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Jason Rix

Knowledge Counsel

Jason has advised on a variety of commercial litigation topics including AI liability, conflict of laws, contract law, data protection, digital assets, group litigation, privilege and state immunity.

A while back now, Jason was seconded to BT. This experience still serves as a vivid reminder of what it is like in-house. 
 
He has participated in several working committees of the Financial Markets Law Committee covering a variety of topics: "Distributed Ledger Technology and Governing Law: Issues of Legal Uncertainty" (2018), "Response: Law Commission Call for Evidence on Digital Assets" (2021) and "Duties of Good Faith in Wholesale Financial Contracts" (2022), Private Law Issues and AI (ongoing). 
 
In 2016, he set up Compact Contract which has become A&O Shearman on contract law.

Expertise

Industries

Experience

Pro bono

  • GROW mentor.

Published Work

  • Rix J (2019) “Discretion is the better part of valour”, Commercial Litigation Journal, Co. L.J. 2019, 83(Jan/Feb), 11-13

Qualifications

Admissions

Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 2001

Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings)

Academic

BA Law, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, 1997

MA, Law, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, 2001

LPC, 1998

Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.