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Lexa Hilliard KC

Lexa Hilliard KC

Position

Lexa Hilliard KC is a popular and well-respected silk who is recommended by the legal directories as a leading silk for commercial dispute resolution, commercial chancery, company, insolvency and professional negligence. Her expertise also covers arbitration, banking and finance as well as fraud. She regularly advises in connection with off-shore disputes in the Channel Islands, the Caribbean and the Isle of Man.

Her insolvency practice covers all aspects of corporate restructuring and insolvency. She advises creditors, directors, companies and office holders on a wide variety of corporate insolvency matters including, liquidation, administration, schemes of arrangement, CVAs and other less formal work-outs.

Her contentious insolvency work covers asset tracing, the setting aside of prior transactions, wrongful and fraudulent trading and directors’ disqualification. Her work often has an international dimension which, as the legal directories point out, means that she is “particularly adept at advising on cross-border insolvency issues”.

Career

Call: 1987, KC: 2009.

Mentions

London Bar

Banking and finance (including consumer credit)

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Lexa Hilliard KC – Wilberforce Chambers ‘Lexa is utterly, utterly committed, really lives and dies with her client’s case. She has a fierce sense of right and wrong and justice.’  
London Bar

Commercial litigation

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Lexa Hilliard KC –Wilberforce Chambers ‘Lexa has the rare ability to distil complicated concepts into such beautifully logical and simple arguments that you cannot help but agree with her. Commercial and forthright with clients and opponents - she is a joy to have on any litigation team.'
London Bar

Company

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Lexa Hilliard KC – Wilberforce Chambers ‘Utterly committed, Lexa is fearless and her advocacy is fabulous.’
London Bar

Insolvency

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Lexa Hilliard KC – Wilberforce Chambers ‘Lexa really is one of the team. She is approachable and happy to get stuck in. Her advice is invaluable both from a legal perspective, but she is also extremely commercial. Lexa is just as comfortable in court – she delivers submissions with such ease and creates a rapport with judges.’