Emma Hargreaves

Ranked in 4 Practice Areas

Band 1

Chancery: Traditional

London (Bar)

8 Years Ranked

Band 1

Family/Matrimonial: Trusts/Tax Experts

London (Bar)

7 Years Ranked

Band 1

Trusts

London (Bar)

5 Years Ranked

Band 2

Offshore

All Circuits

1 Years Ranked

Ranked in Guides

Global 2025

High Net Worth 2024

About

Provided by Emma Hargreaves

UK Bar

Practice Areas

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); Re Z Trusts [2019] JCA 106 (“insolvent” trusts); 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) (s.423 Insolvency Act 1986).

Career

Called in 2012.

Professional Memberships

Chancery Bar Association, COMBAR.

Publications

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

Personal

Selwyn College, Cambridge, MA; UCL, LLM.

Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

UK-Bar

Chancery: Traditional - London (Bar)

Band 1

Individual Editorial

Emma Hargreaves is a renowned junior whose respected chancery practice includes cases relating to trusts, wills and estates.

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Family/Matrimonial: Trusts/Tax Experts - London (Bar)

Band 1

Individual Editorial

Emma Hargreaves is a junior with a strong reputation for handling complex financial remedy matters with a chancery element, including enforcements. She regularly acts in complex international proceedings, including those involving issues of sham trusts and non-disclosure.

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Trusts - London (Bar)

Band 1

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.

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Offshore - All Circuits

Band 2

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.

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Strengths

Provided by Chambers

Emma is brilliant with clients, extremely clever and responsive and a hard worker. That's an unbeatable combination.

Chancery: Traditional respondent
UK-Bar

Emma is one of our go-to juniors, who is incredibly hard-working and really at the top of her profession. She's excellent for written work and oral advocacy.

Chancery: Traditional respondent
UK-Bar

Emma is able to produce top-quality work in an extraordinarily quick timeframe. Her drafting is excellent and she has a very keen eye for detail, whilst never losing sight of the bigger picture.

Chancery: Traditional respondent
UK-Bar

Emma is a phenomenal asset to have on your side in complex, international family finance matters involving trusts.

Family/Matrimonial: Trusts/Tax Experts respondent
UK-Bar

Emma is a go-to for any family lawyer who's dealing with complex, high net worth trusts.

Family/Matrimonial: Trusts/Tax Experts respondent
UK-Bar

Emma is excellent. Her attention to detail is absolutely phenomenal, as is her knowledge of the law. Undaunted by any situation, she is always all over her papers and extremely good on her feet.

Family/Matrimonial: Trusts/Tax Experts respondent
UK-Bar

Emma is outstanding and very user-friendly. She is on top of the detail and the technicalities, and has a great manner with clients.

Family/Matrimonial: Trusts/Tax Experts respondent
UK-Bar

Emma is technically brilliant. Her knowledge is well beyond her years and her advice is always clear. She is approachable and always makes herself available to instructing solicitors.

Family/Matrimonial: Trusts/Tax Experts respondent
UK-Bar

Emma is an exceptionally talented barrister. She works exceptionally hard and drafts beautifully.

Trusts respondent
UK-Bar

Emma is superb, a definite star in the making.

Offshore respondent
UK-Bar

Emma is brilliant with clients, extremely clever and responsive and a hard worker. That's an unbeatable combination.

Chancery: Traditional respondent
UK-Bar

Emma is one of our go-to juniors, who is incredibly hard-working and really at the top of her profession. She's excellent for written work and oral advocacy.

Chancery: Traditional respondent
UK-Bar

Emma is able to produce top-quality work in an extraordinarily quick timeframe. Her drafting is excellent and she has a very keen eye for detail, whilst never losing sight of the bigger picture.

Chancery: Traditional respondent
UK-Bar

Emma is a phenomenal asset to have on your side in complex, international family finance matters involving trusts.

Family/Matrimonial: Trusts/Tax Experts respondent
UK-Bar

Emma is a go-to for any family lawyer who's dealing with complex, high net worth trusts.

Family/Matrimonial: Trusts/Tax Experts respondent
UK-Bar

Emma is excellent. Her attention to detail is absolutely phenomenal, as is her knowledge of the law. Undaunted by any situation, she is always all over her papers and extremely good on her feet.

Family/Matrimonial: Trusts/Tax Experts respondent
UK-Bar

Emma is outstanding and very user-friendly. She is on top of the detail and the technicalities, and has a great manner with clients.

Family/Matrimonial: Trusts/Tax Experts respondent
UK-Bar

Emma is technically brilliant. Her knowledge is well beyond her years and her advice is always clear. She is approachable and always makes herself available to instructing solicitors.

Family/Matrimonial: Trusts/Tax Experts respondent
UK-Bar

Emma is an exceptionally talented barrister. She works exceptionally hard and drafts beautifully.

Trusts respondent
UK-Bar

Emma is superb, a definite star in the making.

Offshore respondent
UK-Bar

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About

Practice Areas

Career

Professional Memberships

Publications

Personal

Chambers Review

UK-Bar

Chancery: Traditional - London (Bar)

Individual Editorial

Family/Matrimonial: Trusts/Tax Experts - London (Bar)

Individual Editorial

Trusts - London (Bar)

Individual Editorial

Offshore - All Circuits

Individual Editorial

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