MichaelTselentis, KC
Resident, Twenty Essex
30 years’ experience in commercial arbitration and litigation in South Africa (1978-2000) and the United
Kingdom (1996 to date), specializing in complex contractual disputes, shipping,
commodities/international trade, mining and energy, engineering and construction, banking and
professional negligence. Regularly accepts appointments as arbitrator in international commercial
disputes.
For further career details, and list of principal cases/arbitration appointments please refer to the 20 Essex
Street Chambers website, http://www.20essexst.com/member/michael-tselentis under Members/Queen’s Counsel.
Shipping, commodities/international trade and arbitration has been an integral part of his practice
throughout. Back
CONTACT
Phone: +44 207 842 1208
E-mail: mtselentis@twentyessex.com
Country of Residence: United Kingdom
Nationality: South African and Greek
MAIN PRACTICE AREAS
COMMODITIES COAL
COMMODITIES GRAIN
OIL & GAS
SHIP BUILD & REPAIR
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTSFellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK); the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators; the
Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration; the Association of Arbitrators (Southern
Africa) and the Botswana Institute of Arbitrators
Member, ICC (UK), LCIA, ARIAS (UK)
Supporting Member, LMAA
Member of a number of arbitration panels which include the Singapore International Arbitration Centre,
the Arbitration Foundation of South Africa and the Dubai International Arbitration Centre
ADMISSIONS
ENGLAND AND WALES
OTHERS
EDUCATION
B.A. LLB (Cape Town), 1971
BCL (Oxford), 1975
Called to the South African Bar, 1978
Senior Counsel (South Africa), 1989
Acting Judge, South African High Court, 1992
Called to the English Bar (Gray's Inn), 1995
Queen's Counsel, 2003
Chartered Arbitrator (UK), 2008
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