Posted on: 1 December 2022
Quadrant Chambers welcomes international arbitration specialist Claire Stockford, who joins as a new member of chambers.
“I am very pleased to welcome Claire back to the Bar and to her new home at Quadrant Chambers. Claire’s experience and reputation are a fantastic addition to the international arbitration team here at Quadrant. Her arrival following Alexander Uff and Gaurav Sharma, is part of our commitment to enhancing the breadth and depth of our international arbitration practice,” Poonam Melwani KC, Head of Quadrant Chambers.
Claire joins from the renowned international arbitration team at Eversheds Sutherland. She has considerable top-level experience at international firms such as Weil Gotshal and Manges and Crowell and Moring’. She represents and advises clients across a wide variety of commercial and investor-state disputes. Her experience encompasses arbitrations under International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), United National Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) rules. Claire has represented clients in industries ranging from renewable energy to hospitality. Claire is recognised as a “Future Leader” in arbitration by Who’s Who Legal. She is recognised by the Legal 500 for International Arbitration and Public International Law.
“After more than 20 years spent practising as associate, counsel and, latterly, partner in the international disputes teams of some wonderful law firms, I am delighted to be returning to my roots at the independent Bar. I am hugely impressed by the strength of Quadrant Chambers across the breadth of its areas of practice and in particular by the excellence of its growing international arbitration practice,” said Claire Stockford.
