• Banking and Finance
• Commercial Law
• Competition, Market Conduct
• Conflict of Laws (Private International Law)
• Constitutional Law
• Consumer Credit Law
• Corporate Insolvency and Reconstruction
• Corporations and Securities
• Corporate Fraud (“White Collar” Crime)
• Human Rights/Victorian Charter
• International Commercial Arbitration
• Mining, Energy, Resources
• Professional Negligence
• Public International Law (Commercial Applications, e.g. Vienna Convention)
• Regulatory (Compliance/Investigations)
• Structured Finance/Complex Transactions  

Jonathon has a broad practice and is available to appear and advise in all areas in commercial, banking and finance, corporate and securities and constitutional law. Since coming to the Bar, Jonathon has appeared in a number of Supreme Court and High Court matters, as well as a major international commercial arbitration, and given numerous advices.

Jonathon was awarded the University Medal and was Australia's Menzies scholar to Harvard for 1998. He is a door tenant at the leading English commercial chambers of 3 Stone Buildings in London and New York (www.3sb.law.co.uk).

Before joing the Bar, Jonathon was a Senior Associate at the preeminent international banking and finance law firm, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, in New York and Melbourne/Sydney from 1999-2005. He also served as associate to Chief Justice John Doyle AC, Supreme Court of South Australia from February 1997 to July 1998. He read with Christopher Caleo SC.

• Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne Law School (Securities Regulation)
• Lecturer, University of Adelaide Law School (Corporate Governance & Directors' Duties)
• Victorian Bar, Civil Justice Reform Committee
• Reporter, Commonwealth Law Reports

• “Corporate Greenmail” (1997) 9 Corp & Bus Law Jnl 139
• “The Interface Between Public & Private Law” (1998) 7 Tort Law Rev. 30
• “Defences to Torts” (Laws of Australia, Updating Author)
• “Delaware’s Highest Court Rejects Extension of Directors’ Fiduciary Duty to Creditors” (Corporate Law Bulletin, May 2007)
• “Delaware’s Court Criticizes Sloppy Sale Process in Private Equity Auction” (Corporate Law Bulletin, June 2007)
• “Class Actions in Australia: Key Requirements and Emerging Trends” (IBA