Jon Felce

Practice Areas

Commercial Litigation

Civil Fraud

Asset Recovery

Enforcement

International Arbitration

Banking Litigation

Career

Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP (April 2022-)

PCB Litigation LLP (subsequently PCB Byrne LLP) (May 2014 - March 2022)

Jones Day (March 2004 - April 2014)

Professional Memberships

Jon is a founding committee member of a community for next generation asset recovery practitioners, ThoughtLeaders4’s FIREStarters.

His professional memberships include the IBA Committee for Asset Recovery, Law Society of England and Wales, Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association, and the London Solicitors Litigation Association. He was formerly on the initial editorial committee of the Tech Disputes Network.

Publications

Jon is a member of Lexis PSL’s Case Analysis Expert Panel on Dispute Resolution and co-edits the England and Wales chapter of ‘Enforcement of Foreign Judgements’ (published by Kluwer Law International).

He regularly writes for publications. Recent topics on which he has written can be found here: https://cyklaw.com/team_member/jon-felce/.

Languages Spoken

English

Italian (conversational)

Work Highlights

Representing a Ukrainian businessman challenging an application for security for costs

Advising clients in relation to a high profile contractual dispute named in The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2022

Acting for Chinese and Chilean clients in relation to an alleged $1bn+ fraud claim

Advising Russian, Indian and Middle Eastern banks pursuing guarantors and promoters

Representing a private equity firm enforcing a €130m+ arbitral award against a European state, including in relation to the impact of the CJEU’s decision in Achmea (PL Holdings v Poland)

Representing investors in relation to the enforcement of a substantial ICSID award

Advising an ICA award creditor resist a section 67 Arbitration Act challenge.

Advising victims of authorised push payment and forex frauds

Advising a sovereign state resisting the enforcement of an arbitration award

Acting for a commodities trader in a €225m fraud claim

Obtaining default judgment in a dispute addressing unique interpretative issues arising out of a contract with jurisdiction and governing law clauses in favour of Great Britain

IFT S.A.L. Offshore v Barclays Bank Plc [2020] EWHC 3125 (Comm): securing permission to use disclosure to bring a claim against an alleged fraudster’s bank on behalf of the Lebanese victim of an authorised push payment fraud

Acting for a defendant in a c. US$350m Russian oligarch dispute concerning the ownership of a substantial fishing enterprise

Acting for an insolvent Russian bank relating to a £1.34bn worldwide freezing order and search order in one of Russia’s largest ever alleged frauds (Vneshprombank v Bedzhamov)

Recovering the proceeds of fraud from a fraudulent employee’s family and pursuing ground-breaking claims against the fraudster’s banks

Qatcom LLC v Jones [2018] EWHC 492 (Comm): obtaining injunctive relief for the Qatari ‘Yellow Pages’ in relation to the alleged misappropriation of its key electronic assets. Subsequently judgment was obtained on behalf of the applicant with indemnity costs awarded

Securing the cross-border insolvency recognition of a Chilean insolvency practitioner of Alberto Chang Rajii, the so-called ‘Chilean Madoff’, in relation to an alleged US$100m+ Ponzi scheme

BM-Bank JSC v Chernyakov and Erokhova [2017] EWHC 2564: obtaining a maximum 2-year prison sentence for committal for contempt of court

Abela v Fakih [2017] EWHC 269 (Ch): acting for the successful applicant in what is believed to be the first reported judgment concerning the Court’s jurisdiction to grant a search order against a third party

The enforcement of Russian judgments totalling c. £150m against a judgment debtor

Goldcrest v McCole [2016] EWHC 1571 (Ch): obtaining judgment in default on the defendant’s counterclaim and the dismissal of the claimant’s claim against her in relation to the enforcement of a charge over property

Representing a prestigious Liechtenstein-based trust, which is heavily involved in the art world, in relation to a multijurisdictional dispute with a Dubai based art collector

Procter & Gamble v Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA [2012] EWHC 498 (Ch): representing P&G in a substantial dispute concerning unpaid invoices arising out of transitional manufacturing arrangements following the sale of a business

Procter & Gamble v Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA [2012] EWCA Civ 1413: advising on a dispute concerning payments due under an asset sale agreement in respect of early retirement pension benefits passing under TUPE

In the matter of ESO Capital Luxembourg Holdings II S.a.r.l (FSD No: 77 of 2011-AJJ): acting in a €50m+ cross-border dispute arising out of the refinancing of a property construction and development project in the French West Indies, including defending injunction proceedings seeking to prevent the issue of a winding-up petition

Education