Wilberforce Chambers's Lexa Hilliard KC represented the defendant in BHS Group Limited & Ors v Chappell, Henningson and Chandler, a liquidators’ claim against former directors of BHS for breach of fiduciary duty, negligence and wrongful trading. Terence Mowschenson KC acted for the respondents in O’Keefe and another v Caner and others, in which joint liquidators of Jersey companies brought claims alleging breach of directors’ duties and misfeasance. Thomas Grant KC handled very high-value s.238 proceedings in the Cayman Grand Court concerning the value of the minority shareholdings in Chinese social media company Weibo, while, turning to the set's juniors, Sri Carmichael recently acted as sole counsel defending a £50m fraud claim arising out of the liquidation of the Thomas Cook Group.
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Profile
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.
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