Jack Davies is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s London office. He joined the firm in 2023. His practice focuses on international arbitration and complex commercial litigation. Jack was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 2017.
Jack is a graduate of the University of Auckland Law School, where he graduated second in his cohort, Senior Scholar in Law. He also holds a Master of Laws from the New York University School of Law, which he attended as a Fulbright Scholar and where he specialized in international business regulation, litigation and arbitration. He graduated in 2020 at the top of his specialization.
After graduating from law school, Jack served as clerk to Dame Helen Winkelmann, now the Chief Justice of New Zealand. He practiced commercial litigation at one of New Zealand’s leading full-service law firms, before moving to London to specialize in international arbitration and English High Court litigation. Jack has represented clients in numerous institutional and ad hoc arbitrations, under a variety of arbitral rules. He has particular experience of arbitration and litigation concerning the financial services, pharmaceutical, energy and banking sectors.
Jack currently serves as a Delegate for New Zealand to the International Chamber of Commerce’s Commission on Arbitration and ADR. He has previously taught law at the University of Auckland and Victoria University of Wellington.
- New York University, School of Law
(LL.M., International Business Regulation, Litigation and Arbitration, 2020) - University of Auckland
(LL.B. (Hons.), 2017)
(B.A., Political Studies and International Relations, 2017)
- Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand (Practicing under the direct supervision of a member of The Bar of England and Wales)
- Jack Davies “The Inherent Powers of International Arbitral Tribunals to Exclude Party-Appointed Experts” (2020) 23 Int’l Arb L Rev 298.
- Jack Davies “New Developments in Settlor Reserved Powers” (2018) 82 Conv 171.
- Jack Davies and Jack Alexander “Appeals on Mixed Questions under the Arbitration Act 1996” [2018] NZLJ 27 (cited by the New Zealand High Court in Whangarei Industrial Park Ltd v Whangarei District Council [2018] NZHC 805 at [8]).
- Jack Davies “HIV and New Zealand’s Criminal Law” [2018] NZLJ 40.
- Jack Davies “Once More unto the Breach [of a Trust]: An Analysis of the Academic Battle over Available Remedies for a Misapplication of Trust Funds” (2017) 23 Auckland U L Rev 171.
- Jack Davies “Are the Floodgates Open? A Brief Analysis of the Supreme Court’s Decision in Clayton v Clayton [Vaughan Road Property Trust]” (2016) 22 Auckland U L Rev 383.