Zoë Hillman SC
Called 2013

Telephone

02 8039 7216

Practice Areas

Banking & financial services

Class actions

Commercial & contract law

Competition & consumer law

Corporations & insolvency

Directors’ duties and professional services matters

Property & equity

Regulatory proceedings & investigations

Royal Commissions and Special Commissions of Inquiry

Zoë is briefed in a wide range of complex commercial matters. She has significant experience in trials (including class actions, penalty proceedings, consumer law, contractual and trusts disputes), appeals, regulatory investigations and inquiries. Zoë’s clients include banks and their executives, insurers, insolvency practitioners, trustees, a wide range of public and private companies and their directors, officers and senior members of management of corporate entities.

Zoë was appointed Senior Counsel in 2026. Prior to her appointment, Zoë was consistently recognised in industry guides as amongst the leading junior barristers at the New South Wales Bar over many years. The Legal 500 ranked Zoë as a Leading Junior of the Australian Bar (Tier 1) in commercial disputes, having recognised Zoë as a “stand out” who is “highly recommended and strong in financial services“. She was also previously recognised as Leading Class Actions Junior Counsel (Australia), Leading Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution Junior Counsel (NSW) and Leading Insolvency and Reconstruction Junior Counsel (NSW) in Doyle’s Guide. She is listed in Best Lawyers (Australia) for Litigation.

Zoë is a regular speaker at continuing professional education seminars and symposia, is the author of the Lexis Guide to Banking, Bills of Exchange and Letters of Credit and has recently updated the Hon. G Bellew SC’s chapter on Costs in the Federal Court for Lexis’ Federal Civil Litigation Precedents.

Zoë is committed to fostering fairness, equity and diversity in the law. She has served as a member of the New South Wales Bar Association’s Diversity and Equality Committee, on the Executive of the NSW Women Barristers’ Forum and is a member of a Bar Association Professional Conduct Committee.

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