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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

Alexandros Demetriades

Alexandros Demetriades

Call: 2021 (England and Wales); 2021 (Cyprus)

Languages: Greek (fluent)

Alex has developed a broad practice, extending across all of Chambers’ core practice areas, with a particular focus on shipping, general commercial litigation, international arbitration, the conflict of laws and public international law. He enjoys working as sole counsel or as part of a team.

He has experience of interim and procedural applications made before the courts and in arbitration. Recently, he was instructed by the claimant/applicant in the Renaissance v Chlodwig litigation, where the Commercial Court granted an anti-suit and anti-anti-suit injunction to enforce a London arbitration agreement, restraining foreign proceedings which would have enabled the circumvention of the sanctions regime.

Alex regularly acts in a range of shipping disputes and has been instructed in a number of LMAA arbitrations. He has undertaken a secondment at a city firm, specialising in contentious shipping work, where he spent five weeks advising on claims arising under time charterparties, voyage charterparties and bills of lading.

He has experience advising on jurisdiction and applicable law in a variety of different contexts. To complement his international practice, Alex is also qualified as an advocate in Cyprus, passing the Cyprus Bar Exams with distinction, and has advised on questions of Cypriot law.

Before joining Chambers, Alex undertook a Blue Book Traineeship at the Contract Law Unit of the DG for Justice and Consumers (European Commission). He contributed to the unit’s work in developing policies to remove private law obstacles for the use of smart contracts and in monitoring the implementation of the Digital Content Directive and the Sale of Goods Directive by Member States. He has also interned at the DG for Human Rights (Council of Europe) and has worked on cases before the ECtHR prior to transferring to the Bar.

Alex studied Law at the University of Cambridge and has obtained an LLM specialising in Competition, Innovation and Trade law from LSE. He completed his two-year military service in the Cypriot National Guard as a cadet officer and was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant by the end of his service.

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