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Edward Hickman
Counsel Litigation, Arbitration, and Employment
Languages
English
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Edward represents clients across a range of industry sectors, including natural resources, insurance, telecoms, banking and manufacturing. His practice comprises some of the most high profile, precedent-setting cases to come before the English courts in the last decade. He has extensive experience of courts around the world, including the British Virgin Islands, the EU, Brazil, the CIS, the USA and many others.
Edward has a particular focus on ensuring his clients’ claims yield tangible results, and he has wide experience of seeking freezing and receivership orders, as well as the tools at a litigant’s disposal to police such orders and asset tracing more generally. He has managed and led successful enforcement proceedings in the UK and jurisdictions around the globe.
Edward has also developed a particular interest in legal privilege issues arising in the context of litigation and a corporation’s interactions with regulators and prosecutors, having advised a client on one of the most important legal privilege cases in the past decade before the Court of Appeal. Edward hosts and runs internal and external training on this issue.
In non-fee earning work, Edward prides himself on his pro bono practice, most recently acting for a string of Afghan asylum seekers following the collapse of the previous government.
Representative experience
Acting for ENRC in the very high profile 47-day High Court trial of its claims against Dechert LLP and the SFO.
Acting for ENRC in a further claim against the SFO for breach confidence.
Acting for BTA Bank in its string of high-profile fraud claims, valued in excess of US$6bn, against its former Chairman. The claims generated many leading authorities relevant to preserving assets.
Acting for a major insurance company seeking an injunction against a high net worth individual in support of arbitration proceedings in a breach of contract claim.
Acting for a major telecommunication conglomerate in shareholder dispute. The case spanned proceedings in the Isle of Man, London and the BVI.
Acting for a major UK-based Private Equity firm in a dispute with the founders of a company in which it had invested.
Acting for a leading Italian manufacturer and its director in a dispute against a former UK distributor in which the client held a minority interest.
Credentials
Education
- L.P.C., BPP University Law School, 2008
- GDL, BPP University Law School, 2007
- M.A. (Oxon), University of Oxford, 2006
Publications
Insights and Analysis
Disclosure from personal accounts and devices: the English Court of Appeal confirms the door is ajar
11 May 2023