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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

Thomas Corby

Thomas Corby

Call: 2011

Languages: Spanish (proficient)

Thomas has a varied commercial practice, with a focus on international arbitration, energy, insurance/reinsurance, banking and shipping.

He has extensive experience of arbitrations under a variety of rules, both as sole counsel and led. This includes acting as sole English counsel in high-value international arbitrations, including a gas-price review arbitration in Munich, an arbitration in Panama City arising under a contract for the sale of oil, and a construction arbitration in Milan.

Thomas also regularly appears as sole counsel, and with a leader, in the Court of Appeal and High Court. He has significant and recent experience of applications for anti-suit injunctions, worldwide freezing injunctions and applications under the Arbitration Act 1996.

He was highly recommended in Legal Week’s “Stars of the Bar 2017”.

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Super bright, inspires confidence, excellent on paper. A real star.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2023

He is decisive, super-bright, user-friendly and inspires confidence.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2023

Thomas's strengths include skilful cross-examinations.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

He is extremely hard-working, very clever and a real pleasure work with.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

Thomas is brilliant on paper and on his feet. He is very hands-on and user-friendly.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

Incredibly hard-working, spectacularly clever, always polite whatever the provocation, and above all a pleasure to work with.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

Thomas is brilliant on paper and on his feet. He is very hands-on and user-friendly.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

Extremely diligent, thorough, knowledgeable and strategic, he provides an excellent service to his instructing solicitors.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

He is extremely hard-working, very clever and a real pleasure work with.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

He is hard-working, approachable and experienced. He copes with big cases well.

Chambers UK Bar 2021

Absolutely excellent and very user-friendly; nothing is too much trouble.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2021

He is commercial, prompt and user-friendly. He adds value and takes initiative.

Chambers UK Bar 2021

A rising star who is particularly recommended for shipping and commodities matters.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2021

He is always fully prepared, highly persuasive and sensitive to the nuances of advocacy before tribunals and courts.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2020

His work product is first class. His turnaround time, attitude and client management also impress.

Chambers UK Bar 2020

A rising star who will undoubtedly take silk, he is clever, reassuring and user-friendly with a sharp legal mind.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2020

He's exactly what you want from counsel – good on the black letter law as well as commercially minded." "He's extremely thorough, well prepared and diligent.

Chambers UK Bar 2020

He is approachable, reliable and brilliant on paper.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2018

Excellent to work with, he has a very strong intellect, is extremely hardworking and very responsive.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2018

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