Elizabeth A.Edmondson

On September 17, 2025, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved a policy statement (the Statement) that allows companies to include mandatory arbitration clauses in their governing documents for investor claims, reversing its longstanding practice of prohibiting companies intending to go public from doing so.

Six Jenner & Block partners have been named to Lawdragon’s 2025 “500 Leading Global Litigators” list. The award honors top litigators and trial attorneys globally.

Many readers will be familiar with the Spanish renewables saga which centers on changes made by Spain to a renewable energy support scheme in 2007, which led to over 50 investment treaty arbitrations, including a number brought by Japanese investors. The European Commission has now invoked state aid to justify the non-payment of the resulting awards against Spain.

Jenner & Block Partners Elizabeth Edmondson and Joanna Wright have been named to Crain’s New York Business’ 2025 “Notable Litigators and Trial Attorneys” list. The annual list recognizes “the litigators and trial attorneys who ensure access to the civil justice system and further commercial activity in the region.” According to the publication, the honorees “are a talented cohort, shaping precedent and advocating for their clients across industries and issues.” 

As all eyes focus on peace talks and the future of the Russia/Ukraine conflict, Russia recently suffered another defeat in the long running Yukos saga, with the English Court of Appeal confirming that Russia could not invoke immunity against enforcement of the infamous Yukos award.

The wave of Russian sanctions imposed since the invasion of Ukraine has led to counter measures by the Russian state which are now having significant practical consequences for parties caught up in disputes with Russian entities. The English High Court decision in Google LLC and others v. Nao Tsargrad Media and others1 provides a particularly noteworthy example.

Lawdragon has identified the accomplishments of six of our lawyers who focus on international arbitration and litigation by featuring them in the 2024 500 Leading Global Litigators guide. The Jenner partners included in the guide are Kenneth Beale, Elizabeth Edmondson, Laura MacDonald, Terri Mascherin, James Rogers, and Lizzie Shimmin.

In a decision of potential importance to arbitral award creditors and debtors, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently reversed a federal district court decision confirming an English arbitral award on the basis that the district court lacked personal jurisdiction over the award debtor.[1] The award debtor had sought to enforce its foreign award in federal court in Louisiana under the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the New York Convention

Lawdragon has identified the accomplishments of seven of our lawyers who focus on international arbitration and litigation by featuring them in the 2023 500 Leading Global Litigators guide. The Jenner partners included in the guide are Kenneth Beale, Elizabeth Edmondson, Charlie Lightfoot, Laura MacDonald, Terri Mascherin, James Rogers, and Lizzie Shimmin.

The US Supreme Court has opened the door for foreign plaintiffs to sue under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”), which provides treble damages and attorneys’ fees, to assist enforcement of an international arbitral award where the defendant attempts to frustrate enforcement of the award in the United States. On June 22, 2023, in a 6-3 opinion in Yegiazaryan v. Smagin and CMB Monaco v. Smagin, the Court held that a foreign plaintiff suing under RICO can suffer a domes

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By: Laura P. MacDonald and Elizabeth A. Edmondson

On March 31, 2022, the US Supreme Court issued a significant decision in Badgerow v. Walters, No. 20-1143, ending a circuit split about when federal courts have subject matter jurisdiction to review domestic arbitration awards under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). In an 8-1 opinion, the Court ruled that federal courts cannot “look through” to the underlying controversy to establish subject matter jurisdiction to confirm or vacate an arbitral award under the FAA. As a result, absent diversity

On September 14, Jenner & Block Partners Rachel K. Alpert, Elizabeth A. Edmondson, and Kelly Hagedorn presented a CLE webinar on Global Contracting for the Association of Corporate Counsel of New York City. They were joined on the panel by Annie Froehlich, Director and Senior Counsel, Sanctions and Export at Carrier Corporation. The panelists discussed contracting with international partners or vendors and the related issues that often come up, such as how to choose a forum for enforcement and h

The 2021 edition of The Legal 500 United States recognizes Jenner & Block in 24 national practice categories. Of those, the firm received a Tier-1 ranking in the Copyright, Native American Law, and Telecoms and Broadcast (Regulatory) categories.

Jenner & Block obtained a resounding victory when the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division, First Department ruled on a critical appeal. The court unanimously reversed a trial court decision, reinstating all four fraud causes of action (for fraudulent inducement, fraudulent concealment, fraudulent misrepresentation, and aiding and abetting fraud) that the trial court had dismissed.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound short-term effects on consumer behavior and production processes across numerous industries. In some sectors, those effects have created weakened product demand, production interruptions, increased production costs, and other types of challenges that can endanger the viability of a given supplier in the manufacturing chain. In this CLE, Jenner & Block Partners Elizabeth A. Edmondson and Robert D. Gordon will explore both transactional and litigation conside

The Supreme Court agreed last week to consider whether a federal statute allowing courts to assist “foreign or international tribunal[s]” gather evidence applies to private commercial arbitral tribunals, or whether it merely concerns state-sponsored arbitral bodies. This decision will resolve a long-running question about the extent to which 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a) can bring US courts into private foreign disputes.

The pandemic is a great time to revisit and highlight the utility of submission agreements—agreements that allow parties without pre-existing arbitration clauses to choose to submit a particular dispute to arbitration.

On May 5, 2020, Partner Elizabeth A. Edmondson spoke on “Supplier Contract Disputes in the Age of COVID-19” at the annual meeting of the Retail Litigation Center. Her talk addressed the contractual provisions and common-law doctrines that retailers and their suppliers may invoke in response to supply chain disruptions caused by the current pandemic. Ms. Edmondson is a commercial litigator focusing on domestic and international arbitrations concerning complex contractual disputes.