Jonathan Dawid

Jonathan Dawid has a broad-based commercial practice with a particular focus on  banking/financial services and professional negligence, frequently with an international element.

Recent banking highlights include:

• representing the Independent Valuer of Northern Rock plc in Harbinger Capital Partners v Andrew Caldwell (Upper Tribunal, with Mark Howard QC);
• acting for property investment fund Atrium European Real Estate Ltd in a $2 billion claim fraud against the Austrian investment bank Meinl Bank and its chairman, Julius Meinl V (with Mark Hapgood QC and Tom Beazley QC);
• advising hedge fund GLG Partners regarding the recovery of $500 million in client money transferred to Lehman Bros (with David Vaughan QC);
• acting for monoline insurer MBIA in a multibillion dollar swap dispute with RBS regarding the interpretation of standard ISDA terms (with Jonathan Sumption QC);
• appearing before the Supreme Court (with Mark Howard QC) in the Sigma case regarding the division of assets of the world's largest structured investment vehicle ([2009] UKSC 2).

Current banking instructions include defending Bank of New York in various investment management claims arising out of the  collapse of Lehman Bros and acting for UBS in relation to various disputed ISDA swaps.

Jonathan is also regularly instructed by leading accountant firms in the UK and overseas on audit, tax and other matters, including advising Ernst & Young in its recent $1bn audit negligence claim brought by the liquidators of Akai Holdings (led by Mark Hapgood QC). He is currently acting for Deloitte LLP in its defence of a tax negligence claim brought by the former manager of the pop group Suede.

In practice since 2006, Jonathan Dawid is ranked in the Banking & Finance and Professional Negligence areas in the 2012 edition of Chambers & Partners and is described by the Legal 500 as a "seriously bright, commercial and likeable junior". He was named as a  'future star of the bar" by Legal Week in 2009.