JONATHAN IS AN ASSOCIATE IN THE DISPUTE RESOLUTION GROUP.
Jonathan’s practice focusses on the energy, infrastructure and transport sectors.
Within these sectors, he maintains a broad practice across international commercial, construction and investment treaty arbitration. Domestically, he also has experience of resolving disputes by way of litigation, adjudication and mediation.
In the investment treaty sphere, Jonathan has experience of disputes under the ICSID and UNCITRAL arbitration rules and has assisted both investors and respondent States, making him familiar with the unique pressures placed on each party.
A substantial part of Jonathan’s commercial work relates to complex, high-value construction and engineering disputes before adjudicatory bodies or arbitral institutions such as the ICC, LCIA and DIAC. He has particular experience with the FIDIC and JCT forms of contract.
Jonathan is a keen academic who regularly publishes and hopes to pursue a PHD in the future. He is currently completing his second LLM in Energy and Climate Change Law at Queen Mary University of London and achieved a Distinction in his first LLM in International Dispute Resolution at King’s College London.
- Advising Kuwaiti investors on a telecommunications dispute against the Kingdom of Jordan. Assisting with both the initial treaty dispute and subsequent ICSID annulment proceedings.
- Assisting US and Canadian investors with bilateral investment treaty claims brought under the UNCITRAL rules against Romania.
- Representing a Panamanian employer in several FIDIC DAB proceedings and subsequent multi-billion-dollar ICC arbitrations relating to a major maritime project in Central America. This matter also involved various applications to the Courts of England and Wales.
- Advising a consortium of Spanish contractors in two separate ICC arbitrations relating to two of the world’s largest solar farm projects based in Africa.
- Assisting a leading arbitral institution in defending claims for breach of contract before the Dubai Courts.
Education
- 2022 – 2024 · Queen Mary University of London, LLM in Energy and Climate Change Law, Distinction (predicted).
- 2015 – 2016 · King’s College London, LLM in International Dispute Resolution, Distinction.
- 2011 – 2015 · University of Exeter, LLB in Law with European Study, 2:1 Hons.
- 2013 – 2014 · University of Szeged, Diploma in Comparative European Law, Distinction.
memberships and associations
- Member, Young ICCA, International Council for Commercial Arbitration
- Member, LCIA, London Court of International Arbitration
- Member, Law Society of England and Wales