Four solicitor-advocates from firms including Allen & Overy and White & Case are among 108 new QCs appointed in this year’s silk round.

The private practice quartet to have made the grade include Mark Levy, global co-chair of A&O’s international arbitration group, and two partners from White & Case – London arbitration co-head Aloke Ray and Dipen Sabharwal, who heads the US firm’s EMEA disputes section for international arbitration.