Avocats – England

Jonathan Day

Jonathan is dual-qualified as a solicitor and trademark attorney. His background in brand protection enforcement and management coupled with IP and commercial advisory work, has led to his long-standing relationship with one of the world’s largest entertainment companies and other global companies including Western Digital, Allergan and Biogen Idec. Jonathan regularly advises on complex trademark opposition cases and EU-wide brand clearance in a range of fields, from pharmaceuticals to anti-counterfeiting and enforcement strategies, and from brand co-existence, comparative advertising, and the IP aspects of major acquisitions and disposals. Recent work includes dispute management and business ventures, providing “quick, thorough and practical” advice (Managing IP), for one of the world’s leading entertainment companies. Jonathan has also been involved in the strategic management of a global pharmaceutical company’s European brand portfolio, encompassing eye care, obesity, neuroscience and aesthetic medicines.

Carpmaels & Ransford LLP

Jonathan Devile

Jonathan has extensive experience in drafting and obtaining patent applications worldwide and contentious issues including litigation, oppositions, strategic assistance on infringement, licensing issues and due diligence matters, and continues to attract work from his clients in the fields of electronics and software, and particularly wireless technologies, both broadcast and mobile technologies, telecommunications engineering, internet protocols and applications, image and signal processing, and mobile communications. Jonathan also has litigation experience and is active in appeals, litigation and due diligence exercises for clients. He has a keen interest in standards related patents and is often asked to prepare patent applications for standards related inventions.

D Young & Co LLP

Jonathan Dover

Partner.

Hill Dickinson LLP

Jonathan Dunkley

Jonathan leads the London Restructuring and Insolvency Team of Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP. He is a seasoned lawyer with extensive experience advising on non-contentious corporate restructuring and insolvency matters, acting for a range of stakeholders at each stage of the business distress curve including lenders, insolvency practitioners and boards of directors. Jonathan's practice includes advising: Boards of directors on their duties in circumstances of financial distress and the restructuring options available to them Insolvency practitioners and acquirers on business and asset sales via formal insolvency processes Lenders on security enhancement and enforcement options. Jonathan has undertaken work in a broad range of sectors including energy, care homes, casual dining, retail and manufacturing.

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Jonathan Eley

Jonathan advises employers and senior executives on the full range of legal issues connected with employment, including large-scale redundancies, TUPE, team moves, contract changes and employment litigation. His employer clients include media organisations, charities (including schools), NDPBs, galleries and museums and professional firms (including other law firms, accountancy practices and barristers chambers).

Farrer & Co

Jonathan Ellis

Jonathan is a commercial litigator who specialises in the sports sector. He is a trusted advisor to some of the biggest names in sport, with clients describing him as “technically excellent and extremely responsive” and as being “a superb litigator” and “one of the leading sports regulatory lawyers in the industry”. He has extensive experience of appearing before domestic arbitral tribunals, the Court of Arbitration for Sport and in proceedings before FIFA. He has been The FA’s primary advisor on contentious and regulatory matters for more than 17 years, undertaking a wide range of work from advising on the regulation of intermediaries through to acting for The FA in its successful defence of expedited arbitral proceedings brought by Norwich City and arbitration proceedings commenced by Nottingham Forest FC. Jonathan also acts for leading Premier League and European football clubs, the Welsh Rugby Union and Premiership Rugby.

Northridge Law LLP

Jonathan Erdman

Jonathan is a property solicitor who deals with both commercial and residential property transactions. He often advises on the acquisition of residential blocks, industrial sites, office parks and mixed use developments for either the break-up of investment sales or residential plot sales. Jonathan also advises commercial landlords on lettings and assists with residential lease extensions. His clients include property traders, developers and investors, and he has particular specialism in sub-sales and development sales (including Help to Buy).

Keystone Law

Jonathan Eves

Partner in the corporate finance team with a particular focus on corporate finance transactions in the energy and healthcare sectors. Details of significant deals: acting for various developers, funders and institutional investors on investment in, and the acquisition and disposal of, renewable energy projects and portfolios across a range of technologies; advising Bluefield Solar on the acquisition of and financing of a portfolio of 15 operational solar PV plants with an aggregate capacity of 64.2MWp; advising GCP Infrastructure Investments (Gravis) in relation to the acquisition of a 70MWp portfolio of five operating wind farms from funds managed by Platina Energy Partners; advising Statkraft UK Ltd on its acquisition of UK onshore wind developer Airvolution Clean Energy Ltd.

Burges Salmon LLP

Jonathan Fear

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Jonathan Fewster

Partner

Broadfield Law UK LLP

Jonathan Gallop

Blaser Mills Law

Jonathan Gater

Jonathan Gater is a partner in the Wills, Probate, Tax & Trusts team at Blandy & Blandy. He specialises in trust and estate administration, Powers of Attorney and Court of Protection matters. He acts as Attorney for a number of clients, assisting them with the day-to-day management of their affairs and also regularly acts as Executor or Trustee for clients. Jonathan works closely with the rest of his team, who are specialists in Court of Protection matters. They regularly act for people who are under the jurisdiction of the Court of Protection and are experienced in acting as independent Deputies for incapacitated people, and making deputyship applications for family members who wish to be appointed.

Blandy & Blandy LLP

Jonathan Gatward

Jonathan is a Partner in the Corporate and Sport departments. Jonathan is primarily a transactional lawyer advising clients on the full range of corporate transactions including acquisitions, disposals, mergers, reorganisations and joint ventures, working closely with colleagues in other departments – tax, employment and property. He acts mainly for private companies but of all sizes, including start-ups, family offices and entrepreneurs, many of whom are active internationally. Jonathan's clients operate across a range of business sectors, but he has a particular interest in businesses whose branding and intellectual property rights are key assets, including publishing and fashion. Jonathan also has an expertise in partnership law, including LLPs and LPs, and advises on all aspects of their set up and structuring, management and mergers and disposals. His clients include professional practices, other business partnerships and investors.

Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Jonathan Gilbert

Jonathan Gilbert is a Partner in Flint Bishop’s Large Loss team, specialising in defending complex and high-value pre-litigation and litigated insurance claims. He focuses on catastrophic personal injury matters, including brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, orthopaedic injuries, and somatoform disorder claims. Jonathan provides strategic advice to insurer clients on claims management, risk mitigation, and product development, including drafting technical aspects of policy wordings. He also manages and mentors three specialist large loss lawyers, ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality, commercially-focused legal services.

Flint Bishop

Jonathan Goldberg

Jonathan is a Consultant in the Residential Property practice at Quastels and has over 30 years of experience acting for both commercial and private clients. Jonathan deals with high-value residential property transactions and has a wide range of clients. He has outstanding expertise in property acquisitions and disposals as well as landlord and tenant matters. Above all else Jonathan values his strong and longstanding relationships with his clients many of which go back over 25 years. He is known for his efficiency, integrity, and client focus.

Quastels LLP

Jonathan Goldfarb

Jonathan's practice focuses on the development and finance of offshore energy projects, with a specialist focus on the LNG sector. He advises on project tendering, vessel construction, EPCIC, financing, sale and purchase and leasing arrangements in respect of FSRUs, LNGCs, FLNG, FPSOs/FSOs, drilling units and drillships. He acts for some of the leading vessel owners and energy contractors, and handles a wide variety of projects in the oil and gas sectors. Jonathan has been particularly active on Floating Storage and Regasification (FSRU) projects in the LNG sector, advising on projects in Indonesia, India, Brazil, Dubai, Jordan and Jamaica amongst many others, as well as being at the forefront of the FLNG sector, having advised on one of the first floating liquefaction projects to be successfully implemented, in Cameroon. Client endorsements: “Jonathan Goldfarb is particularly active in the LNG sector and draws warm praise from sources: 'He keeps on top of things and makes sure it all works'." (Chambers UK) "Jon Goldfarb is a warm, principled person, with whom one can enjoy working even under stressful conditions. He takes an holistic approach to a client’s issues, and ensures that a proper balance is struck between defending one’s interests, and reaching a timely and efficient conclusion to a matter." (Legal 500) "Jonathan is one of the finest lawyers and importantly, persons I have ever worked with. His focus on his client; command of his subject; and overall genuine nature is unparalleled." (LinkedIn Client Endorsement) Jonathan is recommended within Legal 500 in commodities disputes as well as oil and gas.

Wikborg Rein

Jonathan Grant

Partner, Head of Corporate

DMH Stallard LLP

Jonathan Greenwood

Mills & Reeve LLP

Jonathan Grimes

Jonathan is an experienced criminal lawyer specialising in serious and complex cases. A leader in the field of Proceeds of Crime work, he has particular expertise dealing with law enforcement applications that seek to freeze or seize assets. His business crime practice includes all areas of financial crime and regulatory matters, including corruption, money laundering, anti-competitive behaviour, insider dealing, market manipulation, and fraud, often for HNW individuals. Jonathan also represents companies and individuals during the initial police and Health and Safety Executive investigation, through to the conclusion of cases at inquests or in the criminal courts. He has extensive trial experience over many years across all areas of crime. He acts as independent legal adviser in investigations of all kinds, many in the banking sector, attending numerous interviews with employers and regulators both in the UK and abroad. A number of his cases have involved advising individuals following requests from overseas authorities for UK assistance under Mutual Legal Assistance treaties. He is also Kingsley Napley’s Money Laundering Reporting officer.

Kingsley Napley LLP

Jonathan Gross

Jonathan is an experienced and active commercial real estate lawyer and co-founded Quastels with David Quastel in 1998. As legal adviser to some of the UK’s largest family offices, private companies and entrepreneurs he is trusted by his clients for his depth of experience in investment, joint ventures and his ability to effect introductions at the highest level. He is also particularly active with clients involved in the arts and finance. Regarded by his loyal clients as a deal maker his clients rely upon him for his tactical and strategic approach to getting things done. Before starting Quastels, Jonathan spent nine years at Allen & Overy and SJ Berwin & Co. He has a degree in law from City Business School and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Quastels LLP

Jonathan Hadley-Piggin

Jonathan is a highly experienced marine specialist, with a broad legal practice that focuses on both the domestic and international yachting sector. His client base comprises banks and private individuals in the yacht and superyacht industry. In addition, Jonathan advises marine businesses, crew and other leisure marine operators such as yacht management companies and marina owners. Jonathan lectures regularly and is an examiner on the MCA Master Yachts course for aspiring superyacht captains. He is a regular speaker at events in the UK and overseas where he provides seminars for the British Marine Federation (BMF), the Maritime Training Academy (MTA) and the International Institute of Marine Surveyors (IIMS) and has written a number of diploma publications for the MTA and for the MCA Master Yachts course. Prior to becoming a solicitor, Jonathan spent twelve years at sea as a navigating officer with BP Shipping and then as a submarine officer in the Royal Navy.

Keystone Law

Jonathan Haley

Jonathan is head of the professional practices group at Farrer & Co. He specialises in partnership and Limited Liability Partnership law, advising a broad range of partnerships and individual partners, including other law firms, surveyors and architects, on their structure, mergers, acquisitions and disposals.

Farrer & Co

Jonathan Hambleton

Jonathan heads Freeths’ corporate team in Milton Keynes where he has gained a reputation for his commercial and client focused approach to transactions. His expertise covers M&As, MBOs, joint ventures and corporate restructuring as well as banking and finance. His team has handled some highly complex and substantial deals, providing expert input on funding and structuring of transactions.

Freeths LLP

Jonathan Hancox

Jonathan is an experienced European and Chartered Patent Attorney in our Electronics, Software and Communications team. Jonathan trained and qualified in private practice, following which, in 2002, he joined Kimberly-Clark, a US-based multinational consumer goods corporation, as in-house European Patent Counsel. In this role, he gained significant commercial experience in the areas of European Oppositions and Appeals, infringement clearance, validity assessments and patent enforcement. Jonathan returned to private practice in 2009. Jonathan handles patent work across the engineering field, including mechanical, electrical and electronic subject-matter. He also handles registered designs.

Venner Shipley LLP