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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 McGhee

Matthew McGhee

Call: 2013

Matthew enjoys a broad commercial practice. Clients instruct him to advise or act in national and international litigation and arbitrations across Chambers’ practice areas.

Matthew has a particular interest in cybersecurity matters, being ranked as a Band 2 Junior for crypto & blockchain asset work by The Legal 500 UK Bar 2024 and having authored ‘A Practical Guide to Cyber Fraud Litigation’. He is also ranked as a Band 4 Junior for Shipping & Commodities by Chambers and Partners UK Bar 2024 & 2023 (and was named as a Rising Star in Shipping by The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022 & 2021). Other recent cases have focused on company and insolvency matters, civil fraud, and banking disputes.

As well as acting as sole counsel, Matthew has extensive experience of being instructed as part of a team in large and complex commercial disputes. He appreciates and enjoys the different demands of these cases and the need to work efficiently and effectively with legal and other professionals.

Matthew is frequently instructed to obtain or resist emergency relief, often at short notice, in order to protect his clients’ positions. This has included applications for freezing orders, disclosure orders, interim receiverships, interim declarations and other bespoke injunctions, including against persons unknown.

Matthew also accepts instructions to act on a direct access basis or to provide advice in non-contentious situations. He has previously given expert evidence on English law for use in foreign proceedings and has also provided opinions by way of early neutral evaluation. Matthew also teaches Company Law (and previously Equity & Trusts) at Queen Mary University London and is an external examiner in professional ethics for the Bar Standards Board.

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Arbitration

Banking and financial services

Civil fraud and asset tracing

Commodities and international trade

Company law

Energy and infrastructure

Insolvency and restructuring

Jurisdiction, conflicts and enforcement

Shipping

Technology, media and telecoms

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He is exceptional and adept in his cross-examination.

Chambers and Partners UK Bar 2024

Matthew has a fantastic skill set, a sharp eye for detail and a commercial, practical approach.

Chambers and Partners UK Bar 2024

Matthew is excellent in both his legal and commercial approach.

Chambers and Partners UK Bar 2024

Matt understands the important issues and knows what is important to instructing solicitors.

Chambers and Partners UK Bar 2023

Matthew is hugely hard-working, and has knowledge and instinct beyond his years.

Chambers and Partners UK Bar 2023

Matthew advises us on a complicated area of law with creativity, force and foresight.

Chambers and Partners UK Bar 2023

A honed analytical mind with knowledge beyond his years. Extremely user friendly with excellent communication skills. Thoroughly recommended.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

Matt understands the important issues and knows what is important to instructing solicitors

Chambers and Partners UK Bar 2023

Matthew is hugely hard-working, and has knowledge and instinct beyond his years.

Chambers and Partners UK Bar 2023

A bright, clear thinker, who has demonstrated a knack for devising creative legal arguments.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2021

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