Brendan Hord is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s London office. He joined the firm in 2021. His practice focuses on international commercial arbitration, investor-state arbitration and commercial litigation. Brendan was admitted as a solicitor in Australia in 2019.
Prior to joining the firm, Brendan clerked for a judge of the Federal Court of Australia and worked as a solicitor at a leading international law firm in Sydney. He graduated with a JD from the University of Sydney ranked second in his class. He was awarded a scholarship to undertake an LLM at the University of Cambridge, which he completed with First Class Honours.
- University of Cambridge
(LL.M., First Class Honours, 2021) - University of Sydney
(J.D., Equivalent First Class Honours, 2017)- 2nd Place in Class
- Sydney Law Review:
- Student Editor
- University of Sydney
(Bachelor of Political, Economic and Social Sciences, 2013)
- Supreme Court of New South Wales
- High Court of Australia
- Admitted in Australia only (practising under the direct supervision of a member of the bar of England and Wales)
- Judicial Clerk (Associate) to the Honorable Justice Kathleen Farrell:
- Federal Court of Australia, 2018
- Brendan Hord, ‘Murphy v Electoral Commissioner: Between Severance and a Hard Place’ (2017) 39(3) Sydney Law Review 395
- John Colvin & Brendan Hord, ‘Criminal Director Liability: A Bridge Now Too Far?’ (2020) 35(2) Australian Journal of Corporate Law 187
- Leon Chung, Guillermo Garcia-Perrote & Brendan Hord, ‘Preliminary Discovery in International Arbitration: An Australian Perspective’ (2020) Kluwer Arbitration Blog