3 Verulam Buildings Barristers
3 Verulam Buildings is a leading barristers’ chambers providing specialist advocacy and advisory services worldwide, with particular strengths in commercial and financial litigation, dispute resolution, international arbitration and public international law. Its legal excellence and client service are recognised by leading directories including Legal 500, which notes that members are regularly instructed in some of the largest commercial disputes before London and international courts and tribunals, and Chambers & Partners, which highlights the set’s deep bench of highly ranked practitioners and its market-leading reputation arising from involvement in major commercial cases. Chambers is led by Joint Heads of Chambers David Quest KC and David Head KC and comprises 106 full-time practitioners who practise individually or in teams across contentious and non-contentious matters domestically and internationally. Members appear at all levels of the domestic courts and tribunals, before specialist and disciplinary bodies, in financial centre jurisdictions, and before international courts and tribunals, and they regularly act in arbitrations worldwide under both ad hoc and institutional rules. Chambers has particularly strong credentials in investor-state arbitration and is increasingly recognised as a leading set for public international law matters, with members advising states, corporations and international organisations across the full range of issues arising on the international plane. Chambers operates as a collective of self-employed barristers rather than a partnership and maintains safeguards to protect confidentiality where members act for opposing parties. The clerking team, led by Director of Clerking Stuart Pullum, is widely recognised by the legal directories for its professionalism, responsiveness and commercial approach.
Areas of Expertise
- banking & finance
- civil fraud
- chancery commercial
- commercial dispute resolution
- cyber fraud/cryptocurrency and digital assets
- energy (including natural resources and infrastructure)
- financial crime
- financial services
- group litigation
- information technology
- insolvency & restructuring
- insurance & reinsurance
- international arbitration
- offshore
- media & entertainment (including art & cultural property)
- professional negligence
- public international law