Jan Levinson

Practice Areas

Jan specialises in commercial dispute resolution, with a particular focus on media, sports, and tech disputes. He has acted for a number of big-name clients across many well publicised cases, and has extensive experience handling complex cross-border disputes, with cases spanning Japan, France, the USA, Singapore, Spain, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and India.

He has experience in all aspects of heavyweight commercial litigation; including shareholder disputes, unfair prejudice petitions, warranty claims, directors’ duties, injunctions eg around team moves and also defamation, privacy and sports. As an accredited mediator, Jan brings substantial expertise in dispute avoidance and alternative dispute resolution.

Outside of work, Jan enjoys playing sport and many genres of music and film.

Work highlights:

- Advised on various sets of claims around a Group of Companies and umbrella trust disputes, which went to trial in the Business and Property Courts resulting in awards of substantial sums and indemnity costs for the clients.

- Advised on a number of the highest profile sports claims including one of which went to the Court of Appeal where the client, a Manchester United football player, was awarded c.£5m.

- Acted on a planning dispute between a local authority and one of the largest companies in the North – the case ultimately went to the Court of Appeal (and the client successfully resisted an attempt to appeal the successful outcome to the Supreme Court).