Ms Emma Horner > Chambers of George Bompas KC > London, England > Barrister Profile

Chambers of George Bompas KC
4 Stone Buildings
LINCOLN'S INN
LONDON
WC2A 3XT
England

Work Department

Barrister practicing in a broad range of commercial litigation and arbitration in line with Chambers’ specialisms, including civil fraud, company law and insolvency.

Position

Emma’s specialises in commercial chancery litigation and arbitration with particular interests in civil fraud, company law and insolvency. She acts as sole counsel or as part of a team of counsel and regularly appears unled in the High Court and County Court. She has experience of high-value disputes involving complex, multi-jurisdictional issues. She has experience acting in off-shore matters and undertook a Pegasus scholarship at an international law firm in Bermuda.

Career

Called 2015; Lincoln’s Inn. Rights of audience before the AIFC Court in Kazakhstan (2018)

Co-author of On Your Feet: A Practical Guide to Civil Advocacy (2019) and contributor to Loose and Griffiths on Liquidators (9th ed., 2019).

Memberships

Member of Chancery Bar Association, COMBAR, Asset Recovery Next Gen, London Irish Lawyers Association and Young International Arbitration Group.

Education

Methodist College Belfast; Trinity College Dublin (LLB 2012); study abroad Washington & Lee University, Virginia; St Catharine’s College, Cambridge (LLM 2014); University of Law, Bloomsbury (2015 BPTC); Sir Thomas More Bursary, Levitt Scholarship and Buchanan Prize from Lincoln’s Inn

Leisure

Hiking, skiing

Lawyer Rankings

London Bar > Company

(Rising stars)Ranked: Tier 1

Emma Horner4 Stone Buildings ‘Emma is extremely charming, incredibly sharp, very thorough and all over the detail, and she has a strong commercial sense.’

London Bar > Commercial litigation

(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 5

Emma Horner  – 4 Stone BuildingsGreat manner with clients and a steel edge during negotiations.