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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

13/01/2012

Stephen Atherton QC and Blair Leahy

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The members of 20 Essex Street are delighted to announce that Stephen Atherton QC and Blair Leahy (formerly of South Square Chambers, Gray’s Inn) will be joining Chambers with effect from 16th January 2012.


               


Stephen is an acknowledged leader in the field of offshore work and insolvency/restructuring. His cases include MF Global (for various clients of the bank), Bernard Madoff (for the liquidators of various “feeder funds” and other investors), Pioneer Freight Futures (for the UK and the BVI liquidators), Lehman Brothers (for the Hong Kong liquidators and for the company’s landlords and various counterparties and clients), Brunei Darussalam v Prince Jefri (for the Government of Brunei and the Brunei Investment Agency), Northern Rock (for the proposed administrators) and Railtrack (for the administrators). Stephen is also a member of  the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean, and has been called to the Bars of Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man for specific cases as well as having rights of audience in Brunei Darussalam for specific cases.


Blair Leahy is recognised as a leading junior in insolvency and corporate recovery work. She has been involved in many of the high profile corporate collapses over the last ten years including Lehman Brothers (for the US Trustee of Lehman Brothers Inc), Nortel (for a counterparty), Madoff (for the English provisional liquidators), Waterford Wedgwood (for the English administrators) and BCCI (for the English liquidators).


Iain Milligan QC, head of Chambers at 20 Essex Street says: “We are absolutely delighted to have such well recognised experts in their field wishing to join 20 Essex Street. Stephen and Blair will give Chambers the capability to expand into areas where all too often we have had to refer the work elsewhere.  It is a genuine pleasure to have individuals of this calibre join us.   20 Essex Street has always welcomed applications from such people.”


The arrival of Stephen Atherton QC and Blair Leahy provides 20 Essex Street with a greater insolvency and company law capability which will enable Chambers to offer clients a more comprehensive range of legal services. This complements the current areas of expertise that are available in Chambers and reinforces the profile of 20 Essex Street as one of the leading and most forward looking sets of international commercial chambers.


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