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Lucinda Orr
Partner
Expertise
  • Banking & Finance Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Fraud
  • International Arbitration
  • Energy disputes (oil and gas and renewable)
  • Commodities
  • Letters of Request
  • Partnership disputes
  • Shareholder and directors’ disputes
Admissions
  • Bar of England and Wales
Qualifications & Education:
  • American History, (MSt), University of Oxford
  • Modern History (MA), University of Oxford
Public Appointments:
  • Examiner of the Court (2023-2028)
  • Treasure Valuation Committee, England, Wales and Northern Ireland (2020-2025)
Professional Appointments:
  • Treasurer, Bar council of England & Wales (2025)
  • Bencher, The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn (Appointed 2020); Master of Events (2023 - 2025); Master of Scholarships (2025 - 2028)
  • AI & Digitalisation Officer, International Bar Association (2024 – 2025)
  • Scholarship Officer, International Bar Association (2022 & 2023)
  • Co-Chair Young Litigators, The International Bar Association (2020 & 2021)
  • Co-Chair, Bar Representation Committee of England & Wales (2020 - 2023)
  • Chair, Gray’s Inn Barristers’ Committee (2020)
  • Chair, The Annual Bar Conference of England & Wales (2018)
  • Chair, The Employed Bar Committee (2017 & 2019)
  • Chair, The Bar Association for Commerce, Finance & Industry (2012-2015)
  • Elected Member of the Bar Council of England & Wales (2008-present)
Professional Accolades
  • Lifetime Achievement Award, Employed Bar Awards
  • International Legal Professional Development Grant, Commercial Bar Association
  • Scholarship to New York State and Federal Courts, Pegasus Trust
  • Florida Bar Trial Advocacy Programme Scholarship, South- Eastern Circuit
  • Lord Justice Holker Award, Gray’s Inn
Professional Associations:
  • International Bar Association
  • Commercial Bar Association
  • Bar Association of Commerce Finance and Industry
Publications:
  • The importance of Full and Frank Disclosure in Letter of Request Applications, IBA Newsletter (September 2019)
Testimonials

Lucinda has a broad commercial disputes practice, with substantial experience of complex, high-value cross-border litigation and long trials. She has acted for many high net worth individuals, large institutions, and Nation States, in some of the most consequential trials to come before the English Courts in recent years. Lucinda has also developed a specialisation in Letters of Request, and she also regularly acts as the Privy Council Agent in Appeals from offshore jurisdictions to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. As a practising barrister, Lucinda has full rights of audience in all higher courts in England and Wales and has the right to conduct litigation.


Recognised by Legal 500 as a “Leading Partner” in Commercial Litigation: Premium; ranked by Chambers and Partners in Fraud: Civil; and by Who’s Who Legal as a Leading Global Fraud and Asset Recovery Lawyer, she is described in the legal directories as “an outstanding professional”; “a class act”; “smart and hugely efficient”; and “a very strong legal mind, with a real commitment to her clients and doing whatever it takes to get them the best results”

Lucinda has been at the cutting edge of innovations for trial settings over her career – having managed the first trial with an integrated electronic trial bundle system in 2011, and also the first fully remote 12-week trial with simultaneous interpretation in 2020. She loves finding innovative solutions and harnessing new technology to ease the costs burden for clients, and is currently the Artificial Intelligence Officer for the Litigation Committee of the International Bar Association.


Lucinda has held a number of leadership roles within the legal profession, and is currently the Treasurer of the Bar Council of England and Wales. Lucinda has also been appointed by the Lord Chancellor as an Examiner of the Court pursuant to CPR 34.15, and by the Culture Secretary to the Treasure Valuation Committee, to advise on the fair market value of declared Treasure finds from England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In 2024, she was the inaugural winner of the “Lifetime Achievement” award at the Employed Bar Awards.

Graduating from Oxford University, following undergraduate and Masters of Studies degrees, Lucinda undertook her pupillage at Quadrant Chambers. Since qualification, she has practised at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan UK LLP. She joined Enyo Law in March 2014.

Representative cases:

  • Tianrui (International) Holding Company Ltd (Appellant) v China Shanshui Cement Group Ltd (Respondent) (Cayman Islands) [2023] https://www.jcpc.uk/cases/jcpc-2023-0002   
  • The Libyan Investment Authority -v- Credit Suisse International https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Comm/2021/2684.html
  • Pearson (in capacity as Additional Liquidator of Herald Fund SPC (in Official Liquidation) -v- Primeo Fund (in Official Liquidation) [2020] UKPC 3
  • The Libyan Investment Authority -v- JP Morgan & Ors [2019] EWHC 1452 (Comm)
  • Macquarie Capital (Europe) Limited -v- Nordsee Offshore MEG I GmbH [2019] EWHC 1655 (Comm)
  • The Libyan Investment Authority -v- Société Générale S.A. & Ors [2016] EWHC 2773 (Comm); [2016] EWHC 375 (Comm); [2015] EWHC 1720 (QB); [2015] EWHC 550 (QB)
  • Marwan -v- Sawiris & Ors [2010] EWHC 89 (Comm)
  • Acting for entrepreneur and founder in Boardroom dispute
  • Acting for a State in an Investor State Arbitration
  • Acting for an investor in a film financing matter
  • Acting for airline in banking dispute
  • Acting in a mining magnate dispute
  • Acting in a GBP200 million+ hotel insolvency
  • PJSC Tatneft -v- Bogolyubov & Ors [2020] EWHC 3225 (Comm)[2020] EWHC 3250 (Comm)[2020] EWHC 2437 (Comm)
  • The Libyan Investment Authority -v- Goldman Sachs International [2016] EWHC 2530 (Ch); [2014] EWHC 3364 (Ch)
  • Acting in an LCIA Arbitration involving an unfair prejudice dispute
  • Acting for set of companies in high-net-worth family Will and Probate dispute
  • Acting for entrepreneur and founder in Boardroom dispute
  • Acting for a State in an Investor State Arbitration
  • Acting for an investor in a film financing matter
  • Acting for airline in banking dispute
  • Acting in a mining magnate dispute
  • Acting in a GBP200 million+ hotel insolvency
  • Acting in a Middle Eastern family trusts’ dispute
  • Multi-centred OFAC investigation
  • Defending Freezing Injunction on assets in US and Republic of Georgia
Testimonials
News
Mar 12, 2025
BNZ v Gloriavale: Contractual discretions to be exercised for a proper purpose
Introduction In a recent judgment, the New Zealand Court of Appeal (“the Court”) has signaled a possible change of approach...
Mar 5, 2025
Settle down, settle down: High Court issues first recorded compulsory mediation order
In the landmark case of DKH Retail Limited and others v City Football Group Limited [2024] EWHC 3231 (Ch), the...
Feb 28, 2025
The Privy Council upholds shareholder’s personal right to bring a claim following an improper share issue
Enyo recently acted, alongside Ogier (Cayman) LLP,  for Tianrui (International) Holding Company Ltd  in the company’s successful appeal before the...
Feb 26, 2025
The Arbitration Act 2025 receives Royal Assent
On 24 February 2025, after years of work and public consultations spearheaded by the Law Commission, the Arbitration Act 2025...