as barristers between four and eight years’ call who are seen as up-and-coming members of the Bar in their respective practice areas by clients and peers alike. They will already be instructed in high-profile, complex, and high-value contentious and non-contentious matters, working with and opposite more experienced leading counsel.

Greg Adey

One Essex Court

Alfred Artley

Monckton Chambers

‘He is intellectually astute, delight to work with and an assured advocate. Calm, measured and effective.’

Lucinda Cunningham

Matrix Chambers

Antonia Fitzpatrick

Monckton Chambers

'Antonia is simply first class. Leaders and senior juniors love her as do clients. Her advocacy is incredibly good for her level of call, and her commercial approach to cases coupled with her thorough understanding of the law mean she is in high demand.'

Jenn Lawrence

Monckton Chambers

‘Jenn is very bright and pleasant to work with. Her written advocacy is fantastic as are her quick understanding of complex issues. She has a great future ahead of her.’

Joshua Pemberton

Brick Court Chambers

'Josh is an up-and-coming competition junior who has been instructed in some of the key cases. He is a delight to work with - clever, dedicated and hugely personable.'

Will Perry

Monckton Chambers

Extremely bright, hardworking, friendly and absolutely on top of this area. He is measured in his advice and able to clarity out of complexity.'

Michael Quayle

Brick Court Chambers

‘Michael’s written advocacy is outstanding. His written submissions are clear and persuasive and he presents complex legal arguments with admirable simplicity. Michael is tirelessly hard working and passionate.’

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