Withers Worldwide

• Education: University College Oxford
• Admitted: England and Wales, 1979
• Languages spoken: Italian • French
• Year joined: 1996
• Year became partner: 1996

Overview

Jeremy focuses on international and domestic commercial and civil litigation, with an emphasis on cross-border corporate insolvency, fraud and asset tracing, cultural property law, international trust disputes, interim remedies, private international law and jurisdiction disputes.

Jeremy's clients include businesses, individuals, insolvency practitioners and other professionals and foreign States.

Highlights

• SFIT v Lefebvre [2004] All ER(D) 97 - achieving discharge of €60 million asset freezing injunction
• Obtaining recommendation to British Government for return of 12th century manuscript to Metropolitan Chapter of the Archdiocese of Benevento, southern Italy (Report to Parliament of Spoliation Advisory Panel, 23 March 2005)
• Acting for the Organization of Cultural Heritage of the Islamic Republic of Iran in claims for the return of antiquities - Iran v Berend 2007 EWHC 132 (QB); French law and 'renvoi'; Iran v Barakat 2007 EWCA Civ 1374, recognition and enforcement of foreign national heritage laws, justiciability, conversion. 

Publications and speaking engagements

Jeremy writes and lectures widely on insolvency and art and cultural law issues.

Memberships

• Association of Business Recovery Professionals
• 3R
• AEPPC
• EIPA
• Insol
• International Bar Association
• Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists
• Institute of Art & Law
• British-Italian Law Association.

On a personal note

Jeremy is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; was awarded the Italian Silver Medal ai Benemeriti della Scuola della Cultura e dell'Arte, in 1994; and appointed Cavaliere, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.