Jason Yardley

Jason Yardley, Chair of the firm's London Litigation and Arbitration Practice, is a leading lawyer with almost 30 years of international litigation and arbitration experience handling complex commercial disputes. Clients often turn to him to handle their most complex cross-border disputes involving multiple jurisdictions. Jason represents hedge funds, privately-owned groups and family offices, energy and telecommunications companies, and sovereign states.

Jason litigates claims relating to joint ventures and shareholder disputes, financing arrangements, contentious insolvency and restructuring, fraud, breaches of trust and fiduciary duty, and the multi-jurisdictional enforcement of unpaid judgments and awards. He has represented clients before all divisions of the English High Court, the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court and the Privy Council. Jason litigates large-scale disputes with links to Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and many offshore jurisdictions, and has appeared before numerous institutional and ad hoc arbitration tribunals.