Jennifer Haywood


Year of Call: 2001

“Second to none: she combines high-level strategic advice and lateral thinking with an attention to detail and client service that has made her our go-to counsel this year.”

Chambers and Partners
Portrait of Jennifer Haywood

Practice Overview

Having practised as a commercial-chancery barrister for over 20 years, Jennifer practises ADR as a neutral, helping parties to resolve their disputes by acting as an arbitrator, mediator or conducting binding or non-binding evaluations and private FDR’s.

Jennifer’s experience as an arbitrator includes disputes involving partnerships, pharmaceuticals, companies, media contracts and finance agreements. She has been appointed to many of the major arbitral institution lists, including those of BVI IAC, HKIAC, AIAC and DIAC. She is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.  She has acted as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and presiding arbitrator.

Her experience as a mediator includes both commercial and private client disputes, reflecting her experience as counsel and her recognised client handling skills and commercial approach.  She has particular experience of difficult partnership/JV disputes but she has also mediated company, commercial, property, wills and trusts disputes.  She is experienced at remote mediations as well as in person mediations and has also conducted mediations with multiple parties.  She is recommended as a mediator by Legal 500.

Jennifer is able to draw on both her experience as a commercial chancery barrister and her medical science background. Her practice as a barrister has covered the breadth of commercial chancery practice, including litigation, drafting and advisory work, with a strong emphasis on disputes involving breach of fiduciary duty, company, partnership, trusts and probate and fraud.

Particularly well-regarded for her commercial outlook and client interaction, Jennifer is praised by The Legal 500 as being “exceptionally user-friendly, easy work with and a great team player,” and Chambers and Partners says “she attracts particular praise for her excellent, candid and common sense-based client service.”  She has been ranked in Tier 1 for Partnership work.

News & Events

  • News

    Jennifer Haywood has recently joined the new Abu Dhabi International Arbitration Centre’s list of arbitrators

    Serle Court is delighted to announce that Jennifer Haywood has recently joined the new Abu Dhabi International Arbitration Centre&rsquo... Read More

    News

    Serle Court publishes its 32nd edition of serlespeak

    Our latest issue of serlespeak focuses on Arbitration. In this issue, our barristers explore key cases and developments... Read More

  • Events

    Chancery Bar Association: Geneva Conference

    Location: Novotel Genève Centre
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    Events

    Women in Chancery: Supper Club at Serle Court

    Location: Serle Court, 6 New Square, Lincolns Inn, London, WC2A 3QS
    Read More

  • Combines high-level strategic advice and lateral thinking with an attention to detail that is unsurpassed.” “Intelligent, responsive and commercially bright.”

    Chambers and Partners
  • “Exceptionally user-friendly, easy to work with and a great team player.”

    The Legal 500

Education & Qualifications

Christ’s College, Cambridge - MA (Natural Sciences), MB BCh
City University - Postgraduate Diploma in Law (CPE)
Megarry Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn

Memberships

Chancery Bar Association
Commercial Bar Association
Association of Partnership Practitioners ACTAPS (associate member)
BVI International Arbitration Centre Panel
Court of Arbitration for Art
KCAB Panel of International Arbitrators
Cayman Arbitration Centre
Dubai International Arbitration Centre
Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre
NAI Art Arbitration Centre
WIPO
The Abu Dhabi International Arbitration Centre 

BSB Registration

Dr Jennifer Margaret Haywood

VAT Number

799381558

In the Press

'Estate planning: Liability matters', New Law Journal, 24 September 2020

News & Events

  • News

    Jennifer Haywood has recently joined the new Abu Dhabi International Arbitration Centre’s list of arbitrators

    Serle Court is delighted to announce that Jennifer Haywood has recently joined the new Abu Dhabi International Arbitration Centre&rsquo... Read More

    News

    Serle Court publishes its 32nd edition of serlespeak

    Our latest issue of serlespeak focuses on Arbitration. In this issue, our barristers explore key cases and developments... Read More

  • Events

    Women in Chancery: Supper Club at Serle Court

    Location: Serle Court, 6 New Square, Lincolns Inn, London, WC2A 3QS Read More

    Events

    Jennifer Haywood to attend the ICC Annual Arbitration and ADR Conference 2023

    Location: Fieldfisher, Riverbank House, 2 Swan Lane, London, EC4R 3TT & Online Read More