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Rachel Ansell KC

Barrister specialising in commercial litigation and international arbitration with an emphasis on large scale construction projects, professional negligence disputes and insurance claims. Rachel was awarded Construction Silk of the Year at the Chambers Bar Awards 2017.

Terence Bergin KC

Barrister specialising in IT. Cases of note include: AFD Software Ltd v DCML Ltd [2015] EWHC 453 (Ch); AB v CD [2014] EWCA Civ 229; Hamsard 3147 Ltd v Boots UK Ltd [2013] EWHC 3251 (Pat); Southwark v IBN [2011] EWHC 549 (TCC); Data Direct v MRS [2009] EWHC 97 (Ch); Fujitsu Services v EDS (Comm Ct 2007); TTE Team Telecom v Anaste (TCC 2007); NEDDC v ANITE (TCC 2007).

James Bowling

Commercial practice focusing principally on energy and construction (including adjudication). He also specialises in banking, securities and asset-based lending (including commercial fraud). All remedies associated with the above areas, including all forms of pre-emptive relief, in particular freezing and search orders, as well as mediation and alternative dispute resolution. James was awarded Construction Junior of the Year at the Chambers Bar Awards 2017.

Alice Carse

Alice Carse is a highly regarded commercial barrister. She is instructed by businesses to advise on commercial employment issues including protection of confidential information, team moves, bonus disputes, large scale changes to workforces and has a particular specialism in handling industrial relations. Alice’s practice has led to a complementary profile in professional negligence matters involving a wide range of professionals, including solicitors, surveyors and architects, often drawing on coverage issues.

Alex Charlton KC

Barrister specialising in all commercial and technical disputes with particular experience in the following sectors: software and IT, telecommunications, licensing, infrastructure and outsourcing.

Rangan Chatterjee

Ron has a wide-ranging commercial practice which encompasses both litigation and international arbitration. He has particular expertise and experience in commercial and insurance matters (including technology and telecoms), construction, and professional negligence.

Aidan Christie KC

Barrister specialising in general commercial law including insurance and reinsurance, professional negligence (particularly with reference to accountants, brokers, solicitors) and financial services.

Daniel Churcher

Daniel has a commercial practise with particular emphasis on construction, banking and professional negligence. He acts for employers and contractors in a wide range of construction disputes, including arbitrations and adjudications. He has been instructed by major banks in commercial and retail banking disputes, and his professional negligence work includes claims against construction industry professionals as well as solicitors, barristers and valuers.

Thomas Crangle

Junior counsel specialising in technology and construction work and professional negligence. He has wide-ranging experience of litigation, arbitration and adjudication, as well as adjudication enforcement, and has been involved in a number of high-profile and high-value disputes.

James Cross KC

Barrister specialising in construction and engineering (including adjudication), professional negligence (especially construction industry professionals), product liability, property damage (fire, flood etc) and insurance disputes.

Laura Crowley

General commercial law, including construction, insurance and professional negligence.

Michael Davie KC

Barrister specialising in property damage insurance; jurisdiction/choice of law; professional negligence; and commercial matters.

Helen Dennis

General commercial practice in line with chambers’ expertise, specialising in construction, energy, engineering, technology, shipping, shipbuilding and general commercial litigation and arbitration, often involving a cross-border element. Recently instructed as sole counsel on a multi-million pound dispute relating to a high profile energy project, as junior counsel in relation to a high value construction arbitration concerning a significant infrastructure project and to advise on a shipbuilding dispute in relation to termination and operation of refund guarantees. A keen linguist who has been instructed in a number of international disputes involving French and German documents.

Michael Douglas KC

Barrister specialising in commercial, professional negligence and information technology fields.

Allen Dyer

Barrister specialising in professional indemnity, construction, contract and other commercial cases; has specialist knowledge of urgent interim remedies (including freezing injunctions and search orders); clients include accountants, solicitors, architects, civil and structural engineers, surveyors, insurers and construction companies.

Simon Goldstone

Commercial: banking, finance, insurance, commercial fraud. Insolvency and Company. Professional negligence: especially solicitors, auditors, structural engineers. Construction: adjudications, property damage, fire, floods.

Daniel Goodkin

Barrister specialising in commercial litigation, insurance, construction, professional negligence and shipping.

James Hatt

Barrister specialising in commercial law and international arbitration. Substantial experience as an advocate in both trials and interim applications: he has appeared as advocate before many Courts and Tribunals including arbitral Tribunals, the Commercial Court, the Technology and Construction Court and the Court of Appeal, and is experienced in cross-examining both lay and expert witnesses.

Neil Henderson

Shipping and international trade: cargo claims, charterparty disputes, arrests, bunker disputes, shipbuilding disputes, sale and purchase, marine insurance, commodity sales. Commercial litigation and arbitration: private equity, shareholder disputes, banking, insolvency, director disqualification, general contractual disputes. Applications to the High Court in support of arbitration, including freezing injunctions, anti-suit injunctions, inspection orders, jurisdiction disputes, security for costs and applications under ss57, 67, 68 and 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996. Extensive experience of LMAA, ICC and LCIA arbitrations.

Simon Henderson

Barrister specialising in commercial work, with an emphasis on information technology, construction and professional negligence.

Alexander Hickey KC

Barrister specialising in litigation, domestic and international arbitration and adjudication of disputes in construction, engineering, energy oil and gas, petrochemicals, waste management, transport, utilities and shipbuilding industries. His cases involve disputes in the UK and abroad especially Turkey, Middle East and Africa. He undertakes trials in the TCC, Queen’s Bench Division and Chancery Division and has appeared in the Court of Appeal and House of Lords. He is admitted as an advocate in Dubai International Financial Centre Courts. He acts as advocate in LCIA, ICC, DIAC, VIAC, LMAA and UNCITRAL international arbitration. He is an ICC arbitrator and accredited CEDR adjudicator.

Daniel Khoo

Commercial practice including litigation and arbitration with particular experience in civil fraud; banking; energy; jurisdiction challenges and freezing injunctions.

James Leabeater KC

Barrister specialising in general commercial law; especially insurance, shipping, professional negligence and construction.

Jonathan Lewis KC

Commercial barrsiter principally specialising in construction and engineering disputes in litigation, arbitration and adjudication as well as considerable experience in professional negligence work involving construction professionals. Perhaps uniquely, Jonathan also has a wealth of experience of the law of insolvency.

Kate Livesey

General common law and commercial law, including insurance, professional negligence, energy and construction.

(Jonathan) Marks Of Henley-on-Thames KC

Barrister specialising in construction and engineering, commercial dispute resolution, international arbitration and professional negligence, in the Middle East, the UK and elsewhere. Jonathan is often instructed in cases involving highly technical issues and regularly deals with sophisticated expert evidence. Jonathan is also a qualified arbitrator and mediator.

Iain Munro

Professional negligence; commercial; information technology; construction; general common law, shipping, international arbitration.

Martyn Naylor

Barrister with broad commercial experience across all of chambers' principle practice areas. Martyn is regualrly instructed in the County Court and divisions of he High Court in insurance, construction, technology, professional negligence and general commercial matters.

Andrew Neish KC

Barrister specialising in general commercial law including insurance and reinsurance, professional negligence relating to brokers, lawyers, accountants and other financial advisers.

Jeremy Nicholson KC

Barrister and arbitrator specialising in commercial disputes including construction & engineering, energy, insurance and professional negligence; also acts as adjudicator, DB member, and mediator; clients include employers, contractors, insurers, engineers, architects, surveyors, valuers and other professionals; major cases include international arbitrations about construction in Middle East, Far East, and Europe, and many actions before the TCC and elsewhere in the High Court.

Richard Osborne

Barrister specialising in general commercial and common law, including contractual disputes, insurance, construction and professional negligence.

Sanjay Patel KC

General commercial practice in line with chambers’ profile with specialisms in banking, construction, shipping, energy and professional negligence.Sanjay has a strong interest in international work with a rapdily developing practice in the Middle East.

Benjamin Pilling KC

Barrister specialising in commercial litigation, banking and finance, professional negligence, construction and IT.

Alison Potter

Experienced barrister and mediator with experience in commercial, financial services, professional negligence, insurance and reinsurance, costs, construction, planning and environmental law, banking and employment; wide range of advocacy experience both in litigation and arbitration; has also worked as a team member in large commercial and construction disputes.

James Purchas

Barrister specialising in commercial law, including financial services, insurance and reinsurance, and related professional negligence.

John Rowland KC

Insurance and Reinsurance/Construction/Energy and resources/Finance and banking/Arbitration. Admitted to practice in England and Australia, member of the bar in England and Australia (Victoria).

Robert Scrivener

Broad commercial practice, in line with chambers’ expertise. Robert has particular experience of disputes involving construction, energy, shipping, financial services, insurance and professional negligence. Robert regularly appears in court on behalf of banks. He has undertaken secondments with a major bank and with the financial markets dispute resolution department at a major City law firm; been instructed to advise in a coverage dispute under a liability policy; and undertaken professional negligence claims against auditors, insurance brokers and financial services professionals, solicitors, barristers, accountants, engineers and architects.

Gideon Shirazi

Barrister with a broad commercial practice with expertise in banking and finance; commodities; construction; energy; civil fraud; insurance and reinsurance; international arbitration; professional negligence and shipping. Gideon has a rapidly developing reputation for his work in tech & IT with experience in disputes concerning data protection, fraud, hacking and intellectual property.

Fiona Sinclair KC

Specialises in construction, energy, transport, construction professionals’ liability and insurance. First class advocacy and team-management skills honed in complex, high-value disputes on major construction and engineering, energy or transport projects, property damage disputes and all related insurance issues. Fiona’s success in the UK Supreme Court’s first ever construction adjudication case (Aspect Contracts v Higgins Construction, 2015) sealed her reputation as a first choice silk for heavyweight litigation, as well as big-ticket domestic and international arbitration. Enjoys leading multi-disciplinary teams of experts and lawyers to success for the client.

Jessica Stephens KC

Barrister specialising in construction and related professional negligence disputes. Acts for employers, contractors, professional advisers, local authorities and government departments in domestic and international disputes relating to the design and construction of buildings, infrastructure and installations. She has appeared in arbitrations (international and domestic) and the courts, both the TCC and the Commercial Court (in relation to offshore energy disputes). She has experience of all standard form construction and engineering contracts (including JCT, NEC, FIDIC) and PFI/PPP disputes and has significant experience in international arbitrations (LCIA, ICC and LMAA) concerning a variety of subject matters including shipbuilding, offshore energy and infrastructure projects. She has considerable experience of all aspects of adjudication, including advising on and drafting documents within the adjudication process, and has regularly appeared at enforcement hearings, injunctions to restrain the continuation of adjudications and declarations as to the adjudicator’s jurisdiction. Jessica also has experience of disputes concerning fire, floods, asbestos, subsidence and party wall matters as well as related insurance matters. Recent reported cases: Alstom Transport v Eurostar International [2010] EWHC 2747 (Ch), [2011] EWHC 1828 (Ch), [2012] EWHC 28 (Ch); CN Associates v Holbeton [2011] EWHC 43 (TCC); Vertase FLI v Squibb Group [2012] EWHC 3194 (TCC); Roe Brickwork v Wates Construction [2013] EWHC 3417 (TCC); Devon County Council v Celtic BioEnergy [2014] EWHC 309 (TCC); Herboshe-Kiere Marine Contractors v Dover Harbour Board [2012] EWHC 84 (TCC); Lazari v London & Newcastle (Camden) [2013] EWHC 97 (TCC); Birmingham City Council v Paddison Construction [2008] EWHC 2254.

Matthew Thorne

Commercial – broad range of work; insurance – secondment at major international insurance company; construction – including adjudication and litigation; professional negligence – regularly acts on behalf of and against professionals of various disciplines.

Kate Vaughan-Neil

Barrister dealing in general commercial and common law work with an emphasis on professional negligence and employment.

George Woods

Barrister specialising in IT, commercial, insurance and construction work.

Luke Wygas

Luke’s practice focuses on domestic construction, energy, IT and professional negligence (with a particular emphasis on construction professionals) disputes. Luke is a qualified engineer who worked, mainly in the Far East, before coming to the Bar. Recent cases include representing an employer in an international arbitration concerning a power plant in the Middle East, representing an employer in relation to a mining project in Africa and representing a contractor in relation to a prestigious retail development in the Far East. Luke also has experience of fire loss claims, particularly when they include issues of technical complexity and claims arising out of cladding. He is frequently instructed in relation to construction adjudications.

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