Simon Jacobs
Partner,
Dispute Resolution
A commercial litigator with substantial experience in advising upon complex high value claims across a broad spectrum and with experience in the emerging market in commercial litigation funding arrangements, as well as being a firm proponent of and participant in alternative dispute resolution.
Media, entertainment and intellectual property. Since qualification Simon has acted for and advised Record and Publishing Companies, Artistes, and owners of Intellectual Property Rights (copyright, trademark, passing off, Design Rights) in numerous disputes.
Business and Commercial Disputes. Has acted in a wide range of claims across the whole spectrum of values for individuals, companies and organisations in relation to breach of contact, restrictive covenant, confidential information. Disputes in relation to assets and claims for breaches of fiduciary duty in the UK and internationally. Professional negligence claims against professionals across the spectrum. Privy Council agent in various matters. Partnership disputes; shareholder disputes; breaches of directors fiduciary duty; directors disqualification
Insolvency and Fraud: acted and advised on numerous matters arising from Freezing Orders and commercial frauds often with extra-territorial implications.
High profile gambling debt dispute involving worldwide freezing orders and multiple jurisdictions including defeating application for summary judgment
Claimant trustees of a Caribbean Estate successfully locating significant missing assets and securing recovery and release including significant work in North America
Claimant in heavily contested royalty dispute with a history spanning 4 decades and succeeding in establishing liability as well as the ability to recover the liabilities over more than 20 years
For Administrator in substantially disputed conduct of claims in the Administration relating to UK property involving the hearing of more than 30 interim applications before achieving the purpose of and successfully exiting the Administration having fulfilled its purpose
For Executors of Estates in various high value claims involving complex issues of alleged breaches of fiduciary duty as basis for Insolvency of the Estate exiting the same successfully
BA (Hons) LLB Middlesex Polytechnic 1986
1997 to date: Partner, Seddons
1994: Associate Seddons
1990: Solicitor Woolf Seddon Roscoe Phillips
(successor to Ingram Ansell Levy)
1989: Solicitor McKenna & Co
1987: Trainee Solicitor Ingram Ansell Levy