Jonathan has a broad practice, including heavy-duty commercial litigation, arbitration, and competition cases before the Competition Appeals Tribunal and the Courts. He has considerable experience of working on big cases, in big teams, with a leader (or leaders); but is equally happy acting as sole counsel. Jonathan’s more recent commercial work has had a particular focus on banking, energy and professional negligence, but he is interested in, and will happily accept instructions in, all types of commercial disputes, as well as competition matters.
Jonathan has a broad practice, including heavy-duty commercial litigation, arbitration, and competition cases before the Competition Appeals Tribunal and the Courts. He has considerable experience of working on big cases, in big teams, with a leader (or leaders); but is equally happy acting as sole counsel. Jonathan’s more recent commercial work has had a particular focus on banking, energy and professional negligence, but he is interested in, and will happily accept instructions in, all types of commercial disputes, as well as competition matters.
Highlights of Jonathan’s current and recent instructions include:
Before coming to the Bar, Jonathan worked for two years at an asset management firm, specialising in currency risk hedging. Jonathan was part of a team responsible for analysing and improving the firm’s currency derivative investment strategies, and also co-authored a book chapter on emerging market currency investing.
Jonathan graduated from the University of Oxford in 2012, with first class honours in philosophy, politics and economics. He later converted to law, and was awarded the Ann Ebsworth Award, the Birkenhead Award and the Atkin Scholarship by the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn.
Jonathan has a broad commercial practice in which heavy duty litigation before the English courts features prominently. His current and recent commercial litigation instructions include, among others, the following:
Jonathan has also assisted in a series of offshore ‘appraisal rights’ cases in the Cayman Islands (under section 238 Companies Law) and Bermuda (under section 106 of the Companies Act). These include:
In addition to his litigation practice, Jonathan also has significant experience in commercial arbitrations. Highlights of his arbitration work are the following, each of which went all the way to a final hearing and involved significant technical and foreign-law expert evidence:
Jonathan is currently instructed in two major competition law matters:
Corominas and Scott, “Investing in Emerging Market Currencies: A Rewarded Risk,” in Pojarliev and Levich (eds.), “The Role of Currency in Institutional Portfolios” (2014).
Professional Experience:
2017: Called to the Bar of England and Wales
2012 – 2014: Investment Strategy Analyst, Record Currency Management
Education:
2016 – 2017: BPTC, City Law School (Outstanding, top of year)
2015 – 2016: GDL, City Law School (Distinction)
2009 – 2012: MA, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford (Balliol College) (First Class)
Scholarships and Prizes:
The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn
Lord Atkin Senior Scholarship for Pupillage (2018)
Birkenhead Award for the BPTC (2017)
Ann Ebsworth Award for the GDL (2016)
City Law School
Senior Scarman Scholarship for best overall mark on the BPTC (2017)
Balliol College, Oxford
NT Huxley Scholarship (2010 – 2012)
Mooting
Finalist, City University Senior Moot (2017)
Winner, City University GDL Moot (2016)
Quarter-finalist team and highest individual speaker score, ELSA European Human Rights Moot Court Competition (2016)