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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 - 2030)
Professional Appointments:
  • Treasurer, Bar Council of England & Wales (2025, 2026, 2027)
  • Bencher, The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn (Appointed 2020); Master of Events (2023 - 2025); Master of Scholarships (2025 - 2028)
  • Secretary, The International Bar Association’s Litigation Committee (2026 - 2027); 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
  • Mentor of the Year, Women & Diversity in Law Awards (2026)
  • Lifetime Achievement Award, Employed Bar Awards (2024)
  • International Legal Professional Development Grant, Commercial Bar Association (2013)
  • Scholarship to New York State and Federal Courts, Pegasus Trust (2012)
  • Florida Bar Trial Advocacy Programme Scholarship, South- Eastern Circuit (2009)
  • Lord Justice Holker Award, Gray’s Inn (2005)
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 having been the Artificial Intelligence Officer for The Litigation Committee of the International Bar Association, is now co-editing the IBA’s Global Guide for AI and Litigation.

Lucinda has held numerous 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, and in 2026 was named “Mentor of the Year” at the Women in Law and Diversity 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:

  • DailyGobble Inc -v- Anshu Jain [2026] EWHC 749 (KB)
  • Naidot & Co (1) (& Anor.) -v- Pyxis Investment Strategies LLP (& Anor.) [2026] EWHC 305 (KB)
  • Tianrui (International) Holding Company Ltd (Appellant) v China Shanshui Cement Group Ltd (Respondent) (Cayman Islands) [2023] [JCPC/2023/0002] 
  • The Libyan Investment Authority -v- Credit Suisse International [2021] EWHC 2684
  • 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)
  • Berezovsky v Abramovich [2012] EWHC 2463 (Comm); [2010] EWCA Civ 1561; [2008] EWHC 1138 (Comm)
  • Marwan -v- Sawiris & Ors [2010] EWHC 89 (Comm)
  • OJSC Oil Company Yugraneft v Abramovich & Ors [2008] EWHC 2613 (Comm)
  • Acting for property developer in a failed joint-venture
  • 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
  • JSC Commercial Bank Privatbank -v- Igor Valeryevich Kolomoisky and others [2025] EWHC 1987 (Ch)
  • Ziyavudin Magomedov & Ors -v- TPG Group Holdings (SBS), LP & Ors [2023] EWHC 3134 (Comm)
  • 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 for Defendants in an Investor dispute
  • Acting for Founder in partnership sale dispute
  • Acting in an LCIA Arbitration involving an unfair prejudice dispute and fraud allegations between Directors
  • Acting for set of companies in high-net-worth family Will and Probate dispute
  • 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
Aug 17, 2026
Cometsambre SA v Lloyd’s Insurance Company SA HIG 5321: The English High Court provides important guidance on the duty of fair presentation under the Insurance Act
Introduction and summary In a recent decision, Cometsambre SA v Lloyd’s Insurance Company SA, the English High Court provided important...
Aug 11, 2026
Estate of Euan McIntyre Lindsay & Anor v Outlook Finance Ltd & Anor [2026] EWCA Civ 1005
Can a judgment procured by fraud be set aside against a non-fraudulent party, in circumstances where an innocent party adopted...
Aug 5, 2026
Liability in the Age of AI: The UKJT confirms existing law can meet new challenges
In July 2026, the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce (“UKJT”) published its ‘Legal statement on liability for AI harms under the private...
Jul 28, 2026
Supreme Court Confirms the Narrow Scope of Issue Estoppel
The Supreme Court has delivered an important judgment on the limits of issue estoppel in Skatteforvaltningen (the Danish Customs and...