Twenty Essex

Arbitration; Banking and financial services; Civil fraud and asset tracing; Commodities and international trade; Company law; Energy and infrastructure; Insolvency and restructuring; Jurisdiction, conflicts and enforcement; Shipping; Technology, media and telecoms

Matthew has a broad practice in commercial litigation and international arbitration. He has particular interests in shipping and international trade, civil fraud, insurance, banking, company and insolvency law, and the conflict of laws. He is comfortable being instructed as part of a team or in his own right.

Matthew has considerable experience of high-value commercial litigation and arbitration. He is currently instructed by the Privinvest Group in Republic of Mozambique v Privinvest and others, a Commercial Court dispute involving claims in excess of US$2 billion, and allegations of bribery and corruption, relating to maritime infrastructure projects in the Republic.

Matthew is also increasingly developing a busy practice as sole counsel. He regularly appears in his own right in the High Court and in arbitration, and recently appeared unled in a 5-day final hearing in a 7-figure HKIAC arbitral dispute involving the sale and shipment of commodities.

Before coming to the Bar, Matthew read law at the University of Oxford and gave tutorials in trusts law to undergraduates as a lecturer of Somerville College, Oxford. During his studies, he obtained a First Class degree and ranked second in the year. He then went on to complete the Bachelor of Civil Law at Oxford with Distinction and the Bar Professional Training Course at City Law School, where he achieved the second-best results in the year.

Matthew is a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese and has a good understanding of the Asian markets. In particular, he maintains a keen interest in the legal industry in Singapore, where he grew up.

Matthew is admitted to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, British Virgin Islands.

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Mandarin Chinese (fluent)