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Lexa Hilliard KC KC
Position
Lexa Hilliard KC is a popular and well-respected silk who is recommended by the legal directories as a leading silk for commercial dispute resolution, commercial chancery, company, insolvency and professional negligence. Her expertise also covers arbitration, banking and finance as well as fraud. She regularly advises in connection with off-shore disputes in the Channel Islands, the Caribbean and the Isle of Man.
Her insolvency practice covers all aspects of corporate restructuring and insolvency. She advises creditors, directors, companies and office holders on a wide variety of corporate insolvency matters including, liquidation, administration, schemes of arrangement, CVAs and other less formal work-outs.
Her contentious insolvency work covers asset tracing, the setting aside of prior transactions, wrongful and fraudulent trading and directors’ disqualification. Her work often has an international dimension which, as the legal directories point out, means that she is “particularly adept at advising on cross-border insolvency issues”.
Career
Call: 1987, KC: 2009.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4London Bar > Banking and finance (including consumer credit)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Lexa Hilliard KC – Wilberforce Chambers ‘Lexa is utterly, utterly committed, really lives and dies with her client’s case. She has a fierce sense of right and wrong and justice.’
London Bar > Insolvency
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Lexa Hilliard KC – Wilberforce Chambers ‘Lexa really is one of the team. She is approachable and happy to get stuck in. Her advice is invaluable both from a legal perspective, but she is also extremely commercial. Lexa is just as comfortable in court – she delivers submissions with such ease and creates a rapport with judges.’
The insolvency group at Wilberforce Chambers specialises in a wide range of corporate and personal insolvency litigation cases, both domestically and internationally. Barristers at the set are often involved in high-profile insolvency matters, as well as work connected to restructurings, in particular where issues cross-over with other practice areas including property and pensions. Lexa Hilliard KC, alongside Tom Roscoe, were involved In the matter of Lehman Brothers Holdings PLC where they successfully advised the client, LBGP No 1, on a second issue concerning interest in the wake of the Lehman Brothers’ collapse. Marcia Shekerdemian KC specialises in personal and corporate insolvency, including restructuring, while Daniel Petrides is a name to watch.
London Bar > Company
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Lexa Hilliard KC – Wilberforce Chambers ‘Utterly committed, Lexa is fearless and her advocacy is fabulous.’
Wilberforce Chambers ‘offers strength and depth across the board in all company and Chancery matters, with approachable and ferociously bright barristers‘. The set has a solid track record in advising on cross-border company law matters, and continues to advising on cases involving directors’ duties issues, financial assistance and shareholder disputes. Lexa Hilliard KC is sought after for her strong track record in advising on high-profile shareholder disputes. Thomas Grant KC is appearing in proceedings in the Cayman Islands concerning the value of minority shareholdings in Chinese social media company Weibo.
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Lexa Hilliard KC –Wilberforce Chambers ‘Lexa has the rare ability to distil complicated concepts into such beautifully logical and simple arguments that you cannot help but agree with her. Commercial and forthright with clients and opponents – she is a joy to have on any litigation team.’