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Jenner & Block's London office has been recognised in the Corporate Crime & Investigations practice area. Published annually, Chambers UK 2026 ranks the leading law firms and lawyers across the United Kingdom based on in-depth research and client feedback.

Jenner & Block’s London office has been recognised in The Legal 500 UK 2026 Edition across the following five practice areas:

Lawyers from Jenner & Block’s London Office were featured in the Pro Bono Recognition List of England & Wales.

(LONDON – July 3, 2024) Jenner & Block has expanded its London Litigation Practice with the addition of Ed Davis, a leading commercial litigator with more than 20 years of experience resolving a wide range of domestic and cross-border disputes. 

Rowley and Wright (the “Joint Liquidators”), BHS Group Limited (in liquidation) & ors v Chappell, Henningson, Chandler

In May 2022, the United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner issued client Clearview AI with an enforcement notice and a £7.5 million penalty notice. Clearview appealed the notices substantively and on jurisdictional grounds, the latter of which was subject to a preliminary issue hearing before the First-tier Tribunal in November 2022.

LONDON, 1STNovember, 2022– International law firm Jenner & Block has completed the relocation of its growing London team to new offices at 10 Exchange Square, Broadgate, in the heart of the City.

Move to Broadgate’s Exchange Square Will Accommodate Continued Growth 

In the December 2021 edition of Investment Week, Partners Jason Yardley and Elizabeth Shimmin discuss the possibility of claims under England’s securities litigation regime concerning an issuer's ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) disclosures. The article explains the trend towards mandatory and detailed ESG disclosures across the UK economy and the resulting risk of shareholder litigation.

Jenner & Block is proud to join NOTICED, the UK’s first inter-firm diversity network aimed at promoting networking opportunities to integrate, celebrate, and educate on diversity across the legal sector. The network’s objectives are to encourage diversity in the legal profession and amongst member firms with a view to making the profession more accessible to individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds and to raise awareness about issues faced by ethnic minorities, not just in accessing the pr

The firm has earned recognition from The Legal 500 UK 2022 in the following practice areas: Commercial Litigation: Premium; Fraud: White Collar Crime; International Arbitration; and Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime. In addition, three of our London partners have once again been ranked as “leading individuals” in their respective practice areas: Christine Braamskamp for Fraud: White Collar Crime & Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime; Charlie Lightfoot for International Arbi

In this article, Partners Jason Yardley and Lizzie Shimmin and Associate examine the projected growth of shareholder litigation and class actions in the UK related to environmental, social, and governance, or ESG. The authors discuss the implications of more thorough and mandatory ESG disclosures across markets.

NEW YORK – MARCH 16, 2021 – Jenner & Block today launched an expanded international Financial Services Litigation (FSL) practice to represent clients in high-stakes litigation, arbitration, contentious restructurings, monitorships, and criminal and regulatory proceedings.  As one of the few top-tier law firms able to work adversely to many major financial institutions, Jenner & Block is well positioned to represent clients in financial services and financial products litigation arising from vo

Section 1782 of Title 28 of the US Code allows foreign litigants to petition federal district courts for US-style discovery from a person or entity who “resides or is found” where the district court is located for use in a foreign proceeding.  Traditionally, foreign litigants have used this provision to seek documents or testimony from within the United States.  Last week, however, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Court held that Section 1782 allows foreign litigants in a foreign p