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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

27/03/2023

Luke Pearce and Sir Michael Wood sworn in as King’s Counsel today

A huge congratulations to Luke Pearce who is sworn in as King’s Counsel today at the Silks ceremony in Westminster Hall. Sir Michael Wood also receives a very well-deserved honorary KC appointment.

Luke has a broad commercial practice, with a particular focus on banking and finance, international arbitration, shipping & commodities, and civil fraud. 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.

Sir Michael began practising at the Bar after serving as a lawyer in the FCO for 35 years and as principal Legal Adviser 1999-2006. Since then, he has acted for many governments in cases before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and inter-state arbitral tribunals.

Speaking on his appointment, Luke said “I am delighted to be taking silk today and am very much looking forward to the next stage of my career.”

Sir Michael notes that “it is a great honour to be made a KC; in particular, it reflects the importance of the collegial work of the UN International Law Commission.”

We send our congratulations to all the 2023 Silks.

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Luke Pearce KC Sir Michael Wood KC
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