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Jessica Foley

Senior Associate
Solicitor Advocate

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English, French, German

Jessica is a Senior Associate and Solicitor Advocate in the CMS London Dispute Resolution team.  

Jessica’s varied dispute resolution experience includes High Court and Court of Appeal litigation and commercial and investment arbitrations under the LCIA, ICC and ICSID rules.  She advises on complex commercial disputes arising from allegations of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duties, fraud, negligence and misrepresentation, as well as infringements of competition law.  Jessica also advises on compliance issues, including conducting corporate internal investigations and risk assessments, developing anti-bribery policies and procedures and responding to data breaches and data subject access requests. 

Jessica’s experience covers a range of sectors, including technology, construction, insurance and consumer products.  

In 2019, Jessica completed a secondment to the Secretariat of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), where she worked as Counsel within the Casework team. 

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Education

  • 2013 – PgDip (Legal Practice), University of Law, London
  • 2012 – LL.M., King’s College London
  • 2009 – LL.B., University of Bristol
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30/11/2022
In­ter­na­tion­al ar­bit­ra­tion law and rules in Eng­land and Wales
There is a no­tori­ously high hurdle to over­come in or­der suc­cess­fully to chal­lenge an ar­bit­ra­tion award un­der Eng­lish law. In fig­ures pub­lished by the Com­mer­cial Court in 2018, 112 chal­lenges were brought...
29/11/2021
Re­cog­ni­tion and en­force­ment of for­eign judg­ments in Eng­land and Wales
1. Is there an ex­equatur pro­ced­ure? Un­der the Re­cast Brus­sels Reg­u­la­tion (Coun­cil Reg­u­la­tion (EU) 1215/2012) ("Re­cast Reg­u­la­tion"), EU judg­ments ob­tained in pro­ceed­ings com­menced on or after 10 Janu­ary...
29/10/2021
UK Su­preme Court judg­ment provides fur­ther guid­ance on the gov­ern­ing law...
On 27 Oc­to­ber 2021, the UK Su­preme Court handed down judg­ment in Kabab-Ji Sal (Le­ban­on) v Kout Food Group (Kuwait) [2021] UK­SC 48, de­liv­er­ing fur­ther guid­ance to com­mer­cial parties and ar­bit­ra­tion prac­ti­tion­ers...
25/10/2021
Fa­cing the fu­ture of in­ter­na­tion­al ar­bit­ra­tion
New pod­cast series ex­plor­ing the evolving chal­lenges and in­nov­a­tions of in­ter­na­tion­al ar­bit­ra­tion by the mem­bers of the CMS In­ter­na­tion­al Ar­bit­ra­tion Group
20/08/2021
A new era: the UK cer­ti­fies an opt-out com­pet­i­tion class ac­tion for the...
In­tro­duc­tion In a sig­ni­fic­ant case for the UK’s com­pet­i­tion class ac­tion re­gime, the Com­pet­i­tion Ap­peal Tribunal (CAT) has cer­ti­fied (sub­ject to one con­di­tion) an opt-out col­lect­ive claim brought by...
29/09/2021
Dis­putes 101 - In­tro­duc­tion to Ar­bit­ra­tion
Wel­come to the Dis­putes 101: CMS Au­tumn We­bin­ar Series This series will take place over 11 weeks, every Wed­nes­day from 8 Septem­ber – 1 Decem­ber 2021 at 2-3pm. Part­ners and as­so­ci­ates from CMS’ lit­ig­a­tion...
01/12/2021
Dis­putes 101: CMS Au­tumn We­bin­ar Series 2021
Wel­come to the Dis­putes 101: CMS Au­tumn We­bin­ar Series 2021 This series ori­gin­ally took place over 11 weeks, every Wed­nes­day from 8 Septem­ber – 1 Decem­ber 2021 at 2-3pm. Part­ners and as­so­ci­ates from...
04/06/2021
Anti-suit In­junc­tions – The Eng­lish court con­tin­ues to ad­opt a pro-ar­bit­ra­tion...
Two re­cent de­cisions have un­der­scored the Eng­lish court’s read­i­ness to grant anti-suit in­junc­tions to en­force agree­ments for Lon­don-seated ar­bit­ra­tion. In VTB Bank PJSC v Me­jlumy­an [2021] EWHC 1386...
16/12/2020
In­ter­na­tion­al Dis­putes Di­gest - Winter Edi­tion 2020
Wel­come to the winter edi­tion of the CMS In­ter­na­tion­al Dis­putes Di­gest, the bi­an­nu­al pub­lic­a­tion of CMS’ Dis­pute Res­ol­u­tion prac­tice fea­tur­ing ana­lys­is and com­ment­ary on the ma­jor trends shap­ing the...
11/12/2020
UK Su­preme Court gives land­mark judg­ment in Mas­ter­card v Mer­ricks
Sum­mary On 11 Decem­ber 2020, the UK Su­preme Court handed down judg­ment in Mas­ter­card v Mer­ricks, dis­miss­ing Mas­ter­card’s ap­peal. This land­mark judg­ment provides cru­cial guid­ance on the stand­ard to be...
09/12/2020
Is the sun set­ting on the En­ergy Charter Treaty? An up­date on the mod­ern­isa­tion...
On 2 Decem­ber 2020, the European Com­mis­sion (the “Com­mis­sion”) in­dic­ated that if “core EU ob­ject­ives” are not met as part of the on­go­ing ne­go­ti­ations to mod­ern­ise the En­ergy Charter Treaty (the...
01/12/2020
Ar­bit­ral rules – The sea­son of change con­tin­ues: ICC Ar­bit­ra­tion Up­date
On 1 Decem­ber 2020, the ICC In­ter­na­tion­al Court of Ar­bit­ra­tion launched its re­vised ICC Ar­bit­ra­tion Rules (the “Rules”), which will ap­ply to ar­bit­ra­tions sub­mit­ted to the ICC Court from 1 Janu­ary...