Brick Court Chambers is ‘a premium set reliably delivering a very premium service’ with members frequently involved in matters relating to energy sector M&A, joint ventures, investments, and asset purchases. In Spottiswoode v Nexans (Power Cables CPO), Helen Davies KC acted for electrical cable producer Prysmian in an application seeking £300m in damages in respect of the supply of high-voltage underground and submarine power cables connecting onshore and offshore windfarms to the UK power network. Edward Ho is representing Naftogaz in a dispute with the Russian state concerning assets seized when it invaded Crimea in 2014, seeking to enforce arbitral awards in jurisdictions around the world. Charlotte Thomas, acted for the defence in Shandong Offshore v Andresen & Anor, a case concerning the project management of an offshore oil project.
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Position
Charlotte is an in-demand senior junior whose practice covers all aspects of commercial and competition litigation and arbitration together with EU and public law. She was Legal 500’s Competition Junior of the Year in 2022 (and nominated again in 2025). Client have commented on her “brilliant and creative legal mind” and called her “forensic, hugely knowledgeable and good-humoured throughout”. She is instructed in many of the leading competition cases including regulatory appeals, CPO cases for both defendants and claimants, private damages actions, and merger advice, while significant recent commercial instructions have encompassed auditor’s negligence, civil fraud, and securities litigation, as well as numerous commercial arbitrations.
The wide-ranging nature of her practice makes her particularly well suited to considering novel and complex factual and legal situations which may straddle multiple practice areas. She has developed particular expertise in the financial services, life sciences, energy & natural resources, and software sectors.
Charlotte is fluent in French and German, has a working knowledge of Spanish, and has studied some Italian and Serbian/Croatian. She is called to the Irish Bar.
Career
Stagiaire, Shearman & Sterling LLP International Arbitration Group, Paris (2011); Teaching Fellow in Contract Law, University College London (2012-13); Visiting Tutor and Examiner in Contract Law (2012-13); Admissions interviewer, Balliol College, Oxford (2013) and Emmanuel College, Cambridge (2014-15); Pupillage at Brick Court Chambers (2013-14); Judicial Assistant to Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony and Lord Sumption, Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (2014-15).
Languages
French; German; Spanish.
Memberships
BEG; ALBA; COMBAR; LCLCBA.
Education
Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, BA (Hons) in Law (2010): Double First; University Prizes in contract, criminal and constitutional law. Harvard Law School, LLM (2011): Dean’s Scholar; fully funded by Herchel Smith Scholarship; Writing Prize for conflict of laws; Fellow of the Project on the Foundations of Private Law. Lincoln College, University of Oxford, BCL (2012): Distinction; Eldon Scholarship (2013); Essex Court Scholarship; Peter Birks Prize for restitution of unjust enrichment. Kaplan Law School, BPTC (2013): Outstanding; Advocacy Scholarship; Queen Mother Scholarship and Harmsworth Entrance Exhibition from Middle Temple.
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