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Emma Jordan

Emma Jordan

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Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2025

Ranked as a Band 1 individual for Private Wealth Disputes.

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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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Trusts (contentious and non-contentious) and foundations

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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

Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2025

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Ranked as a Band 1 individual for Private Wealth Disputes.

Legal 500 UK 2025

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Spear's 500 2024

Top recommended 2024 contentious trust lawyer

Chambers and Partners High Net Worth Guide 2024

Band 1 individual

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."

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.

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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

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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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Continuing successful defence in Volpi v Volpi trust arbitration

2 April 2024

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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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Trusts (contentious and non-contentious) and foundations

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

13 October 2022

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