| Jonathan
joined Davenport Lyons as a partner in January 2004
from US firm Cozen O’Connor and is a senior corporate
lawyer. His expertise involves acquisitions and disposals
for companies in the financial services, manufacturing,
retail, gaming and leisure sectors and he also acts
as general counsel and advises a number of high net-worth
family groups in relation to their UK and international
interests. Jonathan enjoys providing legal, strategic
and all-round business solutions.
Jonathan has extensive experience of corporate and
financial cross-border transactions and was previously
joint head of banking and financial services at Lovells.
Jonathan also served as General Counsel to Citibank
N.A. in the UK and Europe, with responsibility for
English law matters worldwide.
Recent matters have included:
- Acting on behalf of an offshore group of companies
in respect of complex offshore secured financing and
re-scheduling.
- Advising a range of leisure and retail businesses
in relation to business and strategic matters.
- Advising on the disposal of insurance portfolios
on behalf of a US based global insurance business.
- Advising a listed US gaming company on its business
and regulatory matters in relation to UK acquisitions
and expansion.
- Advising on secured refinancing arrangements on
behalf of US investors for an international technology
group.
- Advising participants on a major secured sub-participation
financing with a major US investment bank.
- Advising AIM listed Mission Capital plc on its
first acquisition: KML – a parking garage
management business.
- Advising on the acquisition of a specialised telecommunications
engineering company for US clients.
- Advising on the acquisition of a software development
company on behalf of listed US clients.
- Advising on a wide range of acquisitions, as well
as commercial and service agreements for a private
branded UK – ATM network.
- Advising Momedia International on the disposal of
a strategic stake to Endemol UK.
Jonathan acts on the Board of several
UK companies and has been a regular speaker on banking
and financial services issues for the Institute of Bankers,
The International Bar Association, The American Bar
Association and The Centre for Commercial Law Studies,
Queen Mary’s
College, London University. He is a member of
the International Bar Association and the American
Bar Association. Jonathan graduated from Downing
College, Cambridge with an MA in law.
Outside the office his interests include family,
communal and charity work, the arts, history, France,
gardening and swimming. Jonathan is a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Arts.
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