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About
Provided by Emma Hargreaves
Practice Areas
Emma has a commercial chancery practice, with a particular focus on domestic and offshore trust/probate litigation, civil fraud, and company disputes. She also appears as specialist Chancery counsel in financial remedy proceedings and has previously appeared (ad hoc) in the Supreme Court of Bermuda. She was named Chancery Junior of the Year at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2020 and appeared in The Lawyer's Hot 100 2019, which described her reputation as "superb".
Her cases of note include: Re Edwardian Group Limited [2019] 1 BCLC 171, [2019] EWHC 873 (Ch) & [2020] WTLR 127 (unfair prejudice, share valuation); Re G&G Properties Limited [2020] 1 BCLC 1 (unfair prejudice); Re Z Trusts [2019] JCA 106 (“insolvent” trusts); Wong v Grand View PTC & ors [2022] SC (Bda) 44 Com (Bermudian purpose trusts); Wong & anor v Grand View PTC [2023] WTLR 149 (fraud on a power); Re Z [2020] COPLR 367 (Court of Protection, disclosure); HRH Louis Prince of Luxembourg v HRH Tessy Princess of Luxembourg [2018] 2 FLR 480 (financial remedy, privacy orders); Representation of SG Kleinwort Hambros Trust Company (CI) Ltd [2023] JCA 088 (trust restructuring); Re Scherbakov, deceased [2023] EWHC 440 (Ch) (disclosure of non-contemporaneous documents); Morina v McAleavey [2023] BPIR 1420 (s.423 Insolvency Act 1986); and Invest Bank PSC v El-Husseini [2024] EWHC 1235 (Comm) (s.423 Insolvency Act 1986).
Career
Called in 2012.
Professional Memberships
Chancery Bar Association, COMBAR.
Publications
Contributor to Whittaker & Machell, The Law of Limited Liability Partnerships.
Personal
Selwyn College, Cambridge, MA; UCL, LLM.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Emma Hargreaves is a renowned junior whose respected Chancery practice includes cases relating to trusts, wills and estates.
Emma Hargreaves is a junior with a strong reputation for handling complex financial remedy matters with a chancery element, including enforcements. She regularly acts in complex international proceedings, including those involving issues of sham trusts and non-disclosure.
Emma Hargreaves has built a strong reputation for her work for a variety of clients, including trustees and beneficiaries. She has experience of acting in both domestic and offshore matters in this area, and has handled many trust restructurings and breaches of trust claims.
Emma Hargreaves is frequently instructed by top solicitors in complex, high-value offshore trust disputes, as well as multi-jurisdictional trust restructurings. She has acted in high-profile cases across the Channel Islands, Bermuda, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Emma is able to produce top-quality work in an extraordinarily quick timeframe. Her drafting is excellent and she has a very keen eye for detail, whilst never losing sight of the bigger picture."
"Emma is one of our go-to juniors, who is incredibly hard-working and really at the top of her profession. She's excellent for written work and oral advocacy."
"Emma is brilliant with clients, extremely clever and responsive and a hard worker. That's an unbeatable combination."
"Emma is a real star in the making. She is superb, definitely a star of the future."
"Emma is excellent. Her attention to detail is absolutely phenomenal, as is her knowledge of the law. Undaunted by any situation, she is always all over her papers and extremely good on her feet."
"Emma is technically brilliant. Her knowledge is well beyond her years and her advice is always clear. She is approachable and always makes herself available to instructing solicitors."
"Emma is a go-to for any family lawyer who's dealing with complex, high net worth trusts."
"Emma is outstanding and very user-friendly. She is on top of the detail and the technicalities, and has a great manner with clients."
"Emma is a phenomenal asset to have on your side in complex, international family finance matters involving trusts."
"Emma is an exceptionally talented barrister. She works exceptionally hard and drafts beautifully."
"Emma is superb, a definite star in the making."
"Emma is able to produce top-quality work in an extraordinarily quick timeframe. Her drafting is excellent and she has a very keen eye for detail, whilst never losing sight of the bigger picture."
"Emma is one of our go-to juniors, who is incredibly hard-working and really at the top of her profession. She's excellent for written work and oral advocacy."
"Emma is brilliant with clients, extremely clever and responsive and a hard worker. That's an unbeatable combination."
"Emma is a real star in the making. She is superb, definitely a star of the future."
"Emma is excellent. Her attention to detail is absolutely phenomenal, as is her knowledge of the law. Undaunted by any situation, she is always all over her papers and extremely good on her feet."
"Emma is technically brilliant. Her knowledge is well beyond her years and her advice is always clear. She is approachable and always makes herself available to instructing solicitors."
"Emma is a go-to for any family lawyer who's dealing with complex, high net worth trusts."
"Emma is outstanding and very user-friendly. She is on top of the detail and the technicalities, and has a great manner with clients."
"Emma is a phenomenal asset to have on your side in complex, international family finance matters involving trusts."
"Emma is an exceptionally talented barrister. She works exceptionally hard and drafts beautifully."
"Emma is superb, a definite star in the making."
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