Jennifer Leigh Radford

Jennifer Radford is a founding partner of Tereposky & DeRose. With a career history in civil litigation and advocacy, Jennifer heads up the firm’s Investor State Dispute Settlement practice group. The practice group has acted as co-counsel with the Secretariat of Economy representing Mexico in 36 investor state arbitrations in the last five years alone regularly defending claims in excess of a billion dollars (USD) in damages. Jennifer has experience in handling all aspects of these claims through all stages of the arbitral process (provisional measures, jurisdictional objections, merits, and damages) involving a wide range of industry sectors including telecommunication services (both cellular and satellite), mining, casinos, and hotels and tourism. She is well versed in the substantive issues involving these claims, including the prerequisites to accessing arbitration, MFN, FET, exhaustion of local remedies, denial of justice, expropriation, full protection and security, investors’ exercise of due diligence, contributory fault, and the proper valuation of recoverable damages (if any). In addition, Jennifer has significant experience bringing and defending judicial review applications to set-aside arbitral awards before Canadian Courts.

Jennifer also acts as counsel for foreign States and business on both sides of the enforcement of arbitral awards in the Canadian jurisdiction. This is complemented with her significant experience in the representation of foreign States and Embassies carrying out diplomatic missions in Canada, acting as counsel in precedent setting court cases involving complex state and diplomatic immunity issues, as well as assisting in official diplomatic communications with the Government of Canada regarding a wide range of diplomatic relationship issues.