Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP

Litigation: civil fraud; asset freezing and asset tracing; commercial, insolvency and trust litigation; crisis management; financial services litigation and dispute resolution.

Partner highly recommended in leading legal directories, Jonathan specialises in commercial litigation, with particular emphasis on international commercial litigation, civil fraud and asset recovery/tracing cases, corporate investigations and private damages claims in competition law. Jonathan has extensive experience dealing with multi-jurisdictional emergency procedures in the US, Europe and worldwide. Successful cases include acting for the Department of Health in claims against Reckitt Benckiser following the Office of Fair Trading's decision that Reckitt Benckiser had infringed competition law by withdrawing Gaviscon Original from the NHS; the £100m Secretary of State for Health's cartel litigation against various leading pharmaceutical companies; the $242m claims by shareholders of Banco Noroeste, Brazil, to recover funds stolen from the bank and laundered through the UK, Switzerland, Nigeria and Hong Kong. Other high profile cases include representing Tom Hicks and George Gillett in the Liverpool Football Club dispute and the Department of Health in a claim against a former senior civil servant for bribery and corruption. Acted for the steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal in a Commercial Court dispute with Manmohan Varma arising out of the award of Nigerian oil blocks. Jonathan acts for the Department of Health in a £225m claim against the French pharmaceutical group Servier in connection with the drug perindopril. Jonathan is a contributing editor and co-author of Getting The Deal Through Asset Recovery 2016 and 2017 editions. Lectures and writes widely on his specialist areas.

Trained at Peters & Peters; qualified 1995; partner 2002.

American Bar Association (ABA); honorary vice-president Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats (AIJA); Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS) and DRI (The Voice of the Defense Bar).

Birmingham City University (1991 LLB (Hons)).