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Clifford Chance LLP

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With Jeremy Kosky at the helm, Clifford Chance LLP ‘has an unparalleled level of experience in high value, complex and multi-jurisdictional trust disputes ranging from private client to private equity trust structures. It also has exceptional quality at all levels of seniority’. Kosky is someone who ’wears his considerable intellect lightly but applies it in great measure to complex matters’. The practice has a vast array of experience in high-value and complex disputes involving multiple jurisdictions both onshore and offshore. In addition, it is skilled at handling many high profile and heavyweight claims relating to family trusts, inheritance battles and shareholders’ disputes involving family-owned companies. Maxine Mossman has extensive trust disputes experience both domestically and offshore. Senior associate, Nicole Buncher is regularly involved in significant disputes with particular expertise in onshore and offshore trust litigation. Laura Hasson, also a senior associate, is lauded for her work with a variety of clients including financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds, protectors and beneficiaries.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Jeremy Kosky is a senior partner at the very top of his game in this field. He heads an exceptional team of highly talented more junior partners and senior associates.’

  • 'For large and complex matters they are my go-to firm and, having said that, even for smaller matters with significant sensitivities they are also at the top of the list. Having spent significant time working closely on a matter recently, the level of collaboration across a big team led by Jeremy Kosky, was exemplary.'

  • ‘Jeremy Kosky is brilliant to work with, both individually and as an utterly professional leader of small and large teams. Clients feel comfortable in his hands and as a trustee that is of huge importance when making introductions when contentious issues arise. One of the very best.'

  • 'Laura Hasson is a true star of the future and is a delight to work with. She keeps long running matters moving through a combination of diligence and empathy. Maxine Mossman is an outstanding member of the team and very highly regarded across the trust industry.'

  • ‘Unrivalled depth of experience. Jeremy Kosky is rightly market leading. Maxine Mossman is approachable, user friendly but strategically brilliant.'

  • ‘Clifford Chance has a unique practice owing to the enormous expertise it can harness from its parallel skill in private equity and privately owned (large scale) multinational companies in the commercial and M&A sphere.'

  • ‘Jeremy Kosky is a towering figure in private wealth litigation whose CV includes some of the most famous private cases ever fought. A dynamic team leader whose commitment to his client is fearless. Maxine Mossman is intelligent and personable. Great with clients. Emily Elliott is an impressive associate with a bright future ahead of her.'

  • ‘Meticulous attention to detail at all levels. Tenacious litigators. Impressive judgment. Delightful to work with.'

Work highlights

  • Advising a large family of beneficiaries in Jersey court proceedings. There is significant cross border litigation and regulatory action which threatens the Trust.
  • Advising a leading global trustee client in relation to a multi-jurisdictional trust dispute involving a London based family. The assets of the trust are held in a variety of forms (e.g., liquid investments, properties, cars, offshore businesses) and in a variety of jurisdictions. The assets are worth circa $400m.
  • Advising an institutional trustee in respect of a complex structure in which the beneficiaries are in dispute. The family is split into two branches who are in conflict and cannot agree a way forward.

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Jeremy Kosky

Other key lawyers

Maxine Mossman, Nicole Buncher, Laura Hasson, Emily Elliot, Charles Joseph