Jade Flint
Partner | Nottingham
"Understands client’s needs well, can turn work around in short notice whilst remaining thorough, progresses cases well and is a good sounding board when assisting with problematic situations. Always provides options."
Rob Wilmshurst, CEO Vivendi Ticketing, See Tickets & Digitick
Call: 0345 050 3698 Mobile: 0797 690 7239
About Jade
Jade Flint is a Partner in Freeths’ Dispute Resolution team, advising clients on complex, high-value and reputation-sensitive commercial disputes. She is known for her work on significant, multi-layered matters where commercial pressure, legal complexity and stakeholder scrutiny need to be managed together.
Her role in the Bates v Post Office litigation and related redress schemes has given her first-hand experience of disputes involving exceptional scale, complexity and public scrutiny. It informs her ability to see how unresolved issues, governance failures and competing narratives can escalate into major legal, financial and reputational exposure.
Jade is also listed as a Recommended Lawyer and recognised as a Next Generation Partner in the Legal 500 (2027 edition).
Helping organisations manage risk early
Jade helps clients get control of disputes early, particularly where facts are contested, documentation is extensive and the commercial position is still developing. She brings a litigator’s perspective to risk management, helping organisations understand not only what has happened, but how the issue may be tested if it becomes a formal claim.
Clients value her pragmatic and detail-focused approach, particularly in complex situations involving multiple stakeholders, significant documentation and heightened scrutiny. She is often trusted on matters where there are competing narratives and issues are evolving quickly.
Her work helps organisations:
Identify and assess emerging risks
Manage and contain issues as they develop
Resolve disputes efficiently and avoid unnecessary delay
She also draws on insights from Freeths’ Corporate Conscience Index to help her clients understand how governance, culture and decision-making can contribute to risk over time.
A practical, outcome-focused approach
Jade is calm, clear and strategic in high-pressure disputes. She helps clients assess the strength of their position, make sense of complex evidence and choose the right route to resolution, whether that means negotiation, mediation, formal proceedings or a combination of approaches.
Her experience includes advising organisations on high-profile and multi-layered disputes involving business sales, financial services, professional negligence, brand protection and business-critical operations. These matters often require careful judgment, disciplined case strategy and close management of legal, commercial and reputational risk.
She has particular experience in using mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution to achieve cost-effective outcomes and resolve disputes before they reach trial.
Areas of expertise
Complex commercial and contractual disputes, including those arising from business sales and transactions
Professional negligence and insurance-related matters
Financial services and sector-specific disputes
Reputation-sensitive disputes, including brand protection and business-critical operations
Dispute avoidance and risk management
Contact Jade
Call: 0345 050 3698
Mobile: 0797 690 7239
Notable work
Recent Work
- Acting for Sub Postmasters and other witnesses in connection with the GLO Compensation scheme and the highly publicised Post Office Inquiry
- Acted for the Liquidators of a private company offering NHS services, which settled at mediation
- Acting for a national retailer in various disputes to protect the brand’s reputation and commercial activities
- Instructed Joanna Smith QC (now the Honourable Mrs Justice Joanna Smith) and successfully defended a breach of warranty claim brought by a group of companies, such claim being for in excess if £10million. The trial was one of the first trials to be heard remotely (April 2020) following the Covid-19 pandemic
- Acting for Defendants in connection with a multi-million pound claim; arising out of indemnities provided in respect of the sale of a financial services business.
- Acting for an international ticketing services company, in connection with a variety of different contractual disputes.
- Acting for the Defendant in proceedings brought seeking an injunction in respect of third party documents. Jade’s client successfully resisted the injunction.
- Acted for a business owner defending a claim for breach of contract arising out of a business sale agreement. The matter settled shortly after mediation and prior to trial.
- Acted for an international aerospace company in connection with a dispute arising out of a recruitment contract. The matter settled on terms favourable to Jade’s client.
- Acted for a majority shareholder in connection with an injunction seeking return of shares said to be held on trust. The matter was heard before HHJ Purle QC and resulted in a successful outcome for Jade’s client.
- Represented the Claimant in connection with a claim for breach of software licensing and development agreement. The Claimant sought damages of £65 million. The matter concluded by way of 17 day trial – Matchbet Ltd v Openbet Retail Ltd [2013] EWHC 3067 (Ch).
Recent Work
- Pursued a claim against firm of solicitors for £10 million resulting in a positive settlement for the clients
- Acted for a Claimant in connection with a professional negligence claim against accountants. The matter settled at mediation shortly before trial.
- Acted in a $4 million professional negligence claim against solicitors who drafted a share purchase agreement which did not comply with the whitewash procedure under s151 of the Companies Act 1985 and was therefore unenforceable. The dispute proceeded to a four day trial.
- Acted in a £1.2 million professional negligence claim, arising out of a failure to advise on a share acquisition. The claim settled at mediation shortly before a 10 day trial.
- Acting for the Claimants in connection with a professional negligence claim against accountants, with damages claimed in excess of £1 million.
Jade has well-rounded experience dealing with the processes involved with contentious insolvency matters; specifically in advising Insolvency Practitioners concerned with the administration and liquidation of companies.
Recent Work
- Acting for liquidators in connection with claims against directors, arising out of the sale of a company’s assets shortly before entering liquidation.
- Acting for the administrators of a company which provided out of hours healthcare services in connection with various matters arising out of the company’s administration.
- Acting for directors in connection with claims brought by liquidators arising out of a directors’ loan account.
- Acted for one of the UK’s leading care home providers, in connection with an appeal in respect of a chairman’s decision made at a creditors’ meeting.
- Acted for liquidators in connection with claims against a director, pursuant to various provisions of the Insolvency Act 1986 pertaining to sums taken from the company by the director. The matter culminated in a three day trial and resulted in a successful outcome for Jade’s client.
- Acted for a German distiller in connection with an application to remove a liquidator from office.
She has also supported clients operating in food-related environmental and regulatory sectors, including:
Advising businesses involved in specialist processes such as gas scrubbing to meet DEFRA and Environment Agency standards.
Extensive relationship with clients working in food disposal, including disputes relating to the categorisation of food waste and the operation of anaerobic digestion plants
Representing businesses in the food and beverage packaging sector
Acting in connection with claims arising out of the contamination of products for human consumption
Acting for a retailer in connection with the purchase of confectionary for onward sale to the public
Testimonials
RW
"Jade possesses an unparalleled ability to understand what is important to a business and to tailor an appropriate legal approach that takes this i...
Rob Wilmshurst, CEO Vivendi Ticketing
See Tickets & Digitick
"Jade Flint is excellent at dealing with matters in a practical, proactive way. She responds to instructions in a timely fashion and is great at ge...
The Legal 500, 2026
"Jade Flint is the standout member of this team; she works tirelessly for her clients and absorbs a significant amount of information quickly, befo...
The Legal 500, 2026
"Jade Flint offers a commercial, efficient and knowledgeable service and has a good network of contacts."
The Legal 500, 2025
"Jade Flint is the main point of contact - her experience across the sector means her ability to provide considered advice without delay is invalua...
The Legal 500, 2025
"Jade Flint has always been the standout member of this team. Jade is able to take on a huge amount of work as she is very focused and organised."
The Legal 500, 2024
"Jade Flint is an exceptional lawyer and is extremely busy with a high level of new business, which evidences her ability to acquire new work and m...
The Legal 500, 2022
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