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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

04/01/2023

Two new silks appointed at Twenty Essex

Congratulations to Luke Pearce for his successful application to be appointed as King’s Counsel (KC) for 2023. Sir Michael Wood has also received a very well-deserved honorary KC appointment.

Luke Pearce has a broad practice covering all aspects of commercial law, with a particular emphasis on banking and finance, international arbitration, shipping & commodities and civil fraud. In recent years he has been instructed in some of the most high profile and high value disputes before the English Courts and arbitration tribunals, including Al Sadeq v Dechert, Halliburton v Chubb, and the RBS Rights Issue Action. He has substantial experience conducting advocacy both in Court and arbitration (under a variety of rules). He has also appeared numerous times in the Court of Appeal (including twice unled), and three times in the Supreme Court.

Sir Michael Wood began practising at the Bar after serving as a lawyer in the FCO for 35 years and as principal Legal Adviser 1999-2006. His current and past caseload includes complex and high profile ICJ, ITLOS, and inter-State arbitral matters as well as cases before the highest courts in the UK. He is senior fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, and was a member of the UN International Law Commission from 2008 to 2022.

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Luke Pearce KC Sir Michael Wood KC
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