One Essex Court

Ed Peel is a tenant at One Essex Street and also Professor of Law at Oxford University. He was formerly a solicitor and acted as a consultant from 1998-2013, principally for Clifford Chance LLP. He has been instructed in a wide and varied range of complex commercial work, principally in relation to investment, finance, infrastructure and commodities, in both court proceedings and in arbitration. He has a particular expertise in all types of contractual dispute and private international law. He has appeared frequently as an expert witness on English law in foreign proceedings and has been appointed as arbitrator under LCIA rules. Recent cases include: Makdessi v Cavendish Holdings BV [2013] EWCA Civ 1539 (Supreme Court only); Cukurova Finance International Ltd v Alfa Telecom Turkey Ltd [2013] UKPC 2. Recent arbitrations include: ICC arbitration re the failure to close a joint venture agreement; LCIA abitration re claims arising from the import of biodiesel in breach of EU country of origin regulations; ad hoc arbitration re the defective quality of consignments of coal.

Called 2014, Lincoln’s Inn. Professor of law, Universtiy of Oxford 1994-date; consultant, Clifford Chance LLP 1998-2013. Publications include: ‘Treitel: The Law of Contract’, ‘Winfield & Jolowicz on Tort’, ‘Halsbury’s Laws of England’ vol 22 (contract).

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Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Oxford University (Exeter College and St John’s College), (1986 BA, 1993 BCL, 1994 MA).

Sport of most varieties, gardening.