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Jenny Morrissey

Partner

E: jmorrissey@harcusparker.co.uk

Jenny is one of the founding partners of Harcus Parker. She is a commercial litigator focusing on financial services litigation, insolvency disputes, and securities actions. She represents private and corporate clients, including international and domestic investment managers and advisers. Jenny has extensive experience arranging litigation funding and ATE insurance to facilitate access to justice. Her practice combines High Court litigation and arbitration.

Legal Expertise
Jenny is regularly instructed in complex disputes involving financial services and corporate insolvency. She has acted in a range of high-profile group actions and shareholder claims, as well as disputes involving investment managers and fund liquidators.

Notable cases include:

  • Core VCT plc and others v Soho Square Capital LLP and others: Acting for three venture capital trust funds in claims concerning alleged conflicts of interest and conduct by former managers and liquidators.
  • Kwok Ho Wan and others v UBS AG: Representing claimant investment companies in a dispute involving alleged negligent advice and misstatements related to the leveraged acquisition of securities on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
  • The Intelligent Energy Shareholder Group Action: Acting for institutional investors in prospectus liability and misrepresentation claims against a former AIM-listed company.
  • The Home REIT Shareholder Group Action: Representing private and institutional investors in claims against Home REIT and its former directors and advisers.
  • Sharp and others v Blank and others: Acting for claimant shareholders in claims related to the Lloyds TSB acquisition of HBOS and alleged breaches of fiduciary duty.
  • Acting for a leading litigation funder in an LCIA arbitration on recovery under litigation funding agreements.

Accreditations / Membership
Jenny is an advisory member of the Law Society’s Dispute Resolution Committee and regularly contributes to industry policy discussions. She sits on the Therium Access Advisory Committee and is a member of the London Solicitors Litigation Association (LSLA) and ConTrA.

Industry Recognition
Jenny is ranked by Chambers UK for Commercial Litigation and described as “a highly resourceful and focused lawyer with impressive attention to detail.”

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