Lara Hassell-Hart

Practice Areas

Lara has a busy commercial chancery practice, specialising in the full range of Chambers’ work, including commercial litigation, company law, insolvency, banking and financial services, regulatory work and civil fraud. She has substantial experience of large trials and has been involved in some of the biggest cases in the High Court in recent years, including Hewlett Packard’s $5 billion fraud claim against Dr Mike Lynch, and the group litigation by Lloyds shareholders over Lloyds’ acquisition of HBOS during the 2008 financial crisis. She also has particular experience and knowledge of energy-related matters, having been heavily involved in various pieces of litigation arising out of the energy crisis, and was one of 19 barristers named in The Lawyer’s ‘Hot 100’ in 2022 as a result of this work. She was appointed to the Attorney General’s ‘C’ panel of counsel in 2022. Lara’s focus is on providing practical advice tailored to suit the client’s individual needs and objectives.

Professional Memberships

COMBAR

Chancery Bar Association

Insolvency Lawyers Association

Publications

Contributor to Loose & Griffiths on Liquidators (9th ed.) (2019)

‘Commercial Law and Financial Regulation’, United Kingdom Supreme Court Yearbook vol. 7 (2016) (co-authored with Jonathan Crow KC and Emma Horner)

Personal

Girton College, Cambridge (MA Cantab)

City University London (GDL, BPTC)

Astbury Scholar of Middle Temple