10 SNOW HILL, LONDON, EC1A 2AL, ENGLAND
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- Work 020 7295 3000
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Jonathan Leslie
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Work Department
Litigation.
Position
Partner and head of dispute resolution department; notable cases include Westdeutsche Landesbank v London Borough of Islington (House of Lords) (interest rate swaps); Maxwell Pensions litigation; Shepherd Neame v Customs & Excise (judicial review); Ulster Bank v Commissioners for Inland Revenue (judicial review); Lawrie Plantation Services v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (House of Lords) (judicial review); Equitable Life litigation; Rock (Nominees) Ltd v ISS; Barclays Bank v Havenbedrijt, Rotterdam; Yukos v Rosneft (judicial review); AIG Starr Litigation; Shinhan Card v JP Morgan and Citibank; Sebastian Holdings v Deutsche Bank.
Career
Articled Denton Hall & Burgin; qualfied 1978; partner Travers Smith 1984.
Member
Fellow Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; City of London Solicitors’ Company; Society for Advanced Legal Studies.
Education
Highgate School; Magdalen College, Oxford (PPE 1974); London University (MA Philosophy 2002); College of Law.
Leisure
Cycling, music, philosophy.
Practice Areas
Administrative and public law; Litigation - banking; Litigation - commercial
