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Atkin Chambers: Queen’s Award

21 April 2020
Issue: 7883 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Atkin Chambers has won a prestigious award for international business success, for a second time
The commercial set received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade. It previously won the award in 2005, and was the first barristers’ chambers to do so.

Head of chambers, Chantal-Aimée Doerries QC said: ‘The barristers at Atkin Chambers have been at the forefront of major international infrastructure and energy disputes for many decades. Clients come to Atkin Chambers from across the globe for the expertise the barristers offer as advocates and as advisers in commercially significant and technically complex projects.’

Issue: 7883 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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