Jonathon is a Silk based at Banco Chambers, Sydney.
He has a broad national practice encompassing advice and appearance work in (i) high value commercial disputes and class actions, (ii) international arbitration and private international law, and (iii) public law, regulatory matters and commissions of inquiry.
He is regularly retained by leading law firms and corporate clients to conduct cases throughout Australia at first instance and on appeal, and internationally, including in arbitrations seated in Singapore, London and New York. He is the current Vice President of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA), the peak arbitral body in Australia. His arbitration expertise is also recognised in the leading international directory Who’s Who Legal, in which he is described as an “energetic practitioner who pays close attention to detail‚” with “an incredibly strong practice”. He is also a member of Twenty Essex in Singapore and London.
Prior to coming to the Bar, Jonathon was a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School teaching comparative corporate governance and securities regulation. Before this, Jonathon was a Senior Associate in the Financial Institutions Group at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York from 1999 to 2005.
Jonathon was a reporter for the Commonwealth Law Reports from 2006-2016.
Jonathon is ranked as a leading Silk by the international directories, Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 and is ranked as a leading arbitration Silk by Who’s Who.