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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

Blair Leahy KC

Blair Leahy KC

Silk: 2020 Call: 2001 (England and Wales); 2015 (British Virgin Islands)

Blair has a broad commercial practice with an emphasis on complex multi-jurisdictional fraud claims and disputes with technical insolvency or company law aspects. She is ranked across all her main practice areas in the latest editions of Chambers UK Bar and The Legal 500, and prior to taking silk, won Insolvency Junior of the Year at The Legal 500 UK Bar Awards 2019. She is described in the directories as “all-round excellent” and receives particular praise for her court room skills (“her advocacy is on another level”) and “amazingly good judgment”.

Blair advises and represents clients in both domestic and international court and arbitration proceedings. Her overseas practice includes Cayman, BVI, Bermuda, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Isle of Man and Dubai.

Although she has a busy advisory practice, Blair is above all a litigator. She has extensive trial and cross-examination experience and is also experienced in obtaining and resisting applications for pre-emptive and interlocutory relief, including freezing and disclosure orders and the appointment of provisional liquidators.

Blair also accepts appointments as an arbitrator in commercial disputes.

 

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AREAS OF PRACTICE

Commercial dispute resolution

Civil fraud and asset recovery

Insolvency & restructuring

Company / Banking & finance

International arbitration

Offshore / International

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Publications / talks

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Blair's client service is exceptional. She responds promptly and fully engages in matters. She is down to earth and takes time to offer thoughts on developments before responding becomes necessary.

Chambers UK Bar 2025

Blair has a wealth of knowledge of cross-border fraud, particularly in offshore jurisdictions.

Chambers UK Bar 2025

Blair is lethal in the courtroom. She is very charming but this disguises a real ferocity.

Chambers UK Bar 2025

Blair is a formidable advocate, extremely thorough, commercially astute, technically excellent and fiercely intelligent. She always gets the judge on her side.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2025

Superb and forceful advocacy, excellent advisory and strategic analysis, very user friendly, and available.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2025

Technically strong and very on top of detail as well as strategy. Clients love her.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2025

Blair is one of the most thorough, engaged and responsive silks in the London market, nothing escapes her attention and her ability to communicate in a concise and clear manner is singularly impressive.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2024

An excellent choice for anything insolvency related or fraud focused. She is excellent on her feet.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

She is incredibly intelligent and gives her work a forensic quality.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

We go to her for her commercial judgement.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

A very user friendly KC, who works well with all members of the team however junior. She's a great trial lawyer, whose cross-examinations are excellent, and her management of a case is second to none. Clients are really impressed by her.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Blair has fantastic commercial acumen.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Blair is very much on top of the detail and is also a good leader.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Blair is the complete silk - user-friendly, hard-working, a producer of excellent written work and someone with strong advocacy skills.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

She sees the full picture and takes into account the commercial nuances of the matter.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

Fearless in court and excellent with clients.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

A hard and determined advocate.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

Blair is technically very good. She has a measured style.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

Blair is excellent. She is always prepared to get stuck in, is always approachable and she provides solid commercial advice.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

Very responsive, quick to turn work around, and very good at getting to grips with the factual details of a case.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

A strong new silk who is very responsive and understands the complexities involved in large-scale multi-jurisdictional matters.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

She is on top of her game and gets to the nub of the issues quickly - definitely someone you want on your side.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

An up and coming junior silk, with an incredible work ethic and ability to roll up her sleeves and get stuck in.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

Blair's knowledge of Cayman law and the interplay with English law is impressive.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

Very user-friendly, practical and well prepared. She always meticulously sifts through the documents and thinks through her advice. Possessed of a nice, friendly manner, she is very pleasant to work with.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

She is hard-working, really impressive in court and brilliantly prepared.

Chambers UK Bar 2021

Blair has amazingly good judgment and is an invaluable asset to any team.

Chambers UK Bar 2021

She is all-round excellent.

Chambers UK Bar 2021

She is extremely user friendly and always willing to go the extra mile to make sure that the quality of the work she produces is of outstanding standards.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2021

She is absolutely thorough in what she does and makes sure that she is fully familiar with the issues under consideration, however complex they are. She is also a good advocate and cross-examiner.

Chambers UK Bar 2020

Advice was clear and punchy - she's a complete joy to work with.

Chambers UK Bar 2020

A strong choice for insolvency-related commercial litigation.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2020

She is extremely user friendly and always willing to go the extra mile to make sure that the quality of the work she produces is of an outstanding standard

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2020

She is amazing – her preparation is second to none and she is ready for every eventuality.

Chambers UK Bar 2020

Fantastically industrious. She has a real eye for detail and very sound judgement.

Chambers UK Bar 2019

She is an insolvency intellectual and an impressive and persuasive advocate, guiding complex points in effective ways.

Chambers UK Bar 2019

She's brilliant, a very solid operator who knows what she's doing.

Chambers UK Bar 2019

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