Zahira Hussain > Edwin Coe LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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Zahira Hussain

Work Department
Litigation
Position
Zahira has experience of advising Claimants as well as Defendants. She primarily deals with contractual disputes but also has experience of advising clients in professional negligence and judicial review cases.
Career
Zahira joined Edwin Coe as a Trainee in September 2006. She qualified into the Commercial Litigation department in September 2008 and as Partner in 2020.
Languages
Urdu; Punjabi; conversational French
Memberships
Acts as a “champion” for the Junior London Solicitors Litigation Association (JLSLA) acting as a coordinator between junior litigators at Edwin Coe and the JLSLA
Acted as a mentor for a charity called Mosaic which is part of the Prince’s Trust.
Sat on the Board of Mosaic’s London Regional Leadership Group
Education
Oxford University, Law, 2:1.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
(Next Generation Partners)‘A well-oiled machine undertaking an impressive range of high-quality instructions’, Edwin Coe LLP has an enviable market reputation for civil claimant litigation against major City firms. Heading up the firm’s litigation and insolvency practice, Ali Zaidi is experienced in fraud-related cases, as well as insolvency matters. Senior partner David Greene is ‘somewhat of a doyen of High Court group litigation‘. The practice further includes Zahira Hussain, who regularly handles contractual disputes, along with professional negligence, civil fraud and judicial reviews, and commercial litigation and ADR specialist Thomas Johnson, who is ‘on top of all the detail’.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners London > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Commercial litigation: mid-market London > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Dispute resolution > Group litigation: Claimant
- Insurance > Insurance litigation: for policyholders
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Real estate > Residential property
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Immigration: personal
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Employment > Senior executives
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property finance
- Employment > Employers
- Employment > Immigration