Browne Jacobson LLP

Financial and professional risk.

Jonathan specialises in dealing with claims with a financial services or management liability element. He has particular expertise in policy coverage matters. He also regularly assists underwriters with the drafting of policy wording and advises insurers on strategy and risk management across professional indemnity books of business.

Jonathan is head of Browne Jacobson’s Financial & Professional Risks Group in Exeter, London and Nottingham, which comprises 12 Partners, 16 Solicitors and 8 Legal Assistants.

He is one of Browne Jacobson’s leading partners for insurance coverage disputes. He advises on both primary layer and excess layer insurance matters.

His coverage work has arisen primarily out of professional negligence matters but he has also received notable instructions in the context of product liability, property, public liability and employers’ liability covers.

He spends the majority of his time providing strategic advice to one of Browne Jacobson’s most significant clients, Hiscox Insurance Co Ltd. As part of his role as the partner with key responsibility for managing that client relationship Jonathan also takes responsibility for the delegated authority claims handling schemes that we successfully run for Hiscox in relation to many hundreds of professional liability and employment practices liability claims.

Jonathan is head of the firm’s financial services and insurance groups. Recognised by The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners as a leading expert for the work he undertakes for insurance sector clients, he specialises in professional liability and insurance coverage disputes. He also regularly advises clients on financial services regulatory issues, including investigations and enforcement action.

Jonathan’s dispute resolution experience includes defending insurance and financial services businesses against civil claims and regulatory action. He also regularly advises insurers and their policyholders on management and corporate liability matters. Jonathan is also recognised for his insurance coverage and policy interpretation expertise on primary and excess layer business.

Clients regularly instruct Jonathan and our financial services and insurance groups on large or complex disputes. This includes helping clients achieve positive outcomes in their most strategically important matters including claims surge events and regulatory conduct matters. His teams also provide clients with delegated authority outsourced claims and complaints solutions.

Early career experience of working in-house on secondment means Jonathan is very responsive and his advice is always clear, pragmatic and commercial.

Trained Browne Jacobson; qualified 2003; partner 2011.

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1999 LLB Hons Law); Nottingham Law School (2001 LPC).

Golf and football.