Matrix Chambers has recruited four tenants from Hailsham Chambers as the high profile set moves to bolster its European Union (EU) and competition capability ahead of EU accession on 1 May.

The team is led by Takis Tridimas, a professor at Southampton University who has been senior legal adviser to Greece during its EU presidency and has been chair of a group formed by the EU Council of Ministers to draft the Accession Treaty with the ten new member states.