Barristers | Commercial

Michael Kent KC
Year of Call: 1975

Michael Kent KC has an extensive practice in a range of common law fields including personal injuries and disease work; liability insurance; product liability; nuisance and property disputes involving...

David Platt KC
Year of Call: 1987

David Platt KC specialises in occupational disease, personal injury, insurance, health and safety, sports, abuse and inquest work. He also specialises in group litigation.  He undertakes most forms...

Ben Quiney KC
Year of Call: 1998

Recommendations In the recent editions of Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 Ben is identified as a Leading KC in his core areas of work, such as Insurance, Property Damage, Construction and...

Andrew Smith KC
Year of Call: 1988

Andrew Smith KC has over 30 years of experience of litigation in courts at all levels. He has practised at the Scottish Bar (call 1988, silk 2002) and since 2006 at the English Bar. He took silk in...

Isabel Hitching KC
Year of Call: 1992

Isabel Hitching is a commercial silk with a long-established expertise in the issues arising out of large-scale, complex construction and technology projects.  With expertise not only in the...

Daniel Shapiro KC
Year of Call: 1999

Daniel (Danny) Shapiro KC is recognised as “ferociously bright” with “beguiling advocacy skills”. He has extensive trial and appellate advocacy experience in a wide range of commercial...

Crispin Winser KC
Year of Call: 2003

Crispin Winser KC specialises in construction, engineering, energy, insurance, professional liability and general commercial litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution both in the UK and...

Anna Laney KC
Year of Call: 1998

Anna Laney KC is a leading construction barrister, specialising in technically complex infrastructure, engineering and related insurance disputes. During the course of her career, she has acted on a...

John Stevenson
Year of Call: 1975

John Stevenson main areas of practice are clinical negligence, insurance and professional negligence. Other significant areas of work are arbitration, commercial law, construction and personal...

Julian Field
Year of Call: 1980

Julian Field is a senior junior with a commercial practice encompassing property damage, insurance, product liability, contract and tort, commercial fraud and professional negligence. He began his...

Steven Coles
Year of Call: 1983

Steven Coles is regularly instructed in a wide range of insurance-related cases, often policy coverage disputes, also defence of third party claims, and insurers’ subrogated recovery claims –...

James Medd
Year of Call: 1985

James Medd's practice focuses on claims relating to insurance, property damage, product liability and construction. He is consistently ranked in the major legal directories as a leading junior in...

Dermot Woolgar
Year of Call: 1988

Dermot Woolgar has an extensive and diverse civil and commercial practice, with particular expertise in the fields of international commercial arbitration, commercial law, construction and...

Jason Evans-Tovey
Year of Call: 1990

Jason is a litigator whose attention to detail, strong legal, commercial and strategic advice as well as extensive trial and appellate advocacy experience have won him many followers in several fields...

Suzanne Chalmers
Year of Call: 1995

Suzanne Chalmers specialises in insurance, professional negligence, property damage and personal injury as well as dealing with general commercial disputes. Her strength lies in her ability to...

Charles Pimlott
Year of Call: 2001

Charles Pimlott specialises in construction and energy disputes, professional negligence and commercial litigation. Charles is recognised by Chambers & Partners and The Legal...

Michele De Gregorio
Year of Call: 2003

Michele De Gregorio has a broad commercial and common law practice, with many of his cases arising out of insurance related disputes, in the fields of construction and engineering, professional...

Richard Sage
Year of Call: 2006

Richard Sage’s practice is in the fields of construction, professional negligence, insurance, product liability, property damage and general commercial litigation / arbitration. Richard has...

Daniel Shaw
Year of Call: 2007

Daniel has been practising law for over 18 years, and has spent the last 15 years specialising in construction and engineering disputes. He has experience of Technology and Construction litigation,...

Caroline McColgan
Year of Call: 2010

Caroline McColgan joined chambers in October 2011 following successful completion of her pupillage. Since then, she has developed a practice which is strongly focused on insurance, construction,...

Carlo Taczalski
Year of Call: 2010

Carlo specialises in commercial, construction, insurance, and professional negligence matters. He has been recommended in the Legal 500 and Lexology (WWL) as a leading individual in a number of his...

Athena Markides
Year of Call: 2011

Athena Markides practises in all of Chambers’ core areas of work and has particular expertise in insurance, commercial litigation, construction and property damage. She has a particular interest in...

Patrick Maxwell
Year of Call: 2011

Patrick specialises in construction, professional liability, insurance, and commercial disputes. He appears frequently in the High Court, has appeared before the Court of Appeal, and is regularly...

Jack Murphy
Year of Call: 2013

Jack has a specialist criminal regulatory law, inquests and public inquiries, and personal injury practice. His expertise is recognised by rankings in the major legal directories, and he was appointed...

Adam Taylor
Year of Call: 2014

Adam Taylor specialises in sport and international arbitration, professional negligence, property damage, personal injury, insurance fraud, and inquests. Adam first practised at Crown Office...

Sahana Jayakumar
Year of Call: 2014

Sahana has a practice encompassing construction disputes, property damage, professional negligence, commercial litigation and arbitration. Sahana has experience of mastering detailed expert evidence...

Maurice Holmes
Year of Call: 2015

Maurice has a broad practice encompassing the majority of Chambers’ core specialisms, principally with a commercial focus. He has substantial advocacy experience as sole counsel before a variety of...

Juliet Stevens
Year of Call: 2016

Juliet Stevens is a Leading Junior with extensive trial experience. She has a broad practice with a particular interest in personal injury, clinical negligence, product liability, professional...

Michael Harper
Year of Call: 2016

Michael is ranked as a leading junior by the directories in his core practice areas of professional negligence and insurance (and has been for a number of years). This is complemented by Michael’s...

Joshua Brown
Year of Call: 2017

Josh’s practice covers the range of Chambers’ practice areas, with a particular emphasis on commercial disputes, construction, insurance, professional negligence and property damage. As well as...

Andrew Brown
Year of Call: 2017

Andrew has a broad commercial practice spanning construction, insurance, professional negligence and property damage litigation. He has noted expertise in construction and engineering disputes and...

Michael Woollcombe-Clarke
Year of Call: 2018

Michael specialises in complex, high-value commercial litigation, construction & engineering and international arbitration matters. Michael’s experience covers a broad range of practice areas...

Frederick Simpson
Year of Call: 2018

Frederick is an in-demand junior practising primarily in construction, insurance, professional liability, product liability and property damage. He is ranked as a leading junior in professional...

Mariusz Rumun
Year of Call: 2019

Mariusz is an “outstanding lawyer – extremely bright, immensely hard-working and a real pleasure to work with” (Legal 500, 2025). He practises in insurance, commercial disputes, professional...

Henk Soede
Year of Call: 2019

Henk maintains a broad commercial practice, with a particular focus on Construction & Engineering, Insurance, Product Liability, Professional Liability and Property Damage. He also has experience...

Hamish Fraser
Year of Call: 2021

Hamish is a highly regarded junior with a broad commercial practice and particular specialisms in insurance/re-insurance, professional negligence, product liability, and civil fraud disputes. He is...

Benedict Morillo
Year of Call: 2021

Benedict has a broad commercial practice. He has specialist expertise in insurance, construction, professional liability, product liability, and property damage matters, and he particularly welcomes...

Alethea Redfern
Year of Call: 2021

Alethea Redfern specialises in construction, insurance and reinsurance, professional negligence, property damage and commercial disputes. She has successfully appeared in the High Court both as sole...

Sophie Ashford
Year of Call: 2021

Sophie has a broad practice across the span of Chambers’ core areas with an emphasis on insurance law, commercial litigation, property damage, construction and professional negligence. Prior to...

Bradley John-Davis
Year of Call: 2022

Bradley accepts instructions across all of Chambers’ core areas of practice, with a particular interest in insurance and reinsurance, construction, commercial matters, professional negligence,...

William Lacey
Year of Call: 2022

William Lacey is developing a busy and successful practice in the fields of construction & engineering, insurance & reinsurance, professional liability, property damage, and commercial...

Liana Turner
Year of Call: 2021

Liana joined Chambers as a tenant in October 2024, having successfully completed pupillage. She accepts instructions across Chambers’ core areas of practice, with a particular emphasis on insurance...

Colleen Cumbers
Year of Call: 2023

Colleen Cumbers accepts instructions across Chambers’ core areas of practice, with a particular emphasis on professional negligence, product liability, construction, property damage, insurance &...

Donny Surtani
Year of Call: 2020

Donny Surtani specialises in commercial and financial disputes, with a focus on international arbitration. His areas of practice include financial services, joint ventures and M&A disputes,...