Enterprise Chambers

Enterprise Chambers is a leading set of barristers specialising in commercial, business, and property-related disputes. With established premises in London, Bristol, Leeds, and Newcastle upon Tyne, the set offers a nationwide presence and serves clients throughout England and Wales. Its barristers are known for delivering prompt, high-quality, and commercially focused advice and representation.

Members of Enterprise Chambers appear in all courts and tribunals, including regulatory and property tribunals, as well as in mediations and arbitrations. The set acts for a broad range of clients, including private individuals, SMEs, large corporations, and public authorities. Members may be instructed individually or as part of a team for handling complex and large-scale litigation.

Core areas of expertise include:

• Insolvency: Covers domestic and cross-border matters, including liquidations, receiverships, administrations, voluntary arrangements, bankruptcies, and schemes of arrangement. Members regularly act for or against insolvency practitioners, particularly in matters involving the adjustment of prior transactions.

• Commercial: Includes contract disputes, restraint of trade, loan agreements, guarantees, sale of goods, insurance, competition law, civil fraud, and tax-related issues.

• Company and Partnership: Involves directors’ liabilities, disqualification proceedings, shareholder and partner disputes, unfair prejudice claims, derivative actions, and quasi-partnership disputes.

• Banking and Finance: Encompasses mortgages, charges, guarantees, receivership, negligent investment advice, financial mis-selling, payment fraud, asset finance, and project finance.

• Property/Landlord and Tenant: Covers residential, business, and agricultural tenancies, conveyancing, mortgages, easements, covenants, adverse possession, environmental law, sale of land, and land registration.

• Professional Negligence: Involving claims against accountants, architects, barristers, insolvency practitioners, engineers, solicitors, and surveyors.

The set is noted for its strength in insolvency and property matters, particularly where these areas intersect. Many members are recognised as leaders in their fields by major legal directories and are known for their approachability, legal expertise, and commercial awareness.

Languages
Arabic
Portuguese
French
Spanish

Staffing, Team Members, Memberships

• Chambers of James Pickering KC

• Members recognised in major legal directories

Office Locations

• London – 9 Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, WC2A 3SR | 020 7405 9471 | london@enterprisechambers.com

• Bristol – 4-5 College Green, BS1 5TF | 0117 450 7920 | bristol@enterprisechambers.com

• Leeds – 43 Park Square, LS1 2NP | 0113 246 0391 | leeds@enterprisechambers.com

• Newcastle upon Tyne – 65 Quayside, NE1 3DE | 0191 222 3344 | newcastle@enterprisechambers.com