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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

Twenty Essex
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

Twenty Essex
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

Banking and financial services

Twenty Essex has for many years been involved in some of the most significant disputes in this area, including the seminal Springwell v JP Morgan Chase case; Bank Overdraft Charges Litigation; Mastercard Litigation; RBS Rights Issue Litigation; various derivative mis-selling claims; claims brought by sovereign wealth funds in relation to investments made by them; and the fraud claims by BTA Bank against Mr Ablyazov, and by Vneshprombank against Mr Bedzhamov. The sums at stake are frequently in the billions of US dollars.

Members act across the full spectrum of banking, financial services, FinTech and asset management disputes. This includes cases involving allegations of mis-selling of investments; loan agreements; guarantees; derivatives (very often involving the ISDA Master Agreement); structured products; debt buybacks; and capital markets transactions.

In addition, the expertise of Twenty Essex in international trade means that members have considerable experience in advising on associated trade finance matters (such as letter of credit).

Most of the disputes in which members are involved have a significant international dimension, raising complex jurisdictional issues.

Twenty Essex is often instructed on a very urgent basis to obtain, or seek the discharge of, freezing injunctions and other interim relief in relation to banking and investment disputes.

Members are instructed both for and against major financial institutions.

Philip Edey KC

Silk: 2009 - Call: 1994

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Charles Kimmins KC

Silk: 2010 - Call: 1994

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Timothy Young KC

Silk: 1996 - Call: 1977

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Duncan Matthews KC

Silk: 2002 - Call: 1986

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Stephen Atherton KC

Silk: 2006 - Call: 1989 (England & Wales); 2009 (Bar of the Eastern Caribbean)

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Paul Lowenstein KC

Silk: 2009 - Call: 1988 (England and Wales); 2019 (British Virgin Islands)

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Michael Ashcroft KC

Silk: 2011 - Call: 1997

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Lawrence Akka KC

Silk: 2012 - Call: 1991

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Michael Collett KC

Silk: 2013 - Call: 1995

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David Lewis KC

Silk: 2014 - Call: 1999 (England and Wales); 2017 (British Virgin Islands)

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Thomas Raphael KC

Silk: 2015 - Call: 1999

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Wendy Miles KC

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

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Andrew Ayres KC

Silk: 2015 - Call: 1996 (England & Wales); 2019 (British Virgin Islands); 2020 (Cayman Islands)

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Sudhanshu Swaroop KC

Silk: 2016 - Call: 1997

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Julian Kenny KC

Silk: 2016 - Call: 1997

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Nakul Dewan SA

Silk: 2019 (Senior Advocate) - Call: 2001 (India); 2010 (Singapore); 2014 (England and Wales)

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Henry Byam-Cook KC

Silk: 2020 - Call: 2000

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Blair Leahy KC

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

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Philip Riches KC

Silk: 2020 - Call: 2001 (England & Wales); 2021 (British Virgin Islands)

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Andrew Fulton KC

Silk: 2021 - Call: 1999 (England and Wales); 2003 (New Zealand); 2015 (British Virgin Islands)

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Jonathon Redwood SC

Silk: 2020 SC (New South Wales) - Call: 2013 (England & Wales); 2006 (New South Wales & Victoria); 2002 (New York)

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Tony Beswetherick KC

Silk: 2022 - Call: 2003 (England and Wales); 2019 (British Virgin Islands); 2022 (DIFC)

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Simon C Milnes KC

Silk: 2022 - Call: 2005 (England and Wales); 2010 (British Virgin Islands)

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Malcolm Jarvis

Call: 1998

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Susannah Jones

Call: 1999

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Sean Snook

Call: 2000

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Socrates Papadopoulos

Call: 2001

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Christopher Newman

Call: 2003 (England and Wales); 2017 (British Virgin Islands)

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Daniel Bovensiepen

Call: 2004

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Harris Bor

Call: 2006; 2002 (Solicitor, England and Wales)

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Sarah Tresman

Call: 2008 (England and Wales); 2016 (Cayman Islands); 2021 (British Virgin Islands)

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Luke Pearce

Call: 2007

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Rupert Hamilton

Call: 2010 (England and Wales); 2022 (British Virgin Islands)

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Thomas Corby

Call: 2011

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Alex Carless

Call: 2012

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Richard Greenberg

Call: 2013

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Matthew McGhee

Call: 2013

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Andrew Feld

Call: 2013

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Andrew Dinsmore

Call: 2013 (England and Wales); 2018 (Northern Ireland)

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Joshua Folkard

Call: 2013 (England and Wales); 2020 (British Virgin Islands)

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Monica Feria-Tinta

Call: 2014

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Belinda McRae

Call: 2014

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Alexander Thompson

Call: 2014

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Sam Goodman

Call: 2015 (England and Wales); 2019 (AIFC); 2022 (British Virgin Islands)

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Alistair Wooder

Call: 2015

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Jonathan Ketcheson

Call: 2016

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Mark Tushingham

Call: 2012 (New Zealand); 2016 (England and Wales)

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Patrick Dunn-Walsh

Call: 2012

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Michal Hain

Call: 2017

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Fiona Whiteside

Call: 2017

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Matthew Chan

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

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Edward Gilmore

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

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James Gardner

Call: 2018

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Maria Kennedy

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

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Fiona Petersen

Call: 2018

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Manuel Casas

Call: 2012 (Venezuela); 2016 (New York); 2020 (England & Wales)

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Courtney Grafton

Call: 2020

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Talia Zybutz

Call: 2020

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Daniel Kalderimis

Call: 1999 (New Zealand); 2005 (New York); 2006 (Solicitor, England & Wales); 2021 (Barrister, England & Wales)

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Matthew McGonagle

Call: 2021

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Thomas Wong

Call: 2021 (England & Wales); 2018 (Hong Kong); 2010 (Solicitor, Hong Kong)

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Michael Lee

Call:

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J William Rowley KC

Silk: 1983 - Call: 1970 (Ontario); 1984 (Alberta)

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David Owen KC

Silk: 2006 - Call: 1983

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Michael Tselentis KC

Silk: 1989 (Senior Counsel, South Africa); 2003 (England and Wales) - Call: 1978 (South Africa); 1995 (England and Wales)

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Dr Michael Moser

Call: 1981 (New York)

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Sir Mark Havelock-Allan KC

Silk: 1993 - Call: 1974

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Clare Ambrose

Call: 1992

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Sir Peter Gross

Silk: 1992 - Call: 1977

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Lord Glennie (Angus Glennie)

Silk: 1991 (England & Wales); 1998 (Scotland) - Call: 1974 (England & Wales); 1992 (Scotland)

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Nigel Rawding KC

Silk: 2016 - Call: (Solicitor: 1984)

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Professor Hi-Taek Shin

Call: 1977 (Korea)

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Sarah Grimmer

Call: 1998 (New Zealand)

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