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Kate Jackson-McGill KC is head of Skadden’s Europe International Litigation and Arbitration Group. Her practice focuses on complex, cross-border litigation and commercial and investment treaty arbitration (ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, SIAC, LMAA, ICSID, PCA), with extensive experience in arbitrations seated in and under the governing laws of both common and civil law jurisdictions, as well as public international law. She also regularly acts for clients before the English court and in offshore litigation.

Ms. Jackson-McGill represents clients at all stages of international and cross-border disputes. She has particular experience in solving complex, multijurisdictional and multifaceted disputes where all stages of litigation and/or arbitration (from interim relief to trial and final award/judgment) are just one of a number of tools deployed to achieve her client’s objectives. Her experience spans sectors, including crypto, technology, energy, telecommunications, mining, pharmaceutical, automotive and construction. She also sits as arbitrator on single- and three-member tribunals.

Ms. Jackson-McGill recently served as secretary to the International Bar Association’s Arbitration Committee and on the ICC Task Force considering dispute resolution in the context of climate change and the Paris Agreement, and is a former member of the ICC U.K. Appointments Committee. She also sits on the Executive Committee of the Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy and was co-chair of the 2022 Institute for Transnational Arbitration Workshop. She is a former YIAG (LCIA) co-chair.

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Kate Jackson-McGill KC is head of Skadden’s European international litigation and arbitration group. She acts in significant disputes in the oil and gas, telecoms and engineering sectors. She is highly adept at proceedings held under LCIA, ICC and ICSID rules, and often deals with complex questions of foreign law.

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