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Lexa Hilliard 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 > Company
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Lexa Hilliard KC – Wilberforce Chambers ‘Lexa is a true heavyweight, highly experienced, amazing with clients, a real fighter but with a real hard work ethic.’
Wilberforce Chambers has ‘strength-in-depth in all areas to the highest standard’ for insolvency and company law matters. The set has ‘a wide range of amazing juniors all the way up to the KCs, but particularly a phenomenal stable of mid-level juniors – you can’t go wrong’. Members are sought after for both domestic and cross-border company law work, including financial assistance, shareholder disputes and directors’ duties matters. Lexa Hilliard KC recently acted for the defendant in Titanium Capital Investments Limited, Philip Falzon Sant Manduca & Others v. Jonathan Hughes, Hughes Group Limited & Others, a high-value dispute between former partners of a business selling Covid tests. In Re Zaha Hadid, the vastly experienced Terence Mowschenson KC conducted an inquiry into corporate governance at the architectural practice of the late Dame Zaha Hadid. In 2022, the set recruited Thomas Grant KC from Maitland Chambers, who handled Wells v Hornshaw, Re Transwaste Aggregates for the claimants, which resulted in a fifteen-day High Court trial in respect of an unfair prejudice petition. Outstanding junior Sri Carmichael is frequently instructed on s.994 unfair prejudice petitions and breach of directors’ duty claims.
London Bar > Commercial litigation
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Lexa Hilliard KC –Wilberforce Chambers ‘Lexa never stops thinking, researching and investigating ways to get the best outcome for a client. Her advocacy is a joy to behold – she puts so much personality into her presentation and is extremely persuasive.’
London Bar > Insolvency
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Lexa Hilliard KC – Wilberforce Chambers ‘She is an extremely engaging advocate. She always holds the court’s attention. You wouldn’t want to be against Lexa.’
Wilberforce Chambers specialise in all aspects of corporate and personal insolvency litigation and advice, both domestically and internationally. Lexa Hilliard KC was instructed In the matter of Lehman Brothers Holdings PLC, a high value and multi-party trial arising out of the Lehman Brothers’ collapse concerned with the ranking of different tranches of subordinated debt, totaling several billions. Marcia Shekerdemian KC specialises in all aspects of personal and corporate insolvency, while Daniel Lewis‘ insolvency practice focusses on director and office-holder misfeasance and cross-border work, with expertise in offshore financial services insolvencies.
London Bar > Banking and finance (including consumer credit)
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 5Lexa Hilliard KC – Wilberforce Chambers ‘Lexa is relentless, never stops thinking, researching and investigating ways to get the best outcome for a client. Her advocacy is a joy to behold. She puts so much personality into her presentation and is extremely persuasive.’
London Bar > Professional negligence
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Lexa Hilliard KC – Wilberforce Chambers ‘Lexa leaves no stone unturned and will not be phased by the opponent’s guerilla tactics. She is a very persuasive advocate and will always have solid advice for the client. It is a pleasure to work with Lexa.’