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Jack Rivett

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Position

Jack Rivett has a strong commercial chancery practice, with an emphasis on company and insolvency issues. He frequently advises on and acts in cases (both contentious and non-contentious, led and unled) which have a company or financial law element. In recent years, he has acted for the successful appellants in Re Prudential Assurance Company Limited [2020] EWCA Civ 1626 (the leading case on transfers under Part VII of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000); for the successful respondent in Chalcot Training Limited v. Ralph [2021] EWCA Civ 795 (which concerned capital maintenance rules); for the successful claimant in ENRC v. Dechert & The SFO [2022] EWHC 1138 (Comm.) and [2023] EWHC 3280 (Comm.); and for Shell in derivative proceedings commenced by the environmental pressure group ClientEarth [2023] EWHC 1897 (Ch.) and [2023] EWHC 2182 (Ch.).

Career

Called 2010 (Lincoln’s Inn), Attorney-General’s Panel of Counsel (B Panel).

Memberships

Chancery Bar Association, COMBAR.

Education

MA (Cantab) (Double First), Trinity College, Cambridge; MPhil, Trinity College, Cambridge; Postgraduate Diploma in Law, City University London (Distinction) (Lord Bowen Scholarship and Hardwicke Award, Lincoln’s Inn); Bar Vocational Course (Outstanding) (Lord Denning Scholarship and Buchanan Prize, Lincoln’s Inn; The Everard Ver Heyden Foundation Prize, The City Law School).