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LONDON
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Jenny McKeown

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Work Department

Employment, pensions, private wealth, immigration, contentious trusts and corporate tax

Position

Head of the employment, pensions, immigration and private wealth practice group, Jenny is a leading contentious trusts specialist. She is widely recognised for her experience in complex, high value trust disputes in the private wealth, pensions, banking and financial services sectors (both onshore and offshore). She acts for trustees, beneficiaries, corporates, financial services firms, financial institutions, insurers and private individuals.

Jenny has acted on a number of high profile claims and trust disputes both onshore and offshore. Her experience ranges from advising on technical areas of rectification and construction of trust documentation to applications for disclosure of information and seeking to hold trustees to account. Jenny has particular expertise in professional negligence claims against trustee advisors and representing trustees in fraud proceedings. She also has extensive experience of third-party litigation funding and insurance arrangements and recovering assets obtained in breach of trust.

Jenny is valued by clients for bringing a commercial and pragmatic approach to complex legal issues. Jenny is ranked in the Hall of Fame for Contentious Trusts and Probate and Pensions Litigation in Legal 500 UK and is ranked in both the Chambers & Partners UK and HNW guides. She is included in the Private Client Global Elite directory and has recently been ranked in two separate Citywealth lists: the ‘Top 10 Power Women Trust Litigators’ and ‘Top 100 Trust Litigators and Polymaths’ where clients and peers described her as “discerning with great acumen, innovation and shrewdness. Quick witted, ingenious and clever”. Whilst heading the contentious trust team, Jenny won the Trust and Estates Litigation Team of the Year at Legal Week’s Commercial Litigation and Arbitration Awards for her victory in the Privy Council in Sachak Khan & Ors v Gany Holdings & Ors (regarding a £100 million cross border trust dispute).

She is regularly asked to speak at conferences on topical issues and has written a number of published articles.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution

(Hall of Fame)

Jenny McKeown – Stephenson Harwood

With ‘extensive experience of the process and a unique capability to determine the most commercial approach’, Stephenson Harwood‘s team regularly acts in high-profile professional negligence claims and complex regulatory disputes, including FCA and TPR investigations, both of which are cornerstones of the practice. The group regularly collaborates with the firm’s private wealth, contentious trusts, pensions advisory, and regulatory teams. Described by clients as a ‘tactical genius’, Helena Berman leads the practice and has substantial experience acting on complex pensions and trust disputes concerning the law of limitation, construction of trust documents, and defending trustees in professional negligence cases. Jenny McKeown has ‘a great eye for litigation advantage’ and is adept at advising insurers and UK law firms on professional negligence claims. Chris Edwards-Earl is a ‘very personable and effective litigator’, while Maria Chami is another name to note.

London > Private client > Contentious trusts and probate

(Hall of Fame)

Jenny McKeown – Stephenson Harwood

‘The Stephenson Harwood team goes from strength to strength’ and ‘it is brilliantly led by Jenny McKeown’, who is ‘unflappable’. The group predominantly advises ultra-high-net-worth entrepreneurs and business owners, as well as their families and trustees from around the world. The practice has continued to expand into the Asian market, with a number of the department’s most significant matters being connected with the region. It ‘stands out due to its comprehensive expertise and global reach‘ say clients, and for its work with domestic dynastic families. Helena Berman enjoyed another strong year advising on several significant contentious trusts disputes. Peter Gillis routinely leads cases with large international teams on his own.

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