Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP

International Litigation and Arbitration

Partner and head of Skadden’s Europe International Litigation and Arbitration Group.

Kate Jackson-McGill KC is head of Skadden’s Europe International Litigation and Arbitration Group. Her practice focuses on complex, cross-border litigation and commercial and investment treaty arbitration (ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, SIAC, LMAA, ICSID, PCA), with extensive experience in arbitrations seated in and under the governing laws of both common and civil law jurisdictions, as well as public international law. She also regularly acts for clients before the English court and in offshore litigation.

Ms. Jackson-McGill represents clients at all stages of international and cross-border disputes. She has particular experience in solving complex, multijurisdictional and multifaceted disputes where all stages of litigation and/or arbitration (from interim relief to trial and final award/judgment) are just one of a number of tools deployed to achieve her client’s objectives. Her experience spans sectors, including crypto, technology, energy, telecommunications, mining, pharmaceutical, automotive and construction. She also sits as arbitrator on single- and three-member tribunals.

Ms. Jackson-McGill recently served as secretary to the International Bar Association’s Arbitration Committee and on the ICC Task Force considering dispute resolution in the context of climate change and the Paris Agreement, and is a former member of the ICC U.K. Appointments Committee. She also sits on the Executive Committee of the Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy and was co-chair of the 2022 Institute for Transnational Arbitration Workshop. She is a former YIAG (LCIA) co-chair.

England & Wales

Legal Practice Course, BPP University, 2002 Post Graduate Diploma In Law, BPP Law School, 2001 B.A., University College London, 2000 (Honors)