Louise Hutton KC

Practice Areas

Louise’s practice covers commercial and commercial/chancery litigation and arbitration, including banking and finance litigation, fraud, insolvency/restructuring and company law.

Louise’s recent work has included:

Stanford International Bank Limited (in liquidation) v HSBC Bank plc, defending claims for breach of the Quincecare duty and in dishonest assistance arising from the Ponzi scheme of Allen Stanford. HSBC successfully applied to strike out the vast majority of the claims: Supreme Court decision at [2022] UKSC 34.

Ivanishvili v Credit Suisse Life (Bermuda) Limited: acting for the Plaintiffs in the dispute between Bidzina Ivanishvili (the former Prime Minister of Georgia) and other plaintiffs and Credit Suisse Life (Bermuda) Limited (“CS Life”), arising out of a long-running fraud committed by an employee of Credit Suisse. The Plaintiffs’ claims succeeded following trial in Bermuda and judgment was given in the sum of over USD600m. Credit Suisse’s appeal was heard over 5 days in December 2022 and judgment is awaited.

Avonwick Holdings Ltd v Azitio Holdings Ltd: an 8 week Commercial Court trial involving allegations of misrepresentation, deceit and conspiracy.

Louise acted for LBHI2 throughout the Lehman “Waterfall I” litigation, which included the issue of currency conversion claims (on which LBHI2 succeeded in the Supreme Court [2017] UKSC 38) as well as issues of the construction of subordinated debt agreements, statutory interest entitlement, the extent of the s.74 liability of members, and the application of insolvency set-off.

Louise has been called to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI).