Serle Court
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Emma Hargreaves
- Phone020 7242 6105
- Email[email protected]
Position
Emma has a broad commercial chancery practice, with a particular focus on domestic and offshore trust/probate litigation, civil fraud, and company disputes. She also advises and appears as specialist Chancery counsel in financial remedy proceedings. Emma is often instructed to act as sole counsel, often appearing against more senior practitioners. She is also regularly instructed as junior counsel in large-scale commercial and chancery litigation, both onshore and offshore, and has previously appeared (ad hoc) as junior counsel in the Supreme Court of Bermuda.
Emma is ranked in Legal 500, Who's Who Legal, Chambers UK Bar, Chambers Global and Chambers High Net Worth. She was named Chancery Junior of the Year at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2020 and she was also named in The Lawyer's Hot 100 2019, which described her reputation as "superb". She is also listed in Legal Week's Private Client Global Elite: Rising Leaders and was "highly recommended" in Legal Week's Stars at the Bar 2017.
Career
Called 2012; admitted to the Bar of Bermuda (ad hoc, 2015)
Languages
German, French.
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association; COMBAR.
Education
Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, including a year at Regensbury University, Germany (MA Law, First Class); University College London (LLM in International Commercial Law, distinction); Kaplan Law School (BPTC, outstanding, ranked top in year).