Members of 20 Essex Street are well known for their expertise in contentious and non-contentious restructurings (including schemes of arrangement), insolvency law and company law, spanning all business and industry sectors. In the context of restructurings and insolvency, members of 20 Essex Street regularly advise and represent insolvency office holders, companies, creditors, shareholders and company […]
20 Essex Street has a strong reputation as a leading arbitration set. It has an exclusive team of 18 leading international arbitrators from around the globe. In addition, the set has 60 barrister members who act as advocates and arbitrators under all of the world’s major institutions’ auspices. The firm’s high-quality silks and juniors deal […]
Members of 20 Essex Street have strength and depth of expertise in disputes concerning energy and natural resources. Many members are instructed in cases involving exploration and exploitation disputes, production sharing contracts, joint venture agreements, the design, construction and upgrade of oil and gas installations (on and off shore), drilling contracts, pipeline disputes, energy taxation […]
A number of members of 20 Essex Street specialise in the substantive law of the EU and in UK and EU competition law. Virtually all members deal with aspects of EU law regularly in their practice. A number have experience of working in the European Court of Justice, at the European Commission and for UK […]
Members of 20 Essex Street have a high level of expertise in cases involving civil fraud and asset tracing, especially those cases with an international element. Members have been involved in some of the most complex and high-value cases of recent years. From acting regularly in such cases, members of chambers have great experience in […]
20 Essex Street has for many years been involved in some of the most significant cases in this area. These have included: the bank charges litigation; assorted ‘credit crunch’ litigation arising out of the collapses of Lehmans, Kaupthing, MF Globaland other financial institutions; the RBS rights issue litigation; the Cukurova FINCARs litigation; and leading cases […]
Most members of 20 Essex Street both advise and act as advocates in relation to all types of commercial disputes and have particular expertise in disputes with an international dimension. These may be resolved in the English and Welsh courts, by institutional or ad-hoc international arbitration or by London maritime and commodity trade arbitrations. Members […]
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has elected former Herbert Smith corporate head James Palmer as its new senior partner to succeed Jonathan Scott. Palmer was elected in a global partner vote on Friday (7 November 2014). He will take up the role on 1 February 2015 for three years. Although the senior partner role also encompasses […]
The head of Norton Rose Fulbright’s global energy practice is relocating from London to Sydney to focus on transactions in the Asia Pacific region. Simon Currie, who joined pre-merger Norton Rose’s London energy practice 17 years ago, is to make the move in January 2015. In the wake of Norton Rose’s 2010 merger with Australia’s […]
Santander has finalised its latest panel review, upping the total number of firms on its main legal roster from about 24 to 30. Firms including Ashurst, Bird & Bird, Nabarro and Slaughter and May are understood to been gifted spots in the review, which came to a close in the summer. Santander’s general counsel Karen […]
The Ivory Coast Bar Association has opened proceedings against Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe following the firm’s launch of an affiliated office in the country, with plans to go to court if necessary. In the wake of Orrick’s launch in the Ivory Coast last month through the opening of affiliated Orrick RCI (20 October 2014), the […]
European investment group Aurelius has kicked off its first-ever UK legal panel review, following the hire of its first UK head of legal Kimberley Whitaker. Whitaker joined the group in March 2014, helping to launch its first office in London in April (4 August 2014). Aurelius intends to keep the majority of its legal advice […]