Elyse Hilton

Elyse Hilton is a partner practicing in the firm’s litigation & dispute resolution and reconstruction and insolvency groups. She acts for public and private companies, as well as high-net-worth individuals.

Her practice has an emphasis on large-scale commercial litigation (including class actions and royal commissions), corporate regulatory investigations, reconstruction and insolvency, and contract and trust disputes.

Elyse is noted by the Legal 500 Asia Pacific as a ‘next-generation partner’ for her expertise in the area of dispute resolution and was recently listed in the Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Restructuring & Insolvency Lawyers guide.

Elyse was a member of the ABL team that won ‘Insolvency & Restructuring Deal of the Year’ and ‘Australia Deal of the Year’ for its work on the Arrium administrations at the 2018 Australasian Law Awards. She also appeared in a landmark case involving the administration of the Ten Group regarding the independence of administrators.

She has also acted for pro-bono clients, including the African Australian community of Flemington and Kensington in the seminal Federal Court racial discrimination action against Victoria Police.

Elyse graduated from The University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in marketing, and a Bachelor of Laws with first-class honors. She joined the firm and was admitted to practice in 2010. She was appointed as a partner effective July 2019.