Jon Felce
Recognised by The Legal 500 as a “rising star” “headed for the very top”, Jon is a senior commercial litigator specialising in high-value, complex international commercial disputes with particular expertise in civil fraud, enforcement and asset recovery (including both commercial and sovereign debt). The Legal 500 has called him a “bright young gun with a shrewd mind and a calm approach” and states there is “complete trust and faith in Jon’s advice and his expertise”.
Jon has wide-ranging experience of commercial disputes including contractual, shareholder, corporate, banking and insolvency matters. He is regularly instructed on claims involving deceit, breach of trust, conspiracy and misrepresentation, including in relation to management/employee fraud and cyberfraud. He is experienced in dealing with jurisdiction issues and questions of foreign law, as well as interim relief including freezing, search and disclosure orders. He has recognised and enforced judgments and arbitral awards from a number of jurisdictions including in cross-border insolvency matters and undertaken many asset tracing exercises. His work in relation to sovereign disputes in this regard has involved both commercial and investor-state arbitration awards (including in relation to the consequences of the CJEU’s decision in Achmea).
Jon is consistently singled out as a Next Generation Partner by The Legal 500 for both civil fraud (2020-2022 editions) and banking litigation (2019-2022 editions) and has been ‘highly rated’ for commercial litigation. Who’s Who Legal has recognised him as a ‘Future Leader’ for commercial litigation.
Jon has been shortlisted by Client Choice Awards for its Asset Recovery in the UK award (2021) and profiled as Law Gazette’s ‘Lawyer in the News’ (2017), His work was highly commended in the FT’s ‘Most innovative law firms in Dispute Resolution’ report in 2012.