Osma Hudda is an English qualified partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s London office and co-chair of the London Disputes Group. She is a member of the firm's Dispute Resolution Group.
She has broad-based dispute resolution experience including litigation and international arbitration.
Osma’s litigation experience has involved representing clients in Employment Tribunals, the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. In arbitration she has represented clients from a wide variety of industries, including construction and oil & gas, before arbitral tribunals including the ICC and LCIA.
Osma has been named in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 2016 list featuring “the best lawyers in the business – the cream of the crop from in-house, private practice and the Bar.” She is also recognised in the 2016 Legal Week Rising Stars in Litigation list, which profiles the up-and-coming litigation stars at UK top 50 and top international firms in London. Osma is recognised in The Legal 500 UK 2023 for International Arbitration and Commercial Litigation, in which clients note “Osma Hudda has both the intellectual clout to have a clear view of how the complex legal and factual issues feed into the litigation strategy, and the strong leadership and interpersonal skills needed to motivate the legal team and work closely with counsel, the client and witnesses in order to deliver that strategy – all with a keen eye on the client’s commercial interests as well.” Osma is also recognised in The Legal 500 UK 2025, which has previously remarked that Osma is “a very skilled, focused, organised lawyer, with a strong eye for both the big picture and detail”, for Commercial Litigation, Banking Litigation: Investment and Retail, International Arbitration and Public International Law. She is also ranked for International Arbitration and Litigation in the Lawdragon 500 Global Litigation Lawyers guide 2021.
She was admitted as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales in 2004.
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Credentials
Education:
- BPP Law School - 2002 Legal Practice Course
- City University London - 2001 Postgraduate Diploma in Law
- University of Oxford - 2000 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- England & Wales - Solicitor