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Emma Jordan

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Emma leads our contentious trusts team in the UK. She's described by clients as a commercially astute advisor with a formidable reputation for trust litigation work. She's advised on landmark cases including the first ever action involving an insolvent trust. Emma's mandates often involve a crossborder or international element.

Emma is dual qualified as an English Barrister and a Jersey Advocate, allowing her to represent clients in the Jersey Courts directly.

She advises across aspects of contentious trusts work, and has a particular focus on representing trustees and high net worth clients.

Her practice covers civil fraud work, asset-tracing and recovery within the context of offshore trusts and structures. She also helps clients with alternative dispute resolution strategies including mediation.

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CV

Since 2015 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2014–2015 Partner, Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co LLP
2012 - 2014 Partner, Lawrence Graham LLP
2005 - 2012 Partner, Baker & Partners
2000 - 2005 English barrister, 7 Bedford Row
1999 University of Oxford, MA Jurisprudence

Career

Since 2015 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2014–2015 Partner, Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co LLP
2012 - 2014 Partner, Lawrence Graham LLP
2005 - 2012 Partner, Baker & Partners
2000 - 2005 English barrister, 7 Bedford Row

Education

1999 University of Oxford, MA Jurisprudence

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Awards

Legal 500 UK 2025

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Hall of fame

Chambers and Partners High Net Worth Guide 2024

Band 1 individual

Chambers and Partners HNW 2022

Private Wealth Disputes - Band 1: Emma Jordan is "pre-eminent in trust litigation," acknowledges a Chancery barrister. She is a dual-qualified English barrister and Jersey advocate and is well placed to handle significant offshore litigation. "She is a true pleasure to work with, both on a personal and professional level, where she demonstrates outstanding skills in handling clients and the team," enthuses an interviewee. An impressed commentator adds: "Emma is stellar, to be honest."

Legal 500 UK 2023

Contentious trusts and probate - Leading Individual: Head of department Emma Jordan is an ’experienced litigator with significant advocacy experience’.

Contentious trusts and probate - Leading Individual: Specialist team in trust litigation. Very experienced in their field. Emma Jordan: clever and composed. Good at reading complex situations and adept at handling difficult clients’. ‘Taylor Wessing is a very well known player in this market, led by the excellent Emma Jordan’. ‘Emma Jordan is a leading individual in this area who combines the managerial skill and judgment of a solicitor running large scale litigation with her practice as a Jersey advocate’.

Contentious trusts and probate (Leading individual): "Emma Jordan is an excellent solicitor and Jersey advocate, with excellent judgment and a good commercial sense. I have recommended clients to her."

Leading individual - Private Wealth Disputes (band 2): Emma Jordan is described as "an excellent lawyer handling interesting work" by one source. She has in-depth expertise in complex offshore disputes and is recognised for her experience as a Jersey advocate. "She's very sensible and has a really good grasp of tricky issues that arise in these cases," reports a barrister.

50 Most Influential

Leading individual - Private client: Contentious trusts and probate: 'Emma Jordan is one of the superstars of contentious trusts litigation. She is helped by a team of extremely able associates in particular Rob Gibson'.

Leading individual - Private Wealth Disputes (Band 2)

Leading individual - Private client: Contentious trusts and probate: Emma Jordan, who is also a Jersey advocate, is ‘highly knowledgeable and experienced’.

Leading individual: Emma is "highly knowledgeable and experienced".

Named as one of the top 100 lawyers in the UK

Leading individual - Private Client: Contentious trusts and probate: Emma Jordan heads the department at Taylor Wessing LLP; a Jersey advocate and ‘a brilliant litigator’, she is ‘at the cutting edge of "Z Trust" litigation in Jersey about insolvent trusts’.

Leading individual

Private Client Lawyer of the Year

Experience

Acting in successful Z trust litigation

The former trustee of an insolvent trust in a precedent setting case from the Court of Appeal in Jersey. The Court of Appeal held that a former trustee's equitable lien and rights of indemnity should be enforced in priority to the current trustee's rights where the trust in question is insolvent. This case was a precedent setting judgment for the trust industry and for trust legal practitioners.

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Taylor Wessing continues successful defence in Volpi v Volpi trust arbitration

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by Emma Jordan and George Porter

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Taylor Wessing successfully defends the first ever appeal in a trust arbitration Volpi v Volpi

17 January 2024

by Emma Jordan and George Porter

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Privy Council clarifies the nature and ranking of a former trustee's equitable lien in insolvent trusts

13 October 2022

by Emma Jordan and Kate Silbermann

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