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Luke Pearce KC
Work Department
- Arbitration and mediation
- Banking and finance
- Civil fraud and asset tracing
- Commercial law
- Energy and natural resources
- Insurance and reinsurance
- Private international law
- Shipping
- Sport
Position
Luke has a broad practice covering all aspects of commercial law, with a particular emphasis on banking and finance, international arbitration, shipping & commodities and civil fraud.
He regularly appears in the High Court and Court of Appeal, as well as before arbitral tribunals under a variety of rules. He has also appeared three times in the Supreme Court.
Luke is recommended in the Chambers UK and The Legal 500 guides as a leading junior in the fields of (1) commercial dispute resolution; (2) banking and finance; (3) international arbitration; (4) shipping; and (5) commodities. In 2021, he was shortlisted by Chambers and Partners for the award of ‘International Arbitration Junior of the Year’. He has also been shortlisted twice by The Legal 500 and once by Chambers and Partners for the award of ‘Shipping junior of the year’. In 2013 he was named by Legal Week as one of their ‘Stars of the Bar’ under ten years’ call.
Before coming to the Bar, Luke taught contract law at Worcester College, Oxford and King’s College, London.
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Languages
French (proficient); Portuguese (proficient); Spanish (conversational)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Shipping
(2023 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Luke Pearce KC –Twenty Essex ‘Very high-quality written work and a polished advocate.’
(2023 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1London Bar > Banking and finance (including consumer credit)
(2023 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Luke Pearce KC – Twenty Essex ‘An excellent young silk. Clear, confident and a pleasure to deal with. He has a very bright future.‘
Twenty Essex represents financial services providers and their clients in a range of fora across a full spectrum of banking, financial services, and asset management disputes. Members of the set are often instructed to obtain, or seek the discharge of, freezing injunctions and other interim relief in relation to banking and investment disputes, which include instructions both for and against major financial institutions. Andrew Fulton KC is noted as ‘intellectually very able, and extremely knowledgeable‘ on banking law, while Luke Pearce KC has appeared in a number of high-profile banking cases in recent years. Paul Lowenstein KC has an extensive practice encompassing fraud into the context of banking and finance cases involving major banks.
London Bar > Energy
(2023 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Luke Pearce KC – Twenty Essex ‘Really smart, agile, conscientious, and unflappable under pressure, Luke is impressive on his feet.’
London Bar > Insurance and reinsurance
Twenty Essex covers a full spectrum of commercial insurance and reinsurance disputes, both in arbitration and in court. Members, including Charles Kimmins KC, have acted in large market disputes and have been instructed for policyholders, insurers and reinsurers, both domestically and internationally. Philip Edey KC acted for a major Middle Eastern retailer seeking to recover under its business interruption insurance policies for lockdown-related losses to its operations in the Middle East in Al Mana v Fidelity and Libano, whereas Susannah Jones has developed an impressive practice, with significant work in high-value reinsurance arbitrations. Luke Pearce KC was appointed silk in 2023.
London Bar > International arbitration: counsel
(2023 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1London Bar > Commodities
(2023 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Luke Pearce KC –Twenty Essex ‘Luke is incredibly bright and impressive on his feet, and he sees the good arguments and articulates them very clearly and persuasively.’