Twenty Essex has deep experience in commercial chancery, company, commercial litigation and offshore litigation and arbitration for high-net worth individuals, their families, private banks and other advisers and institutional clients (including international banks, funds and trust companies). This covers a range of matters spanning contentious trust and probate issues, undue influence, charitable and family company matters and commercial contract disputes, fraud cases and shareholder disputes. Barristers with specific expertise in this field draw upon their market-leading specialisms in other practice areas such as arbitration, insolvency, fraud and asset tracing.

Several members are admitted to the Bars of the Eastern Caribbean (British Virgin Islands) and the Bars of Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Nevis and St Kitts, the Turks and Caicos, Brunei Darussalam, Guernsey and the Isle of Man for specific cases.