Chambers of Edward Cohen
LINCOLN'S INN, LONDON, WC2A 3TG, ENGLAND
- Tel:
- Work 020 7831 6381
- Fax:
- Fax 020 7831 2575
- DX:
- 1022 LONDON CHANCERY LANE WC2
- Web:
- www.11sb.com
- Email:
Jonathan Lopian
- Tel:
- Work +44 20 7831 6381
- Email:
Work Department
Company and insolvency, commercial.
Position
Jonathan won a senior scholarship followed by a research scholarship at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where he took a double first in history and completed his doctorate in the history of crime and law enforcement. He was awarded a Queen Mother’s Scholarship by Middle Temple and gained a distinction in the Diploma in Law at City University. He has wide commercial and financial experience gained in the seven years before coming to the Bar in 1994, first as a corporate finance executive specialising in mergers and acquisitions at the leading UK merchant bank Morgan Grenfell (now part of Deutsche Bank) and then as manager of the corporate finance division at major international corporation Olympia & York, working in New York, Toronto and London. Jonathan practises in corporate and commercial litigation and advisory work, specialising in company law, partnership law, insolvency, corporate finance and financial services, as well as professional negligence, compliance, commercial fraud and contractual disputes. He was Junior Counsel to the Crown (Attorney General’s Panel) from 1999-2009. Jonathan is recommended as a leading barrister for commercial chancery and insolvency. For more detailed information, please consult the barristers’ section on www.11sb.com.
Career
Called 1994; Junior Counsel to the Crown 1999-2009; spent a number of years working first for Morgan Grenfell as a mergers and acquisitions specialist and then as manager of the corporate finance division of the major international corporation, Olympia & York in New York, Toronto and London.
Member
Chancery Bar Association.
Education
MA Phd (Cantab).
