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Jon is a commercial chancery practitioner, who specialises in insolvency and company matters.

His recent cases include:

• • Mitchell v Al Jaber [2023] EWHC 1239 (Ch) – liquidation, breach of fiduciary duty, compound interest;
  • Re Lloyds British Testing Ltd (in liquidation) [2023] EWHC 567 (Ch) - liquidation, breach of fiduciary duty, pension drawdown;
  • Re Fastfit Station Ltd (in liquidation) [2023] EWHC 496 (Ch) – liquidation, breach of fiduciary duty, transactions at anundervalue, preferences;
  • Allen v Bulatovic [2023] EWHC 612 (Ch) – bankruptcy, transactions at an undervalue, proprietary injunction, freezing injunction;
  • Chopra v Katrin Properties Ltd [2022] EWHC 2728 (Ch) – bankruptcy, statutory demands;
  • Brake & Ors v The Chedington Court Estate Ltd [2022] EWCA Civ 1302 – unlawful eviction; trustees in bankruptcy;
  • Little Miracles Ltd v Oliver & Ors [2022] EWHC 2553 (Ch) – bankruptcy, provable debts;
  • Al Nasser and Al Masri Trading Co WLL LLC v Munir [2022] EWHC 1174 (QB) – enforcement of foreign judgments;
  • Financial Conduct Authority v Ferreira [2022] EWCA Civ 397 – statutory interpretation of FSMA 2000;
  • Parker v Financial Conduct Authority [2021] EWCA Crim 956 – constructive trusts, criminal confiscation regime;
  • Legacy Education Alliance v Progression [2019] EWHC 3498 (Ch) – administration, company voluntary arrangements;
  • Azuonye v Kent [2019] EWCA Civ 1289, [2018] EWHC 2766 (Ch) – bankruptcy, income payments orders, provable debts;
  • Itxen Ltd v Canning [2019] EWHC 3546 (Ch) – administration, winding-up petitions;

Jon previously worked for the Boston Consulting Group and the Financial Conduct Authority. He subsequently re-trained as a barrister and was awarded Lincoln’s Inn 2015 “Student of the Year” for achieving the highest mark in the BPTC.

Called to the Bar 2015.

Jon regularly acts in, and advises on, commercial disputes.

Jon has a busy company law practice and has a particular expertise in relation to petitions brought pursuant to section 994 of the Companies Act 2006.

Jon has regularly acts in insolvency matters (both corporate and personal) and has particular expertise in claims against directors for breach of duty / misfeasance, wrongful and fraudulent trading, ultra vires distributions, transactions at an undervalue and preferences.

BA History, Hertford College, Oxford: First Class GDL, BPP: Distinction BPTC, City University: Outstanding (Lincoln’s Inn “Student of the Year” for highest mark in the year)