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Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific, Katie-Beth Jones, and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our practice management team in London.

London

20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

Contact

Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific, Katie-Beth Jones, and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our practice management team in London.

London

20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

02/10/2019

Disruptive Developments: CIS disputes

Twenty Essex hosted its second Disruptive Developments event last night focusing on disputes in the CIS regions. Many thanks to all who joined us for a stimulating evening of talks and drinks!

Programme

Welcome
Chair: Duncan Matthews QC

Panel 1 – Looking ahead: pre-emptive skirmishes and asset tracing

  • Developing themes in freezing injunctions and proprietary freezing orders
  •  The use of anchor defendants to secure jurisdiction in England
  • Identifying and preserving offshore assets in CIS disputes

Speakers: Paul Lowenstein QC, Malcolm Jarvis, Sarah Tresman

Panel 2 – Investor-state disputes: a changing landscape

  • Latest developments on ‘shell’ companies as investors
  • Crimea BIT disputes
  • GDPR and protection of data and security
  • CIS BIT disputes in a post-Brexit world

Speakers: Guglielmo Verdirame QC, Jonathan Ketcheson, Penelope Nevill, Philip Riches

 

Should you have any further question on the presentation content, please do not hesitate to get in touch at events@twentyessex.com.