Dispute Resolution

Partner

Hannah Tildesley is a partner in the Dispute Resolution team in the Bermuda office of Appleby.

Hannah specialises in international commercial litigation, with a particular focus on banking and funds litigation, director and shareholder disputes and contentious trust disputes. Many of the matters in which she is instructed are multi-jurisdictional and frequently involve complex cross-border issues and conflict of laws. She often works alongside leading on-shore law firms and barristers. Hannah also advises on the litigation aspects of corporate deals, including governance issues, director duties and enforcement and insolvency considerations.

Hannah is an experienced advocate. She has acted in various applications before the Supreme Court of Bermuda. Before moving to Bermuda, Hannah appeared in a variety of trials and applications before the English High Court and County Courts. She also appeared as sole counsel for the Respondent before the English Court of Appeal in Dammermann v Lanyon Bowdler LLP [2017] EWCA Civ 269.

She undertook pupillage at, and later practised as a tenant from, St Philips Chambers in commercial and regulatory law, before joining Appleby in 2017.

Before qualifying, Hannah studied History at Cambridge University, where she was awarded the Creighton Prize for Excellence in History and the Dorothy Forster Prize for Outstanding Long Essay for her performance in examinations at her college. Hannah studied the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Bar Professional Training Course at City University, London.

Hannah was called to the English Bar in 2012 by Middle Temple, which awarded her a Queen Mother’s Scholarship, a Benefactor’s Scholarship and a Blackstone’s Exhibition.

University of Cambridge City University, London