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Private Wealth: Trusts - UK
Individual Editorial
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.
Strengths
Emma is all over the detail in complicated cases and can distil the tricky issues. She is very responsive and client-focused.
Emma is a silk in junior's clothing, who is great as part of a team. She is brilliant to work with, she gets on top of clients' objectives and she thinks laterally to achieve their aims.
Emma Hargreaves is thorough, extremely knowledgeable and highly personable.
Emma is very bright and fast-working. She gets on top of huge amounts of information very quickly.
Emma is an incredibly fierce advocate, who is phenomenal at commercial strategy.
Offshore (Bar) - UK
Individual Editorial
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
Emma Hargreaves has very good on judgement and is a very bright, hardworking junior.
Emma is a tremendous junior and a pleasure to work with.
Dispute Resolution: Commercial Chancery - UK
Strengths
Emma is extremely hardworking, very responsive and always available. She's able to produce a massive amount of work in a short period of time, and nothing fazes her.
Emma is very very bright and fast working. She gets on top of huge amounts of information very quickly.
Emma is an incredibly fierce advocate, who's calm and measured even under stressful conditions. She's can adapt herself well when she runs into stormy weather on a case.
Dispute Resolution: Commercial - UK
Strengths
Emma Hargreaves is an incredibly careful barrister who is terrifyingly good.
Emma Hargreaves is amazing and great to work with. She is a very clear oral advocate who has excellent drafting skills.
Emma Hargreaves drove the drafting of the defence under tight time pressures. She was good at managing dense amounts of data and being flexible as needed.