Kate JACKSON-MCGILL KC

Kate Jackson-McGill KC is head of Skadden’s Europe International Litigation and Arbitration Group. Her practice focuses on complex, cross-border litigation and commercial and investment treaty arbitration (ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, SIAC, LMAA, ICSID, PCA), with extensive experience in arbitrations seated in and under the governing laws of both common and civil law jurisdictions, as well as public international law. She also regularly acts for clients before the English court and in offshore litigation.

Ms. Jackson-McGill represents clients at all stages of international and cross-border disputes. She has particular experience in solving complex, multijurisdictional and multifaceted disputes where all stages of litigation and/or arbitration (from interim relief to trial and final award/judgment) are just one of a number of tools deployed to achieve her client’s objectives. Her experience spans sectors, including crypto, technology, energy, telecommunications, mining, pharmaceutical, automotive and construction. She also sits as arbitrator on single- and three-member tribunals.

Ms. Jackson-McGill recently served as secretary to the International Bar Association’s Arbitration Committee and on the ICC Task Force considering dispute resolution in the context of climate change and the Paris Agreement, and is a former member of the ICC U.K. Appointments Committee. She also sits on the Executive Committee of the Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy and was co-chair of the 2022 Institute for Transnational Arbitration Workshop. She is a former YIAG (LCIA) co-chair.

In recognition of her work, Ms. Jackson-McGill was named Woman Litigator of the Year at Benchmark Litigation’s 2025 Europe Awards. She was also honored as Best Lawyers’ 2024 London International Arbitration Lawyer of the Year. She has been repeatedly recognized by Chambers Global and Chambers UK, in which clients have described her as “absolutely phenomenal” and “a comprehensive lawyer” who “gets every aspect of the case.” She also has been named a Global Leader in Lexology Index (formerly Whos’ Who Legal) Arbitration, recognized in The Legal 500 for International Arbitration and Public International Law and ranked in The Legal 500’s U.K. Private Practice Arbitration Powerlist and U.K. International Arbitration Powerlist. Additionally, she has been named one of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Global Litigators.