Emma has more than a decade’s experience acting in a diverse range of large-scale and complex disputes for multinational corporations, high net-worth individuals and government bodies. She combines her wealth of experience across litigation and arbitration matters with intellectual curiosity and genuine commercial awareness to deliver outstanding results for her clients.
Prior to joining Corrs, Emma spent more than a decade working at top tier firms in Hong Kong and London, working on some of the largest and most complex cases in those jurisdictions. Emma has worked extensively with counsel on matters of local law across more than 20 jurisdictions, including most notably Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, India, Ireland, Jersey, the PRC and Singapore.
Emma is admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales, Hong Kong, and England and Wales. She has further qualified as a solicitor-advocate in England and Wales.
Emma has contributed insights to a range of industry publications and her work has been recognised in the UK Legal 500.
Key deals
Corporate client
Acting for a global construction and engineering firm in LCIA arbitration proceedings seeking damages of approximately US$150 million against its former insurer, and in related professional negligence proceedings against the insurance broker responsible for putting the disputed insurance arrangements in place.
Corporate client
Advising a global hydrocarbons producer on a comprehensive litigation strategy to resist threatened claims spanning England and Wales, Australia, Brazil, the United States and Canada.
High-net-worth family
Acting for a group of Indian billionaires in a dispute over a series of trusts in the English Chancery Court and coordinating local counsel in related proceedings in Switzerland and Jersey.