Gatehouse Chambers

Emily Husain specialises in commercial litigation and construction disputes and has considerable experience of both domestic and international litigation. She has particular expertise in multi-jurisdictional cases involving fraud, insolvency, banking and financial services. She also has significant experience in the construction sector in both adjudications and High Court matters and handles professional negligence claims in both the financial and construction contexts.

Emily was instructed in 2020 as junior counsel in the five-week trial of a substantial and highly technical commercial dispute in the renewables sector with an approximate value of c.£50m (Toucan Energy Holdings Limited v Wirsol Energy Limited & Ors [2021] EWHC 895 (Comm)).

Emily was also instructed in 2021 as junior counsel in Pipia v BGEO Group Limited, involving claims for $300m in Commercial Court proceedings brought by a Georgian businessman against the English branch of a Georgian financial institution. Led by Nigel Jones KC.

Emily is regularly instructed as sole counsel across her areas of specialism for advisory work and frequently appears in both the High Court and County Courts including the TCC. Emily’s recent instructions include:

• Advising in relation to a property transaction involving restrictive covenants with a value of c. £25m
• Acting unled in the two-day trial of a consumer construction dispute
• Applications relating to personal and corporate insolvency in the Insolvency Court
• Advising on a fraud claim against the former financial controller of a limited company
• Advising a local authority in a commercial claim with a value of £1.5m
• Applications for interim relief, including those engaging cross-jurisdictional principles
• Construction dispute adjudications and enforcement proceedings in the TCC
• Advising a CIC in the energy sector seeking injunctive relief

Emily’s international experience extends to Georgia, the Channel Islands, BVI, Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, Bermuda and St Vincent and the Grenadines.

Before joining Gatehouse Chambers Emily undertook pupillage at a leading set of commercial chambers in London, following which she was employed at a major London firm of solicitors handling a wide variety of commercial litigation and arbitration. She previously worked in publishing and her commercial experience has also been enhanced by her years in the editorial team at Simon & Schuster UK.

Call: 2014

COMBAR YFLA Society of Construction Law TECBAR

Bar Professional Training Course (Very Competent), BPP University Graduate Diploma in Law (Commendation), City Law School MPhil (Classics), St John’s College, Cambridge BA Hons (First) in Classics, St John’s College, Cambridge