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Hefin Rees KC
Position
Hefin Rees QC has extensive experience of international disputes in the commercial, civil fraud, construction, banking and financial services sectors. Both Legal 500 UK and Legal 500 Asia Pacific recommend him as a Leading Silk in commercial litigation and in international arbitration, and he is ranked as a Leading Silk UK Bar in offshore litigation.
Since taking Silk in 2013, he has developed a very impressive arbitration and litigation practice and has been called to the Bars of six different jurisdictions. Legal 500 describe him as: “Charming, entertaining, commercially astute and frank…” and say: “He throws himself in a case team with tremendous enthusiasm.”
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has been appointed to sit as Arbitrator by the ICC, LCIA, LMAA, as well as in ad hoc arbitrations in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Fraud: civil
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Hefin Rees KC –3 Verulam Buildings ‘He has excellent research skills and is very thorough. He is an equally careful advocate.’
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Hefin Rees KC –3 Verulam Buildings ‘Hefin is a clear thinker who has excellent drafting skills and is easy to work with.’
The English Bar Offshore > The English Bar Offshore
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Hefin Rees KC –3 Verulam Buildings ‘Hefin is affable and detail-oriented.’
Known in the offshore world as a ‘strong commercial set with a number of excellent counsel’, 3 Verulam Buildings experienced another strong year with members receiving instructions across a breadth of complex cases, ranging from banking and finance disputes to high-profile judicial reviews. Hodge Malek KC , Hefin Rees KC and Philip Hinks are representing MBFX and a MultiBank Group’s founder in a large international fraud case where it is alleged that the trading platform fraudulently misappropriated €35m of noteholder funds. Ewan McQuater KC is involved in litigation in the BVI worth $1.5bn, where he is acting for provisional liquidators appointed by the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands seeking to preserve and prevent dissipation of the assets of the business group headed by Global Cord Blood Corporation.
Asia Pacific - The English Bar > Commercial
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Hefin Rees KC – 3 Verulam Buildings ‘An industrious and tenacious silk.’