New Joint Heads of Chambers
22 Nov 11
We are delighted to announce that Monica Carss-Frisk QC and Tony Peto QC have been elected to succeed Ian Mill QC and Thomas Beazley QC as joint heads of Chambers in January 2012.
Monica Carss-Frisk QC is a leading silk, recognised for her expertise across a range of areas including public law, EU and competition law, telecoms and human rights with a strong emphasis on regulatory work (advising and acting both for and against regulators). Monica recently successfully acted for the FSA in the high profile judicial review concerning Payment Protection Insurance.
Tony Peto QC is a leading commercial silk, who is particularly renowned for his expertise in the civil fraud arena. Recent work includes acting for SOCA in a civil recovery claim worth over £100m in relation to an alleged international pension and insurance fraud; acting in BTA Bank v Ablyazov for one of the individual defendants in fraud claims brought by a Kazakh bank estimated to be worth a combined $320m; and for a Russian conglomerate in a complex, multi-jurisdictional corporate dispute involving allegations of fraud, in a claim valued at several billions of dollars.
Blackstone Chambers has 86 tenants, including 33 Queen’s Counsel.