Arbitration, Banking, Financial Services, Civil Fraud, Commercial Litigation, Insurance and Reinsurance, Telecommunications and Company.
Zoe O’Sullivan KC is a robust and experienced advocate who thrives on the challenges of oral advocacy and cross-examination. She is recommended by Chambers UK Bar for Commercial Dispute Resolution, Banking & Finance and Information Technology. Zoe is also recommended in Dispute Resolution (The English Bar - United Arab Emirates) by Chambers Global.
Zoe is described in Chambers UK as “very easy to work with and very hands-on”, “very technically able” and “formidably bright”. The Legal 500 says: “Zoe is - even by the standards of the commercial bar - highly intelligent and extremely diligent: she is seriously very hard-working. As a result she displays complete mastery of the documents and of the law. She is an extremely tough, but always fair and decent, opponent. A star silk for the future.”
Zoe’s commercial/Chancery practice spans a broad range including IT and outsourcing disputes, shareholder disputes/joint ventures, directors’ duties, banking and finance, civil fraud, oil and gas, and shipbuilding. She is highly experienced in jurisdiction issues and in key interim applications including freezing orders, anti-suit injunctions, and applications under section 44 of the Arbitration Act 1996.
Zoe is also ranked by the Legal 500 as a leading silk in international commercial arbitration. She is regularly appointed as presiding, sole and co-arbitrator in claims proceeding under the LCIA, DIFC-LCIA, ICC and UNICTRAL rules. She is on the List of Arbitrators of the HK IAC.
Zoe is registered in the DIFC and admitted to the Bar of the BVI.
Year of Call: 1993; Year of Silk: 2015.
Zoe has a working knowledge of French and Spanish.
Member of the Society for Computers and Law Adjudication Scheme Panel.
Educated at Oxford University (1991 Congratulatory First in English, 3 University prizes), City University (1992 Distinction, Arbitrators’ Prize) and Inns of Court School of Law (1993 Very Competent).
Interests: Classical Music, Argentine Tango, Medieval History, Ski-Ing. Fellow of Westminister Abbey Institute.