Jonathan Compton > DMH Stallard LLP > Guildford, England > Lawyer Profile

Jonathan Compton

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Work Department

Dispute Resolution

Position

Partner

Career

Jonathan is a Dispute Resolution and Litigation partner based in Guildford. He is qualified both as a barrister and a solicitor, with his experience as an advocate strongly underpinning his commercial litigation work. His practice is both domestic and international, and involves advising private individuals and commercial organisations of all sizes.

Jonathan works across areas of commercial dispute resolution including banking and finance, regulatory and anti trust/competition practice.

He is accredited as an Arbitrator by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and also holds a master’s degree in competition law, a specialism greatly valued by many of the firm’s commercial clients.

Jonathan qualified as a solicitor in 1999.

Work highlights

• Jonathan has two reported cases, Rexy Finance Limited v Morgan Stanley International and Close Brothers Limited v Ridsdale and others, both involving banking law. In the first case he acted for the Claimant customer (a company based in Singapore and involving aspects of Singaporean and Malaysian banking law), and in the second for the bank.
• Recent high profile work includes advising in relation to professional negligence, banking law and advising in relation to the selling of interest rate hedging products and a multiparty competition law case involving an allegation of prohibited concerted practices within the UK.

Languages

English

Memberships

• Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitration
• Member of Hon. Soc. of Gray’s Inn