Nigel Jones
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Position
Nigel Jones KC is a highly experienced courtroom and advisory leader who specialises in complex and high value, international and domestic commercial litigation & arbitration, insurance, construction and professional negligence. He is acknowledged as a leading silk in these areas and is well-known for bringing a business-like and commercial approach to his work.
"Every once in a while you come across a barrister who does and has it all - insightful and detailed legal knowledge, amazing on his feet, fabulous client bedside manner, able to predict with accuracy what the future holds and he is also commercial." (Legal 500)
Within his specialist areas he has significant experience of banking & finance and joint venture disputes, commercial fraud, private international & conflict, insurance coverage and insolvency, large infrastructure design and construction disputes and property damage. Alongside these he has considerable experience in niche areas such as franchising and commercial agency and sports law as well as the utilities sector (principally electricity).
He is also a specialist class/group action lawyer and understands the complex area of costs and the third party funding of costs in domestic and international dispute resolution.
These skills led to his appointment in 2014 as chair of the investment committee of the Harbour Funds (the UK’s largest litigation funder). Harbour is involved in investing over £400m in litigation and arbitration worldwide.
Nigel is an experienced mediation advocate and a regular lecturer who has presented lectures for the London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association, the Franco-British Lawyers Society, the British German Jurists Association, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators UAE and the Annual Arbitration Summit.
In recognition of his market leading skills and expertise, Nigel received the prestigious Commercial Litigation Silk of the Year Award 2022 (Chambers Bar Awards).
Nigel provides his services as a director of NJ (Gatehouse) Legal Limited. Registered in England & Wales, company number 10742202. Registered office: Thavies Inn House, 3-4 Holborn Circus, London, EC1N 2HA. Both Nigel and the company are regulated by the Bar Standards Board.
Mentions
London Bar
Company
HALL OF FAME2Nigel Jones KC – Gatehouse Chambers ‘Nigel is very thorough and very good at spotting points which can turn out to be significant.’
London Bar
Construction
HALL OF FAME4Nigel Jones KC – Gatehouse Chambers ‘Nigel is the most user-friendly senior member of the Bar imaginable. He is charming to his clients, shares credit with his team, thinks and expresses himself in the clearest way to clients, opponents and the court alike, and he deservedly is seen as being the leading barrister in his field.’
London Bar
Insolvency
London Bar
Insurance and reinsurance
HALL OF FAME2Nigel Jones KC –Gatehouse Chambers 'His advocacy is very strong and he has the ear of the court.'
London Bar
Professional negligence
HALL OF FAME2Nigel Jones KC –Gatehouse Chambers ‘Nigel is incredibly intelligent and accurate but also able to make complex policy explanations clear and friendly. He is also great with clients in conference.'