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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

Technology, media and telecoms

Barristers at Twenty Essex are highly experienced and innovative in their approach to cases involving or about technology, in managing complex precedent-setting cases and in achieving excellent outcomes for clients. A particular USP of Twenty Essex barristers is their extensive commercial and international and expertise, which they bring to tech cases.

Members are very regularly involved in litigation, arbitrations and advising on disputes and legal issues concerning the full range of technology and media businesses, from software giants, international telecoms companies and broadcasters, to start-ups, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs and in disputes where technology techniques and applications are at their heart.

A great strength of Twenty Essex’s technology-focussed barristers is their recognised deep and broad experience in international litigation, contract, fraud and data cases concerning technology issues or where the solution involves the application of tech-based techniques.

Recent cases have included claims relating to software licence misuse algorithmic trading, performance delays and service provision in multi-million pound outsourcing and transformation contracts; broadcasting satellites; the Internet; data protection and breaches; sales of technology companies; cyber-and technical fraud; cases involving hacking and cyber ransom attacks and cyber warfare and disruption, including by State actors.

A particular area of specialism is in cases involving the transfer of money and cryptocurrency and assets across the international financial and banking system and the blockchain.

Twenty Essex barristers’ breadth of experience enables them to respond to the particular complexities that arise from technological innovation, risks and threats in, amongst others, the financial, insurance and energy sectors.

Members have written and contributed to books and articles on a range of key issues, including IT project disputes, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, cyber and tech fraud, cryptoassets and blockchain. Two members of Twenty Essex were authors of the seminal ‘UK Jurisdiction Taskforce’s Legal Statement on Smart Contracts and Cryptoassets’, which has formed the basis for the development of the ‘law of cryptocurrencies’ across the Commonwealth

Charles Connor

Call: 2022

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Isabelle Winstanley

Call: 2022

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Kevin Lee

Call: 2013 (Singapore); 2017 (England and Wales)

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Philippa Charles

Call: 2002 (Solicitor-Advocate, Higher Courts of England & Wales); 1999 (Solicitor, England & Wales)

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Baiju Vasani

Call: 2001

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Matthew McGonagle

Call: 2021

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Alexandros Demetriades

Call: 2021 (England and Wales); 2021 (Cyprus)

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Sarah Grimmer

Call: 1998 (New Zealand); 2023 (Solicitor, Hong Kong)

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Brendan Plant

Call: 2019 (England and Wales); 2004 (Solicitor, Australia)

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Talia Zybutz

Call: 2020

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Manuel Casas

Call: 2012 (Venezuela); 2016 (New York); 2020 (England and Wales)

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Joshua Folkard

Call: 2013 (England and Wales); 2020 (British Virgin Islands)

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Nigel Rawding KC

Silk: 2016 - Call: (Solicitor: 1984)

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Andrew Ayres KC

Silk: 2015 - Call: 1996 (England and Wales); 2019 (British Virgin Islands); 2020 (Cayman Islands)

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Maria Kennedy

Call: 2018 (England and Wales); 2022 (British Virgin Islands)

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Fiona Petersen

Call: 2018

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Wendy Miles KC

Silk: 2015 - Call: 2020 (England and Wales); 1994 (New Zealand); 2000 (Solicitor, England and Wales)

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Matthew Chan

Call: 2018 (England and Wales); 2022 (British Virgin Islands)

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Oliver Caplin KC

Silk: 2024 - Call: 2012

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Paul Lowenstein KC

Silk: 2009 - Call: 1988 (England and Wales); 2019 (British Virgin Islands)

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Susannah Jones

Call: 1999

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Andrew Feld

Call: 2013

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Timothy Young KC

Silk: 1996 - Call: 1977

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Mahnaz Malik

Call: 2002 (New York); 2012 (England and Wales)

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Josephine Davies KC

Silk: 2024 - Call: 2006

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Lawrence Akka KC

Silk: 2012 - Call: 1991

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Sam Goodman

Call: 2015 (England and Wales); 2019 (AIFC); 2022 (British Virgin Islands)

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Dr Michael Moser

Call: 1981 (New York)

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Fiona Whiteside

Call: 2017

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Monica Feria-Tinta

Call: 2014

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Matthew McGhee

Call: 2013

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Sir Mark Havelock-Allan KC

Silk: 1993 - Call: 1974

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Henry Byam-Cook KC

Silk: 2020 - Call: 2000

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Andrew Dinsmore

Call: 2013 (England and Wales); 2018 (Northern Ireland)

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Sara Masters KC

Silk: 2012 - Call: 1993

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Duncan Matthews KC

Silk: 2002 - Call: 1986 (England and Wales); 2003 (BVI)

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