Jessica Foley

Jess Foley represents clients in international arbitration and commercial litigation before the English courts. She has significant experience managing large-scale, high-value and complex disputes, often involving multiple jurisdictions. She works closely with clients on dispute strategy, including on matters involving multiple parties, jurisdictions, witnesses and experts. Jess has advised clients on arbitrations seated in both common and civil law jurisdictions and conducted under the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, ICSID, UNCITRAL and CIArb Rules. A former secondee to the LCIA, she has particular familiarity with LCIA arbitrations.

Jess has expertise in corporate disputes, including claims arising from SPAs and shareholder and joint venture disputes involving allegations of breach of warranty, misrepresentation, fraud and conspiracy. She has a particular interest in the technology and telecoms sector and also regularly acts on disputes in financial services, hotels and leisure, and consumer products.

Jess regularly writes on developments in international arbitration and coordinated the publication of the CMS Expert Guide to International Arbitration and the Data Driven Disputes campaign on arbitral trends. She contributed to International Arbitration in England: Perspectives in Times of Change (Kluwer, 2022) and is a member of the LCIA’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. She is a Solicitor Advocate and speaks French.