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Hiluta, Megan
Direct Tel: +44 20 7653 2038
London
Tel: +44 20 7653 2000 Fax: +44 20 7653 2100

Megan Hiluta (nee Betts) is a senior associate in Quinn Emanuel’s London office. 

Megan specialises in corporate disputes relating to ‘busted deals’ and share purchase agreements, the technology sector and media disputes. She has extensive experience acting for corporations and individuals in litigation before the English Courts and arbitrations and under a range of applicable laws and across major arbitral institutions (including SIAC, ICC, LCIA and HKIAC). She acts both claimant and defence side in shareholder disputes, in high value arbitrations, and more recently taking a lead role in the team pursuing a £2.2bn collective action against Meta before the Competition Appeal Tribunal.

Her recent experience includes acting for: Caliplay, a Mexican online gambling company, in its high value dispute with a subsidiary of UK listed company Playtech, spanning the Courts of England and Mexico; the FDIC in its competition law claim against the BBA, RBS, Lloyds, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, and UBS in relation to USD LIBOR manipulation in the English High Court; and the sellers under a English-law governed share purchase agreement in a Singapore seated arbitration worth in excess of USD$500m.

Megan joined the firm in 2020, having previously trained at a Magic Circle law firm before practising in the international dispute resolution team at an international law firm.

  • University of Nottingham
    (LL.M., Public International Law, with merit, 2016)
  • University of Law Bloomsbury, London
    (L.P.C., with Distinction, 2015)
  • St Peter’s College, University of Oxford
    (Jurisprudence, 2014)
  • Solicitor, England & Wales
  • Recognized as a Recommended Lawyer in Fraud: Civil by Legal 500 UK, 2025.
  • Recognized as a Recommended Lawyer in Competition Litigation by Legal 500 UK, 2025.
  • Recognized as a Recommended Individual in Competition Litigation by Legal 500 UK, 2024.
  • The Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Third Party Funding and Security for Costs in International Arbitration, Kluwer Arbitration Blog, July 2020
  • Securing Witness Evidence: English Courts to the Rescue of Foreign Arbitrations, Kluwer Arbitration Blog, May 2020
  • New Balance and Fellaini… have you signed on the dotted line?, Allen & Overy Compact Contract Blog, May 2018
  • Devil’s in the detail: is your notice of breach good enough?, Allen & Overy Compact Contract Blog, Jan 2018
  • Implied terms and umbrella agreements don’t shelter clients from CFAs, Allen & Overy Compact Contract Blog, August 2017
  • Judicial Review of financial ombudsman decisions – Wednesbury unreasonableness, Allen & Overy Litigation Review, April 2017