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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

Wendy Miles KC

Wendy Miles KC

Silk: 2015 Call: 2020 (England and Wales); 1994 (New Zealand); 2000 (Solicitor, England and Wales)

Wendy is a specialist in international arbitration and dispute resolution with a focus on private and public international law.

With over 25 years of experience, Wendy has advised on international law matters and conducted arbitrations under all the major institutions and ad hoc. She has advised a wide range of multinationals, including corporates, sovereign States and State entities and multilateral State organisations.

Wendy has assisted clients across numerous sectors, including energy, natural resources, banking, insurance, financial services, gaming, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, licensing, telecommunications and construction. She has sat as arbitrator since 2005, as sole, co-arbitrator and chair under most major arbitral institutions. Wendy has been appointed by the United Kingdom to the ICSID Panel of arbitrators and ICSID Panel of conciliators effective from 10 November 2020.

In the field of climate change and finance, Wendy acts as global coordinating counsel to various major corporates in relation to climate change transition, disclosure, reporting, compliance and investment. She regularly advises investors and States in respect of climate related physical, transition and litigation risk. She works closely with a number of States in relation to climate transition regulatory structures to mobilise finance and formulate climate investment policy. She also works closely with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and has represented it at the Conferences of the Parties on climate since 2015.

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Wendy is extremely intelligent, combining a deep understanding of both the law and the most complex factual matrices. She is a systemic thinker and excellent advocate.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2024

Wendy is very kind, very thorough and always at the top of her game.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Wendy is a leading thinker on climate law.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2024

Wendy Miles is very efficient, personable and experienced.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

She is a real leading voice for making sure that climate-related disputes at an international level are effectively and efficiently resolved.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

Thinks outside the box to preserve the client’s interest in the best way possible.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2023

She is very responsive and commercially savvy.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

She is willing to invest the time and effort to learn everything to give the best possible representation.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

A trusted arbitrator for complex international matters.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

She's vastly knowledgeable, an excellent advocate and a thoughtful arbitrator.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

She's enormously responsive and the heavyweight on the team because of her expertise in this area.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

Intelligent, hard working and always displays common sense.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

She's a big name in the market.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

Wendy has great analytical skills and thinks through all the details.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

Particularly good at arbitrations involving public international law disputes.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2022

She adjusts her approach for those with different temperaments.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

She's collegial and accessible.

Chambers UK Bar 2022

Very smart and proactive.

Chambers UK Bar 2021

She is incredibly commercial and very practical, as well as being very strong technically.

Chambers Global 2020

Very organised and diligent.

Chambers UK Bar 2021

Leading individual in international commercial arbitration and recommended in the editorial in public international law.

The Legal 500 UK 2020

Leading light described by interviewees as an exceptional partner who unravels the complex material.

Chambers Global 2020

The Legal 500 inaugural International Arbitration Powerlist 2020

Particularly noted for her long-standing ICC expertise, which forms part of her strong commercial advocacy practice.

Chambers Global 2020

Dedicated and technically excellent, while also being commercially minded and savvy and a lawyer who goes the extra mile and is willing and able to take on difficult cases.

The Legal 500 UK 2020

Also well known for her role as arbitrator in a range of disputes.

Chambers Global 2020

Advises a number of prominent clients on high-value arbitration mandates and has extensive ICC expertise.

Chambers UK and Europe 2020

Excellent and draws strong praise for her considerable experience in the field.

Chambers UK 2019

A leading light in the arbitration community and a fantastic, hands-on partner who is visionary in terms of the final goal.

Chambers Global 2019

Well versed in representing clients in large-scale contractual and treaty disputes arising in a wide array of sectors.

Chambers UK 2019

She balances advocacy in commercial arbitrations with sitting as an arbitrator.

Chambers Global 2019

She is also regularly appointed to act as an arbitrator and is based in London.

Chambers UK 2019

Superb and has arbitration running through her veins.

Chambers Europe 2019

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