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Richard Hill KC

020 7242 5524 clerks@4stonebuildings.com

Work Department

Litigation specialist focusing on commercial, capital markets and banking, insolvency, civil fraud and company litigation. 

Position

Litigation specialist focusing on commercial, capital markets and banking, civil fraud, insolvency and company litigation. In addition to his High Court practice he appears in international arbitrations and Courts in offshore jurisdictions. His work regularly features cross-border issues and involves large teams, often including team members from the US and other jurisdictions. Leading recent cases: Autonomy Corporation v Lynch; of Travelport v WEX; Olding v WEX, Sharp v Blank (Lloyds shareholder action);  Khorafi v Bank Sarasin-Alpen (ME) Ltd (DIFC Court);  Pinchuk v Bogolyubov;  Constantin Meridien v Ecclestone; McKillen v Barclay & Ors; re Lehman Brothers International Europe (client money litigation); Re Titan Europe 2007-1 (NHP); Sinclair v Versailles Trade Finance Ltd.

Career

1993 Call. Silk in 2012. Educated at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge (BA Hons – 1st class); Prince of Wales Scholar of Gray’s Inn.

Memberships

Also called to the Bar in the BVI and the DIFC; Member of Attorney General’s ‘A’ Panel Counsel for Government work (2007-12); COMBAR; CBA

Education

Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge (1st class Hons).

Leisure

Fell running, sailing.