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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 BD Director, Asia Pacific, Lara Quie and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our clerking 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 BD Director, Asia Pacific, Lara Quie and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our clerking 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

Matthew Chan

Matthew Chan

Call: 2018 (England and Wales); 2022 (British Virgin Islands)

Languages: Mandarin Chinese (fluent)

Matthew has a broad practice in commercial litigation and international arbitration. He has particular interests in shipping and international trade, civil fraud, insurance, banking, company and insolvency law, and the conflict of laws. He is ranked as a Rising Star in The Legal 500, which describes him as “bright” and having “experience beyond his years of qualification”.

Matthew acts regularly in high-value commercial litigation and arbitration. He is instructed in, for example: Republic of Mozambique v Privinvest, a US$3 billion+ Commercial Court dispute involving allegations of bribery and corruption in connection with maritime infrastructure projects in the Republic; Green Elite v Fang Ankong, a dispute in the BVI courts and before the Privy Council involving the alleged breach of directors’ duties; and FIMBank v KCH Shipping, a significant section 69 arbitration appeal regarding the temporal scope of the Hague-Visby Rules time bar in misdelivery claims.

Matthew is also increasingly developing a busy practice as sole counsel. He regularly appears in his own right in the High Court and in arbitration. He recently appeared as the sole advocate in a week-long final arbitration hearing involving a seven-figure commodities dispute, and currently acts unled in a US$20 million+ arbitration involving private equity investments in the Cayman Islands.

Before coming to the Bar, Matthew read law at the University of Oxford and gave tutorials in trusts law to undergraduates as a lecturer of Somerville College, Oxford. During his studies, he obtained a First Class degree and ranked second in the year. He then went on to complete the Bachelor of Civil Law at Oxford with Distinction and the Bar Professional Training Course at City Law School, where he achieved the second-best results in the year. He remains interested in academic law, and publishes regularly on issues of commercial law and international arbitration.

Matthew is a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese and has a good understanding of the Asian markets. In particular, he maintains a keen interest in the legal industry in Singapore, where he grew up.

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General commercial disputes

Arbitration

Civil fraud and asset tracing

Banking and financial services

Insurance and reinsurance

Company and insolvency

Commodities & international trade

Energy & infrastructure

Jurisdiction, conflicts and enforcement

Shipping

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Matthew is bright, has experience beyond his years of qualification, and is one of the top junior juniors often chosen by silks to assist on matters.

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