Emilia Piskorz

Emilia is a Partner in Mishcon Private with expertise in Private Wealth Disputes, specialising in trust and estate disputes, advising and representing corporate and individual trustees, beneficiaries and those with an interest in an estate.

Emilia's work ranges from high value, complex, and hostile trust and estate litigation to Court of Protection applications and administrative trust applications. She has recently litigated in England, Jersey, Guernsey, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Monaco, Bermuda, Cayman, Hong Kong, Singapore and New Zealand.

In Legal 500 2024 Emilia was described as "supremely talented, super bright, amazingly organised and a genuinely fun person to work with" and according to Chambers 2025 "really on top of her game".  

Emilia is an affiliate member of STEP. She is a committee member of ConTrA, the Contentious Trusts Association and a full Member of ACTAPS (The Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists).

Key Experience

• Advising two protectors on an application by the beneficiary of a Guernsey trust worth circa $0.5bn for their removal following their resistance to proposed changes to the trust structure (In the Matter of The Bilevese Trust [2025] GRC060).
• Acting for a client with a family member facing capacity issues with an estate worth hundreds of millions and assets in Guernsey, Florida and England and Wales. Providing strategic advice in relation to both English Court of Protection proceedings and Guernsey proceedings in relation to the family member, the Guernsey proceedings involving the relatively novel application of Guernsey law in respect of those without capacity.
• Acting for a corporate trustee in relation to an application for directions to the Jersey Court in respect of its proposed replacement and the purported appointment of a protector.
• Assisting a settlor and beneficiary of a Singaporean trust with an application for relief for mistake in relation to transfers into the trust with potential inadvertent tax consequences.
• Acting for beneficiaries in a complex high value multi-jurisdictional trust dispute (including G v SG Kleinwort Hambros [2023] JCA 088).
• Acting in a multi-billion pound dispute for high-net worth individuals in a global fraud and cross border estate dispute across numerous jurisdictions, including England, USA, Monaco, Panama, Latvia, Switzerland and Cyprus.

Career History

Partner, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Managing Associate, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Associate, Taylor Wessing LLP
Associate, Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co LLP
Trainee, Lawrence Graham LLP
College of law, LPC
BPP Law School, GDL
Durham University, BA (Hons) History

Articles and Publications

• 'What happens when a settlor or powerholder loses capacity?',Trusts & Trustees, Volume 28, Issue 3, Oxford University Press, April 2022
• 'Trust deeds: Filling in the blanks', Trusts & Estates Law and Tax Journal, March 2018
• 'Not guaranteed: departing trustees' rights of retention', November 2017
• 'Modern families' Tatler adress book October 2024