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Dr. Jan Alessandrini

Withersworldwide
Jan is an Associate in Withers' Litigation and Arbitration team and is currently based in the firm's BVI office (having previously been based in London). He is dual qualified (England & Wales and BVI). His practice focuses on commercial litigation, commercial and investment-treaty arbitration, (contentious) insolvency as well as art law and public international law.  

Recent case highlights include representing a beneficiary in a trust dispute, representing two companies in a shareholder dispute in the Court of Appeal; acting for the applicant in a first-of-its-kind BVI High Court challenge of a Company Creditor Arrangement ('CCA'); acting for a large creditor of Dolfin Financial (UK) Ltd in Special Administration; representing the applicant in an application for special leave to appeal in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; acting for a government in a commission of inquiry. As a solicitor advocate, he may appear in the BVI High Court and Court of Appeal.

Jan holds a BA and PhD from University College London, and an MSt from the University of Oxford (St Edmund Hall). Drawing on his post-doctoral research and experience at the University of St Andrews, Oxford (St Peter's), and Commission for Looted Art in Europe where he predominantly dealt with the restitution of Nazi-looted cultural property, Jan advises on diverse art law litigation, including title disputes, restitution, fraud, and especially on the recovery of stolen and looted items of art and cultural property.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 2021

Experience

  • DAC Beachcroft (2018 - 2021)

Membership

  • British Italian Law Association (BILA)
  • Associazione Italiana per l'Arbitrato - Below 40 (AIA ArbIt-40)
  • Recovery and Insolvency Specialists Association (RISA)
  • Art Lawyers Association (ALA)
  • Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG)

Qualifications

  • PhD (2013)
  • MSt (2006)
  • BA (2005)

Education

  • UCL (2005; 2013)
  • Oxon (2006)
  • BPP (2019)

1 Contributions by Jan Alessandrini

Arbitration in the British Virgin Islands: Legislation, Court Assistance, Confidentiality, Enforcement (New York Convention/ICSID), Interim Relief, Insolvency, State Immunity and the BVI International Arbitration Centre
PRACTICE NOTES
Arbitration in the British Virgin Islands: Legislation, Court Assistance, Confidentiality, Enforcement (New York Convention/ICSID), Interim Relief, Insolvency, State Immunity and the BVI International Arbitration Centre
Introduction This Practice Note aims to present a succinct outline of the arbitration environment in the Territory of the Virgin Islands (the ‘BVI’). For background purposes, the BVI is a British Overseas Territory. It possesses its own constitution (the Virgin Islands Constitution Order 2007, which superseded the Virgin Islands Constitution Order 1976), its own legislature, which is responsible for enacting laws, and its own distinct system of government. UK law forms part of BVI law where it is expressly received into local law or where it constitutes an element of the common law (Common Law Declaration of Application Act (Cap 13), section 2). Note: the cases mentioned below are reported by LexisNexis® The legislative framework The BVI’s first arbitration statute was the Arbitration Act 1976 (the ‘1976 Act’). The 1976 Act was not amended or updated following its original enactment and remained comparatively narrow in scope and detail overall...
Arbitration
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