• Kit Jarvis
• Partner, London
• Field Fisher Waterhouse
• kit.jarvis@ffw.com
• work +44 (0)20 7861 4000

Kit has broad commercial dispute resolution experience, often in cases with a significant international and cross-border element. He specialises in disputes and investigations involving aspects of banking and finance, insolvency and fraud & asset tracing.

A leading directory, The Legal 500 says in its 2011 edition that Kit "brims with enthusiasm and is full of ideas", is "knowledgeable and enthusiastic", "quick thinking" and has "great client manner".

Kit’s experience includes injunctions (including anti-suit injunctions, freezing injunctions and injunctions to prevent breach of contract), major disclosure exercises, and supervision of litigation in numerous international jurisdictions. Kit has advised in respect of several high-profile insolvencies and he has been seconded to the Global Dispute Resolution Group at a major international bank.

Kit has experience across a wide range of sectors, but his particular focus is on financial institutions.

Kit’s recent experience includes:

• The co-promoter of Jersey-based collective investment funds with substantial property investments in Bulgaria, Croatia and Montenegro in respect of applications by the Jersey Financial Services Commission to wind up the funds
• The private office of a prominent Russian on potential claims arising out of the termination of an investment management agreement with the BVI-based investment management arm of a leading Russian bank
• A hedge fund and its principal in respect of a dispute with a second hedge fund relating to partnership issues and ownership of IP
• JSC Astana Finance, a Kazakh entity in restructuring, in relation to substantial claims in an LCIA arbitration against Barclays Bank Plc arising out of a credit contingent swap that was supposed to hedge exchange and interest rate risk on a UK-listed EMTN note programme
• Various companies in the Pioneer group based in the BVI and China in respect of guarantees given to support freight futures contracts for iron and steel, and in respect of insolvency issues in the BVI, Hong Kong and England
• A leading global insulation company in respect of breach of confidence issues arising out of the recruitment of a senior employee alleged to have disclosed confidential information belonging to his previous employer. The case has involved issues in England, Australia, Germany and Bahrain
• A major CIS oil and gas company in respect of arbitration proceedings relating to Quality Bank Payments (which reflect differing qualities of oil put into and taken out of an oil pipeline by users of the pipeline)
• A major CIS oil and gas company in respect of potential Energy Charter and ICSID arbitration proceedings against another CIS state concerning the expropriation of a gas transportation and distribution business
• Plymouth Argyle Football Club in respect of winding up petitions presented by HMRC
• The Administrators of E-Clear in respect of claims arising from the failure of E-Clear
• A US-based seller of helicopters in respect of freezing injunctions in support of New York proceedings against a Nigerian-based customer
• A Bermuda-based fund in respect of claims in the administration of Lehman Brothers arising out of Repurchase Agreements and Autocallable Swaps
• A freight forwarding company in respect of a fraud perpetrated against it by its former Finance Director, including obtaining a freezing injunction and claims against the auditors
• A wholesale plumbing business in respect of the diversion of business by former directors.

Kit has written numerous articles in Company Lawyer (on Fiduciary duties and regulatory rules), and in The Lawyer (on the rules relating to accessing materials at court), the Journal of International Banking and Finance (on hedge fund fraud and the potential liabilities of prime brokers, on hedge fund side letters, and on cross border privilege issues). Kit is also the co-author of the second edition of “Commercial Enforcement”, the leading textbook on methods of enforcement of civil judgments, Tottel Publishing 2008, a subject on which he has contributed to webcasts. Kit is a regular speaker at seminars and workshops on banking and finance matters.

Kit speaks English and French (working knowledge).