Hilary Heilbron QC
Brick Court Chambers
Brief Introduction
Hilary Heilbron QC has extensive experience as counsel both in international arbitration and commercial litigation acting for a broad range of national and international clients and she also regularly sits as an international arbitrator.
Hilary’s experience as an international arbitrator is very wide. She has accepted over 90 appointments relating to very substantial disputes as party nominated arbitrator, institution appointed, sole arbitrator and chair under the ICC, LCIA and ICDR as well as ad hoc. She is currently a member of the LCIA Court, the ICC UK Arbitration and ADR Committee, the International Advisory Committee of the ICDR and a member of the ICCA-ASIL Task Force on Damages in International Arbitration. She is on various panels of arbitrators including SIAC, HKIAC and KLRCA.
She also has vast experience in commercial litigation, acting for international conglomerates, utility companies, key financial regulators, as well as many foreign and national public and private companies in both international and domestic disputes over a wide range of contractual disputes, joint ventures, insurance, international trade and banking. She has appeared as leading counsel in the Supreme Court, House of Lords and Privy Council.
She has spoken and written widely on international arbitration and cross-border litigation around the world and is the author of “A Practical Guide to International Arbitration in London”.