Jeremy Gordon

Partner

Jeremy specialises in contentious trusts and estates work. He has been involved in some of the highest-profile trusts disputes of recent years, and over the course of his career has worked in most of the leading trust jurisdictions, onshore and offshore.

Jeremy has built up over 25 years’ experience handling contentious trusts and estates cases in their many different guises, advising trustees, executors, beneficiaries and protectors on the wide range of issues they give rise to, with much of his work having an international dimension.

Although some cases unavoidably end up in Court, Jeremy strives wherever possible to secure the resolution of trusts and estates disputes by alternative means, appreciating that many of these cases involve the breakdown of family relationships.

Jeremy is a CEDR accredited mediator.

Jeremy lectures widely in the area of contentious trusts and estates. He is also named in Band 1 in the Contentious Trusts section of Chambers Directory and as one of the Leading Individuals in the same field in the Legal 500 directory.

Jeremy has been listed in ALM’s Private Client Global Elite 2019.

Jeremy qualified as a solicitor in 1991.

Recognitions

The Legal 500 2026

Contentious Trusts and Probate

Hall of Fame

Chambers HNW 2025

Private Wealth Disputes

Band 1

Spear's 2025

Contentious Trusts Lawyers

Recommended

Memberships & Accolades

Jeremy is is listed as a Recommended 2021, Tax and Trust lawyer in Spear's 500 Magazine 2021 edition as well as a Top recommended 2020, Contentious tax and trust lawyer. He is also listed in the Private Client Global Elite 2021 directory.

Reported Cases

Recent work highlights and reported cases include:

Inchabld v Inchbald [2016] EWHC 3215 (CH)
JSC Mezhdunarodniy Promyshelenniy Bank & Others v Sergei Viktorovich Pugachev & Others [2015] EWCA Civ 139
FHR Europe Ventures LLP and others v Cedar Capital Partners LLC and Others [2014] UKSC 45
AB Jnr & Or v MB & Ors [2013] (1) CILR 1
Re P [2009] EWHC 163
Ian Franses (Liquidator of Arab News Network) v Al Assad (and others) [2007] EWHC 2440 (Ch)
Tayeb v HSBC Bank plc [2004] All Er 1024
Taylor v Midland Bank Trust Company [2002]
Aroso v Coutts & Co [2001] EWHC Ch 44

Testimonials

"Jeremy Gordon is universally recognised as [one] of the top contentious trusts and probate litigators in England, and in the offshore trust jurisdictions." (The Legal 500 2026)

"Jeremy is just reassuring to work with. His understanding as a litigator is focused on the law, but he is also understanding of personalities and the human approach." (Chambers HNW 2025)

"Jeremy is one of the best-known contentious trusts and estates lawyers in the field. He is one of the leading trust litigators globally – brilliant, strategic, tireless, incredibly effective." (Chambers HNW 2025)

"Jeremy is about the best in the business. He is very lovely with great experience and judgement. He makes good calls." (Chambers HNW 2025)

"Jeremy Gordon is fantastic to work with, very experienced, takes everything in his stride and exercises great judgement." (Chambers HNW 2024)

"Jeremy Gordon – an ‘A list’ practitioner in this area, an effortless strategist who is able to negotiate with polite force." (Legal 500 2023)

"Jeremy is a real class act who is very quick to make the right calls. Gordon is also a respected mediator...he has the capability to settle the unsettleable." (Chambers HNW 2022)

"Jeremy Gordon is great to work alongside or against. He is so experienced, able and affable but not afraid to be tough when necessary. Clients, rightly feel safe in his hands." (The Legal 500 2022)

"The Rolls-Royce of private client litigation firms. Jeremy Gordon stands out." (The Legal 500 2021)

A Lasting Legacy

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