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Janet Tobin

Janet Tobin Legal Director

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	Telephone : +44 20 3321 7419
	Email : janet.tobin@mishcon.com

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Janet is a Legal Director in Mishcon Private. Her practice centres on commercial disputes for successful entrepreneurs and owner-managed businesses. These claims are complex, high value, usually multi-jurisdictional and often include allegations of fraud. Janet has in-depth experience of director/shareholder claims, partnership disputes, trust and succession issues and large-scale contract disputes across a wide range of sectors. Her clients are generally high profile and/or high net worth individuals, corporations, families or family offices.

Janet is a member of the London Solicitors Litigation Association.

Key Experience

Acting for various members of the Dellal family in a significant, high profile family dispute brought under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 (Dellal v Dellal and Others [2015] EWHC 907 (Fam)).
Acting for the BVI entity Marsfield in a £50million restitution claim arising out of a failed joint venture with Ecomotive to develop Range Extended Electric Vehicle trucks and buses for sale in Russia and China. (Marsfield Automotive Inc v Kamal Siddiqi[2017] EWHC 187 (Comm))
Representing private individuals in a multi-jurisdictional shareholder dispute over a Cayman investment fund which involved the setting aside of a worldwide freezing order and proprietary injunction, in part on the basis that the claims were likely to be barred by the "no reflective loss" principle (Sukhoruchkin v Van Bekestein [2014] EWCA Civ 399)
Acting for a major shareholder in a significant shareholder dispute relating to the SPV for the construction of one of the most iconic buildings on the London skyline.
Advising a substantial private equity limited partnership in regards to a partnership dispute relating to the operation of its carried interest scheme.
Acting for a successful family property development partnership, to settle a long-running dispute between the partners.
Acting for a high net worth individual in a negligence claim against a French bank relating to the dematerialisation of share certificates.
Acting for number of clients in both presenting and defending minority shareholder petitions.
Advising individuals with regards to alleged breaches of director duties.
Acting for a substantial high net worth family in relation to a number of disputes, including a major fraud claim against a former senior employee, leading to the obtaining of a Civil Restraint Order.

Career History

Legal Director, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Managing Associate, Mishcon de Reya LLP
Senior Counsel, Taylor Wessing LLP
Associate, Taylor Wessing LLP
Solicitor, Lyons Davidson LLP