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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

Paolo Busco

Paolo Busco

Call: 2014 (Italy); 2017 (Registered as a European lawyer with the Bar of England and Wales); 2021 (England and Wales)

Languages: Italian (fluent); Spanish (fluent); French (proficient)

Paolo practices in the fields of public international law and international dispute settlement, with a specific interest in matters concerning the interaction between international law and diplomacy. He is qualified both in Italy as an “avvocato” and, as a barrister, in England and Wales. He is well-versed both in common law and civil law and has appeared before courts in both systems. Paolo has also been a legal advisor to senior Government officials, including Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Defense and Home Affairs in Italy and in the Middle East, working across the full spectrum of international law and relations.

He has been involved as counsel in matters before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the Court of Justice of the European Union, ICSID investment tribunals, Annex VII to UNCLOS arbitral tribunals, and several domestic courts. Paolo also has significant experience in inter-State negotiations and mediations, which he developed in various advisory capacities in the context of complex political and diplomatic disputes.

Before qualifying as a barrister, Paolo practiced international law in several capacities. Among other things, he worked as a senior legal consultant to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations in Riyadh and, before that, as an Assistant Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. He trained as a lawyer at the Office of the Attorney General of Italy. He holds law degrees from Luiss University in Rome (LLB), the University of Cambridge (LLM) as well as the University of Paris 1 Sorbonne and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa (PhD).

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Paolo Busco is a rare combination of solid international law competence and ability in international affairs. He has a proactive approach and a refined sense of strategy.

Chambers UK Bar 2024

Paolo is an extremely bright lawyer, a resourceful advocate, and an excellent scholar. He impresses with the width of his legal knowledge, spanning the whole spectrum of public international law – including, the law of the sea, jurisdictional immunities, human rights, humanitarian law, and general dispute resolution.

The Legal 500 UK Bar 2024

He's stunningly good.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

I've always been impressed by his initiative.

Chambers UK Bar 2023

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