Emma Horner

Practice Areas

Emma’s practice covers a broad range of commercial litigation and arbitration in line with Chambers’ specialisms, including large commercial disputes, civil fraud, company law, insolvency and offshore litigation.

Notable recent cases include: Republic of Mozambique v Credit Suisse & ors (high profile, multi-billion US$ fraud claim); Playle v Verschuur (unfair prejudice dispute); Joannou & Parakevaides (Overseas) (in liq) (claims brought by joint liquidators for wrongful trading, fraudulent trading, breach of fiduciary duties and unlawful means conspiracy) MAD International Manes (claims in deceit and breach of joint venture agreement); Jones v Jones (freezing injunction in the DIFC).

Career

Called to the Bar 2015 (Lincoln’s Inn); Pegasus Scholarship (Bermuda); Rights of audience before the AIFC Court in Kazakhstan (2018)

Professional Memberships

Chancery Bar Association; Commercial Bar Association; Asset Recovery Next Gen; Insolvency Lawyers Association; London Irish Lawyers Association; LCIA Young International Arbitration Group.

Publications

Co-author of “On Your Feet: A Practical Guide to Civil Advocacy” (2019); Contributor to Loose and Griffiths on Liquidators (9 ed., 2019); Co-author of Commercial Law and Financial Regulation [2016] UKSC Yearbook 314 (with Jonathan Crow KC and Lara Hassell-Hart)

Personal

LLM (Commercial Law) (First Class), St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge; LLB (First Class, 5th in year), Trinity College Dublin