Rebecca Hume

Rebecca Hume is a partner at Howard Kennedy LLP in London, where she represents clients in complex commercial disputes and multi-jurisdictional insolvency cases. She is particularly skilled at cross-border debtor disputes, international fraud, asset-tracing and recovery, and international judgement and award enforcement. Ms. Hume’s assignments often involve complex hedge funds and private-equity structures. She is a solicitor often called upon to help clients realise value in distressed situations where there is large-scale fraud or wrongdoing. Ms. Hume’s clientele includes insolvency practitioners and foreign officeholders of bankrupt estates, directors and officers, fund managers and administrators, investors, and HNWIs located in onshore and offshore jurisdictions. She previously spent more than 12 years working offshore and was admitted to practice in the Cayman Islands and the BVI. As well as being involved in complex assignments in these jurisdictions, Ms. Hume frequently co-counsels with other law firms, particularly in the U.S. and Europe. She has pursued cases in many jurisdictions, including the U.S., The Bahamas, Bermuda, Hong Kong and the PRC, successfully assisting her clients in the recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars. Ms. Hume regularly speaks at domestic and international conferences. She sits on the advisory board of the ThoughtLeaders4 FIRE International Conference on fraud and asset recovery, and on the steering committee of Cambridge Forum’s International Enforcement of Judgements and Awards Forum. Ms. Hume is Europe Networks Director of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation. She also sits on the IWIRC UNCITRAL Committee and is a member of the Europe Network, and she is a member of R3 Association of Business Recovery professionals, INSOL and 100WF. Ms. Hume received both her LL.B. and LL.M. from Nottingham Trent University.