Jenny McKeown is a Partner and the Head of Employment, Pensions, Private wealth, Immigration, Contentious & Corporate Tax practice Group at Stephenson Harwood LLP.
Jenny is a leading contentious trusts specialist. She is widely recognised for her experience in complex, high value trust disputes in the private wealth, pensions, banking and financial services sectors (both onshore and offshore). She acts for trustees, beneficiaries, corporates, financial services firms, financial institutions, insurers and private individuals.
Jenny has acted on a number of high-profile claims and trust disputes both onshore and offshore. Her experience ranges from advising on technical areas of rectification and construction of trust documentation to applications for disclosure of information and seeking to hold trustees to account. Jenny has particular expertise in professional negligence claims against trustee advisors and representing trustees in fraud proceedings. She also has extensive experience of third-party litigation funding and insurance arrangements and recovering assets obtained in breach of trust.
Jenny is valued by clients for bringing a commercial and pragmatic approach to complex legal issues. Jenny is ranked in the Hall of Fame for Contentious Trusts and Probate and Pensions Litigation in Legal 500 UK and is ranked in both the Chambers & Partners UK and HNW guides.
She is regularly asked to speak at conferences on topical issues and has written a number of published articles.
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Updated at: 14/07/2024