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Joint Heads of Chambers: Ewan McQuater KC & David Quest KC
Chambers Director: Stewart Thompson
Senior Practice Managers: Stephen Penson & Stuart Pullum
Tenants: 97
THE CHAMBERS 3VB is a leading barristers’ chambers providing specialist advocacy and advisory services worldwide in all areas of commercial and financial litigation, dispute resolution, international arbitration and public international law, with many highly prominent legal practitioners across the world. Members advise and represent clients in court, arbitration and other tribunals in England, other jurisdictions worldwide and internationally. 3VB’s approachable and responsive members and practice managers understand the pressures on solicitors and clients and the importance of providing a superb quality of service, in which legal excellence is combined with a commercial attitude.
WORK UNDERTAKEN 3VB has a genuine depth of experience across the full range of commercial litigation, from banking and financial services to company law, insurance, professional negligence, insolvency, commercial fraud, IT and media and entertainment. Its members are regularly instructed by the leading law firms in the major pieces of commercial litigation of the day, and often act in teams on various sides of major disputes. Chambers has a strong reputation in domestic and international arbitration, including significant experience of investment treaty disputes and cases involving energy, natural resources and infrastructure. 3VB has substantial experience of international work, in both litigation and arbitration. Members are frequently instructed by lawyers from other jurisdictions and are accustomed to working in multi-jurisdictional teams. They have particular experience of disputes arising in the Caribbean, the Gulf States, the post-Soviet states and the Asia-Pacific region. As well as acting as counsel, many of its members and impressive array of international associate members sit as arbitrators, under all the major arbitration rules. 3VB’s members also undertake non-contentious work, such as drafting terms and conditions in contracts for financial institutions and commercial clients, and advising clients on the effects of new law.
RECRUITMENT 3VB offers up to five pupillages a year and also considers applications as lateral hires from barristers with established, excellent practices.
- Ewan McQuater KC (1985) (KC-2003)
- David Quest KC (1993) (KC-2013)
- Adrian Beltrami KC (1989) (KC-2008)
- Ali Malek KC (1980) (KC-1996)
- John Jarvis KC (1970) (KC-1989)
- Christopher Symons KC (1972) (KC-1989)
- Richard Salter KC (1975) (KC-1995)
- Michael Blair KC (1965) (KC-1996) (Hon Causa)
- Hodge Malek KC (1983) (KC-1999)
- Andrew Sutcliffe KC (1983) (KC-2001)
- Andrew Onslow KC (1982) (KC-2002)
- Rory Phillips KC (1984) (KC-2002)
- Tom Weitzman KC (1984) (KC-2003)
- Andrew Fletcher KC (1980) (KC-2006)
- Jonathan Nash KC (1986) (KC-2006)
- Hefin Rees KC (1992) (KC-2013)
- Jonathan Davies-Jones KC (1994) (KC-2013)
- Matthew Hardwick KC (1994) (KC-2014)
- Ewan McKendrick KC (1998) (KC-2015)
- David Head KC (1995) (KC-2016)
- Tom Montagu Smith KC (2001) (KC-2017)
- Ian Wilson KC (1995) (KC-2018)
- Jamie Riley KC (1995) (KC-2019)
- Peter de Verneuil Smith KC (1998) (KC-2019)
- Nicholas Craig KC (1998) (KC-2019)
- Christopher Harris KC (2002) (KC-2019)
- Rajesh Pillai KC(2002) (KC-2020)
- Matthew Parker KC (1997) (KC-2021)
- Saima Hanif KC (2002) (KC-2021)
- Adam Kramer KC (2004) (KC-2021)
- Farhaz Khan KC (2005) (KC-2022)
- Peter Cranfield (1982)
- Michael Lazarus (1987)
- Angharad Start (1988)
- Peter Ratcliffe (1998)
- Sophie Mallinckrodt (1999)
- Tariq Baloch (2001)
- Jane Davies Evans (2001)
- William Edwards (2002)
- George McPherson (2003)
- David Simpson (2003)
- Lisa Lacob (2004)
- Charlotte Eborall (2004)
- Richard Hanke (2006)
- Robert Purves (2007)
- Alexia Knight (2007)
- Christopher Bond (2008)
- Philip Hinks (2008)
- Anne Jeavons (2008)
- Adam Temple (2008)
- Kate Holderness (2008)
- Liisa Lahti (2009)
- Tom De Vecchi (2009)
- Theodor van Sante (2009)
- Tom Rainsbury (2010)
- Christopher Burdin (2010)
- Teniola Onabanjo (2010)
- Miriam Schmelzer (2010)
- Ian Higgins (2011)
- Yash Bheeroo (2011)
- James Potts (2011)
- Cleon Catsambis (2011)
- James McWilliams (2011)
- Scott Ralston (2012)
- Antony Pavlovich (2012)
- Mark Wassouf (2014)
- Sarah Tulip (2012)
- Matthew Watson (2012)
- Pia Dutton (2013)
- Emmanuel Sheppard (2013)
- Georges Chalfoun (2014)
- Hannah Glover (2013)
- Victor Steinmetz (2014)
- Cameron Miles (2015)
- Rebecca Zaman (2015)
- Dominic Kennelly (2016)
- William Day (2016)
- Ryan Ferro (2017)
- Sophia Dzwig (2017)
- Ravi Jackson (2017)
- Ivana Daskalova (2018)
- Clarissa Jones (2018)
- Judy Fu (2019)
- Calum Mulderrig (2019)
- Sarah Parker (2016)
- Anca Bunda (2019)
- Chinmayi Sharma (2020)
- Rumen Cholakov (2021)
- Paul Bonner Hughes (2021)
- Gretel Scott (2021)
- Katherine Boucher (2021)
- Devon Airey (2022)
- Amy Gregg (2023)
- Tan Sri Dato’ Cecil Abraham ++
- Elizabeth Birch ++
- Sir William Blair ++
- Stavros Brekoulakis ++
- Richard Brent QC ++
- The Hon Ian Binnie CC QC ++
- Lee C Buchheit ++
- Sir Ross Cranston ++
- Sir Peter Cresswell ++
- Clive Freedman ++
- Catherine Gibaud QC ++
- Sean Hagan +
- Kaj Hober ++
- D. Brian King ++
- Christopher Lau SC ++
- Felicity Maher ++
- Mansoor Jamal Malik ++
- Thierry Marembert ++
- John Lorn McDougall QC ++
- Sophie Nappert ++
- Sir Robert Nelson ++
- Nayla Comair-Obeid ++
- Sir Stephen Silber ++
- Gopal Subramanium ++
- Attila Tanzi ++
- Jose Maurellet SC ++
- Thomas C Baxter **
- ++ Associate Member
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