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.
His commercial litigation practice covers all types of contractual disputes, including claims relating to agency, guarantees, banking, partnership, breaches of trust and fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment and asset tracing. His company law practice covers directors’ duties and remedies for maladministration, director disqualification, shareholder disputes, derivative claims and shareholder agreements, while in his insolvency practice, covering administrations, receiverships, liquidations, bankruptcy and voluntary arrangements, he has extensive experience in cases involving preferences and undervalue transactions, fraudulent and wrongful trading, misfeasance and breach of duty.
His reported cases include the high-profile administration of the Christmas hamper savings club Farepak Food & Gifts Limited, the 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.
He was appointed Junior Counsel to the Crown from 1999 to 2009 and was instructed throughout that period by a wide range of government departments including the Department of Trade & Industry, HM Revenue & Customs and the Ministry of Justice, and by the Treasury Solicitor and Official Receiver.
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 (now part of Deutsche Bank) 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” and as “a suitably forceful barrister and quick on his feet“, he is said to be“excellent – 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”.
Commercial Litigation
Company & Partnership
Insolvency
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Oct 2024
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Leading Set in Legal 500 UK Bar Guide 2025
14 Oct 2024New Square Chambers – Leading Set in Legal 500’s UK Bar Guide 2025 We are pleased to share that New Square Chambers have once again been recognised as a leading set in the Legal 500 Bar 2025. New Square Chambers now has 57 individual rankings across 15 practice areas including the London Bar, Western Circuit, […]
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Feb 2024
NSC Hollington Conference 2024
February 21, 2024 / 2:00 pmWe are delighted to present our annual Hollington Conference for 2024, which will be held at Arundel House in London on Wednesday, 21st February, from 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm. The conference will be followed by a drinks reception and the official book launch of the 10th edition of Hollington on Shareholders’ Rights. Tickets now […]