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The Global Arbitration Review

23rd October 2014

Cherie Blair makes arbitration a focus

Cherie Blair QC is to leave Matrix Chambers, the London barristers’ set she co-founded 14 years ago, to focus on international legal and advisory work and to sit as an international arbitrator.

Blair – the wife of former UK prime minister Tony Blair – will conduct her work through Omnia Strategy, “a pioneering multi disciplinary law firm” that she founded in 2011, with offices in London and Washington, DC.
According to a firm press release, Omnia “provides strategic counsel to governments, multinational companies and private clients on a wide variety of matters including private and public international law, international dispute resolution, and strategic communications.” It offers “tailored project teams, including lawyers and experts in business, diplomacy, and communications.” Read more