London

Lista Cannon
Partner-in-Charge

Fulbright & Jaworski’s* London location has been established for more than 30 years, and has undergone significant strategic growth since 2004, with the addition of English lawyers with decades of experience and international reputations in dispute resolution (especially international arbitration, commercial litigation and regulatory disputes), corporate investigations, energy, project finance and intellectual property.

As one of the world’s leading financial and business centres, London is headquarters or a major corporate hub for many of Fulbright’s clients. Fulbright’s London location works closely with its other fifteen affiliated locations throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia to provide seamless local, cross-border and multi-jurisdictional legal capabilities.

Fulbright’s London lawyers focus on dispute resolution (especially international arbitration, commercial litigation and regulatory disputes), corporate investigations, energy, project finance, energy and infrastructure project development, intellectual property, insurance, commercial acquisitions and commercial agreements, and Fulbright’s English partners are recognised as leading practitioners within these fields.

Client Service

Based upon survey responses of over 1,000 corporate counsel, Fulbright received the first-ever Client Choice Award from the International Law Office, the official online media partner of the International Bar Association. Fulbright’s long-standing client relationships are based upon highly personal service and advice that is both practical and pragmatic.

Commercial Litigation

Fulbright’s London lawyers regularly handle significant commercial disputes in all of the higher English Courts, including the High Court, Court of Appeal, House of Lords and Privy Council. The disputes frequently involve multi-jurisdictional issues, and arise out of finance, energy, projects, construction and engineering, professional liability, insurance and reinsurance and general commercial transactions.  The disputes team has wide-ranging judicial review expertise.  It has long experience of all forms of alternative dispute resolution, with the team including accredited mediators.

Fulbright’s litigation and arbitration strengths are enhanced by our ability to draw upon our market-leading practice support capability, involving Fulbright's e-discovery and information management team of over 60 legal professionals dedicated to dealing with the increasingly complex issues relating to electronic discovery, electronic disclosure and information management in dispute resolution. Fulbright’s electronic discovery and information management team is a vital part of all of our international and domestic litigation.

Fulbright’s litigation lawyers advise our clients on dispute resolution strategies and on related risk assessment and strategies.

Chambers U.K. Leaders lists Lista Cannon, Fulbright's London partner-in-charge, as “recommended in dispute resolution.”

Regulatory Disputes and Professional Disciplinary Proceedings

Fulbright’s government investigations and enforcement lawyers have acted in some of the most significant and important domestic and trans-national regulatory investigation and enforcement proceedings in recent years. This involves coordinating the range of regulatory responses that trans-national investigations require.

This includes FSA and SEC investigations, but also a wide range of investigations by a diverse range of bodies, including the Department of Trade and Industry, Treasury Select Committee, Lloyd’s of London, the Office of Fair Trading, US Department of Justice and Regulators in numerous other jurisdictions worldwide.

The Financial Times commends Lista Cannon, partner-in-charge of Fulbright’s London location, as a “dual-qualified lawyer who has made significant contribution to international financial regulatory investigations,” naming her in its list of the 16 most Innovative Lawyers in the United Kingdom for 2006.

Legal 500 lists Chris Warren-Smith, a Fulbright London partner, as “recommended” practitioner in the area of professional negligence.

In addition, our lawyers have wide experience of representing professional firms and their partners in Disciplinary Proceedings brought by Regulators and Professional Bodies.

Corporate Investigations

Fulbright London disputes lawyers have a long track record in conducting corporate investigations and preparing reports for a wide range of audiences in many jurisdictions worldwide. The core litigation and arbitration skills, combined with our market-leading practice support and document management systems, enable us to carry out investigations that will prove decisive to the outcome of regulatory proceedings, disputes, or important corporate decisions.

The work spans all key industries such as banking, finance, energy, the professions, insurance, tax, telecommunications and transport, and areas as diverse as price-fixing, anti-corruption, fraud, whistle-blowing, bidding practices, intellectual property rights and procurement policies.  The investigations have involved countries and regions all over the world including the U.K., U.S., Russia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, the Channel Islands, Asia and Australasia.  The depth and breadth of experience in the London location together with the affiliated Fulbright locations worldwide enables us to offer a seamless domestic and international service with a high level of practical and pragmatic advice.

International Arbitration

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Fulbright’s London lawyers are recognised as leading practitioners in international arbitration and are part of one of the world’s premier international arbitration practices.

Legal 500 lists David Howell, co-chair of the firm's International Arbitration practice, as a "strategic thinker," and noted London partner Jonathan Sutcliffe's  arbitration work, after his return to London from a secondment in Fulbright's Houston location.

Chambers UK also recognized London's arbitration capabilities, recognizing Howell as "a valued figure in energy disputes" and a practitioner who has "a lot of transactional experience and great skill in litigation," and Sutcliffe as "an extremely able practitioner who is highly rated by everyone he works with."

Current and recent matters include arbitrations in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the U.S. in the energy/oil and gas, construction and engineering, insurance and reinsurance, utilities, financial sectors and investor-state/treaty arbitrations. Fulbright lawyers act regularly as counsel and advocates in international commercial arbitrations held under a variety of arbitration rules including:

Fulbright’s international arbitration team assists international commercial and state-party clients all over the world. Fulbright lawyers regularly serve as arbitrators and mediators, and regularly speak and write on international arbitration topics, including in Fulbright's 2007 International Arbitration Report.

Fulbright’s London lawyers are experienced in foreign investment disputes, including claims arising out of bilateral and multilateral investment treaties.

Intellectual Property/Patent Litigation

Fulbright’s London location has the capacity and capability to establish teams of lawyers with multi-disciplinary skills to act for clients in intellectual property disputes and transactions.

Fulbright’s London lawyers have worked with clients from a wide range of industries and technologies on UK, trans-Atlantic and cross-border matters. Fulbright’s London IP lawyers regularly cooperate and work in conjunction with other Fulbright IP lawyers in the United States, the Middle East and China and long-established correspondent firms in Europe and elsewhere. Experienced in contentious matters in the European Patent Office, Fulbright’s London lawyers are also well-versed in world-wide patent infringement and trade mark infringement cases.

Fulbright’s London lawyers are experienced in patents, trade marks, design rights and copyright. Industry sectors in which we have particular IP experience include:

Fulbright’s London IP lawyers are also experienced in brand management programmes that extend to communications, food and drink, finance, travel, the media and broadcasting.

Energy

Fulbright’s London lawyers advise on projects and transactions across the energy sector, providing a comprehensive service to the energy and natural resources industry. Fulbright’s lawyers have in-depth knowledge and experience of advising clients in the sector including:

• upstream sectors
• downstream sectors
• LNG
• power and natural resources sectors
• alternative energy-related projects

Fulbright’s London lawyers offer a full range of legal services to energy clients and are experienced in structuring, negotiating and developing agreements for the acquisition and disposal of:

• oil and gas reserves, production and business platforms
• energy and natural resource companies
• host government, operating, service and other related industry-specific agreements and arrangements
• public bid tenders for privatisations and concessions and production sharing agreements in emerging markets

Fulbright’s London lawyers practice in one of the centres of the energy sector and have extensive experience advising on both domestic UK energy matters, as well as international projects and transactions in Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and the Indian Sub-Continent.

Project Finance

Fulbright’s London lawyers handle project development and financing transactions for clients throughout the world, representing developers and owners of projects, as well as investors and lenders, notably in the power sector.

Fulbright’s lawyers also are involved in initial and secondary public offerings of equity and debt securities, private equity and debt financing, venture capital arrangements and leasing transactions.

Fulbright’s project finance lawyers represent issuers and underwriters based in Europe in connection with listings on the various U.S. stock exchanges and in public offerings in the United States, overseeing initial and secondary public offerings of equity and debt securities, private equity and debt financing, venture capital arrangements and leasing transactions.

Fulbright assists clients in developing financing strategies for projects and investments to comply with and benefit from local tax, foreign exchange, foreign investment incentives and commercial laws and regulations. In addition to advising international clients in the U.S. on financial regulatory matters (i.e., SEC filings and investigations, Sarbanes-Oxley), we provide financial regulatory advice to British and international companies doing business in the U.K.

Acquisitions and Dispositions

Fulbright’s London lawyers have represented English, European, Middle Eastern, African and Asian companies and investors in the purchase and sale of companies and assets, often in the oil and gas and other energy-related sectors.

Fulbright’s M&A lawyers have also represented UK governmental agencies and departments and other foreign sovereigns with respect to U.S. legal matters. Fulbright’s lawyers have also advised on the tax planning and structuring of various specific types of investments in the U.S., including real property acquisitions. Such advice often spans many legal areas, including corporate, banking, securities and tax law.

Commercial Matters

Fulbright’s London lawyers are regularly involved in the negotiation and documentation of international joint ventures, licensing, distribution, agency, technology transfer, technical assistance and other commercial agreements. Fulbright also advises on foreign investment and international trade matters.

Legal 500 lists Jeremy Sheldon, a Fulbright London partner, as “hands on and very experienced” in the fund formation of private equity and Chris Warren-Smith as one of the two top lawyers in Corporate & Commercial - Financial Services.

Awards

• Fulbright listed among the best U.S. law firms in London at the 2006 Legal Business Awards.
• London partners Lista Cannon and Christopher Clement-Davies listed as leaders in the legal profession in the UK by Legal Business’ 2007 Legal Experts Directory. Read more . . .
• Fulbright's Christopher Clement-Davies named by Project Finance Experts Guide as among World’s Leading Project Finance Lawyers. Read more . . .
• Fulbright's Lista Cannon named among Financial Times’ Most Innovative Lawyers. Read more . . .
• Fulbright's Jeremy Sheldon listed in Energy and Natural Resources in Legal Business Legal Experts 2006 and a recommended energy lawyer in PLC Which Lawyer?
• Fulbright's David Howell named as a leading international arbitration practitioner in the 2007 Global Counsel Dispute Resolution Handbook, 2006 Who's Who Legal Commercial Arbitration and 2007 Euromoney World's Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration.