John Reynolds

Practice Areas

John has helped clients resolve complex problems for more than three decades and is a deeply connected member of the global dispute resolution community. As a leading figure in the legal world, he has been involved in many of the landmark cases that have shaped the litigation landscape.

Over the years, John has maintained a broad practice, believing that diverse experience brings benefits in looking at most problems. His specialist areas of focus include corporate and M&A disputes, finance litigation, shareholder disputes, investigations, crisis management, fraud and competition litigation.

Career

John Reynolds is a leading international litigation and arbitration specialist. In his 35-year career, he spent over 15 years at White & Case as Head of the London Litigation Department and Global Co-Head of the firm’s Financial Institutions Practice, and he was also a partner at McDermott Will & Emery and Herbert Smith.

Experience

• Advising a corporation in one of the largest IPOs of all time, on a range of issues that had potential impact.

• Advising a global consumer brand on strategic considerations affecting the potential termination of a long-term regional joint venture.

• Advising an international financial institution with a complex structure on governance changes to address regulatory requirements, as well as potential legal challenges to the regulators.

• Providing strategic oversight to a prominent Gulf family on litigation in the London courts, being conducted by another firm.

• Advised on a 13-year battle for control of a Turkish mobile telephone operator arising from financing and restructuring during the Turkish banking crisis.

• Investigated transatlantic regulatory enforcement proceeding against a global investment bank, involving anti-money laundering systems and controls.

• Represented a major UK case in suing the UK Government in respect of its nationalization of Northern Rock Bank following the first UK bank run for 150 years.

• Represented litigation case in London and Luxembourg and arbitration in Vienna concerning the ownership of a strategically important former State-owned company.