William Hooper

Practice Areas

Will is recognised as a leading junior in commercial dispute resolution. He has a broad commercial litigation and arbitration practice and acts both led and unled in a wide range of commercial matters, including banking and finance, sale of goods, private equity, shipping and international trade, energy, civil and commercial fraud, media and advertising, telecoms, and competition.

Will regularly appears in the High Court (Commercial Court and Chancery Division) and in arbitration, as well as off-shore. He was nominated for Commercial Litigation Junior of the Year at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2022, recognised as one of The Lawyer’s Hot 100 legal professionals for 2022 (one of only 19 barristers to feature) and named The Lawyer’s Barrister of the Week in June 2021.

Career

Called 2014.

Professional Memberships

COMBAR

Publications

Hooper, “Breach, Benefit, and the Lost Cause” (2016) LQR 132, 547-552

Whitehead and Hooper, “Failure of businessman to recognise his company’s distinct legal personality” (2017) JIBFL May 317

Personal

BA (Hons), Oxford; GDL, City; BPTC, BPP.

Queen Mother Scholar, Middle Temple.