Jennifer Ronz

Jennifer has a strong understanding of private wealth and commercial disputes strategy, cross-jurisdictional issues and has excellent experience working with a wide range of national and international clients in multiple jurisdictions. She has worked on a number of the Lawyers' top 20 cases including the landmark data privacy case of Dawson-Damer v Taylor Wessing pursuant to the Data Protection Act 1998.

Jennifer is admitted to practise in England and Wales.

• Advising beneficiaries of certain offshore Bahamian and Bermudan trusts in respect of Subject Access Requests under the DPA and secured a victorious and landmark judgement in the Court of Appeal for beneficiaries seeking information from data controllers.
• Advising a US ultra-high net worth individual in her capacity as executor of her late husband’s estate in respect of forced heirship claims regarding the estate under French law.
• Advising on a professional negligence claim in Gibraltar against a professional adviser in respect of defective tax advice provided to our client and the trustee and preparation for the issuance of a rescission claim in the Cayman Islands to set aside the trust and the transfers into trust on the basis of mistake.
• Advising on a successful application to vary a trust governed by Cayman law.
• Advising a beneficiary in connection with an application in the Cayman Islands for the blessing of a momentous decision by the trustee, in respect of a distribution of one half of the assets currently held in a trust holding an interest through a highly complex structure including in a publicly listed successful French pharmaceutical company valued in the region of 11 billion euros.
• Advising a beneficiary on requests for distributions and disclosure from Liechtenstein based family trusts which held assets valued in the billions of pounds.
• Advising the widow of a Lebanese domiciled, UK resident high net worth individual on claims against financial advisers in professional negligence and to remove the professional trustees (who were solicitors) under s41 (1) of the Trustee Act 1925.
• Representing the widow of a £600m estate in respect of a claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 against members of the family who had received lifetime gifts.
• Advising the trustees of a charitable company registered by guarantee which owned Europe’s largest Hindu temple in respect of a governance dispute with a charitable unincorporated association which claimed ownership of the temple’s assets, in particular obtaining authorisation to commence charity proceedings under s115 of the Charities Act 2011 and preparing for and attending with counsel a successful strike out application hearing.
• Assisting in acting for over 240 high net worth individual investors in a £100m claim against a British media investment group whose film/video game partnerships have been branded as tax avoidance schemes by HMRC, including claims against intermediaries. The case has been listed in the top 20 cases of the year by the Lawyer.
• Acting on behalf of a UAE-based IOC in two PCA-administered ad hoc arbitrations against a Middle-East NOC in relation to its total failure to supply pursuant to a long-term gas supply agreement, including successfully obtaining an award of damages of US$2.4 billion in favour of client; successfully defending the US$2.4 billion award in challenges to the English High Court and Court of Appeal pursuant to ss.67, 68 and 69 Arbitration Act 1996; subsequently enforcing the US$2.4 billion award as well as acting in an ongoing second arbitration with claims of up to US$30 billion.