Helen Elmer is an English-qualified associate in the Dubai office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s International Arbitration and Litigation practice groups. She has practiced in London, Dubai and Hong Kong.
Helen specialises in international arbitration and complex commercial litigation. She represents clients in relation to M&A disputes, investment disputes, infrastructure and energy disputes, and matters involving fraud and white-collar crime. Helen acts in arbitrations under all of the major institutional rules. She has broad experience, including litigation at the interlocutory, trial and appellate levels, before the High Court of England & Wales, the Privy Council, and defending proceedings brought in the UAE. She has also acted on multiple high-value arbitrations across jurisdictions, both for and against sovereign and private entities. She has acted for a broad range of clients including multinational corporations, construction firms, investment firms and sovereign governments.
Helen trained at Gibson Dunn. She was admitted as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales in 2018 and received rights of audience before the Civil Higher Courts in 2023. She has spent seven years working in the firm’s London office and one year working in the Hong Kong office.
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Credentials
Education:
- BPP Law School - 2016 Legal Practice Course
- Kaplan Law School - 2014 Graduate Diploma in Law
- University of Oxford - 2013 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- England & Wales - Solicitor