Practice Overview
Jonathan is a highly experienced and sought-after commercial chancery barrister with a litigation and advisory practice focused primarily on insolvency, company and commercial law, areas in which he has gained a very strong reputation.
His many reported cases include the high-profile administration of the Christmas hamper savings club Farepak Food & Gifts Limited and liquidation of the largest Greek mobile telephone operator Hellas II Telecommunications (Luxembourg) II SCA, and the important landmark Court of Appeal decisions in JCAM Commercial Real Estate Property XV Limited v Davis Haulage Limited, St Poulton’s Trustee v Ministry of Justice and Imageview Management Limited v Jack.
From 1999 to 2009 he was appointed Junior Counsel to the Crown by the Attorney-General and was instructed throughout that period on behalf of a wide range of government departments including the Department of Trade & Industry and HM Revenue & Customs.
Prior to commencing practice at the Bar, Jonathan worked for six years in high-level corporate finance, first as a corporate finance executive at the leading UK merchant bank Morgan Grenfell and subsequently as a corporate finance executive at Olympia & York, then the world’s largest private commercial property developer whose projects included Canary Wharf in London, Battery Park City in New York and First Canadian Place in Toronto.
Chambers UK Bar and Legal 500 have recommended Jonathan for many years in the commercial chancery and insolvency practice areas. Described as “a master of detail, and a focused and ferocious cross-examiner”, he is said to be“excellent – he’s very thorough and gets on top of difficult issues quickly”, is "admired by market sources as he is highly technically skilled”, is “a highly commercial junior”, a “good, forceful litigator”, and a “tenacious and clear and compelling advocate”, who is “extremely approachable and user-friendly”.