Emma Hargreaves

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); 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) & [2024] EWHC 2976 (Comm) (s.423 Insolvency Act 1986).

Call: 2012

Chancery Bar Association, COMBAR.

Contributor to Whittaker & Machell, The Law of Limited Liability Partnerships.