Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

Litigation and Regulation

Partner, Head of Litigation and Regulation

Jon is Head of Litigation and Dispute Resolution at Byrne Wallace Shields LLP. His specialist areas are financial services, corporate and intellectual property litigation and he is rated in the legal directories for his work in these areas.

His work focuses on the early economic analysis of cases, rational behaviour in dispute situations, and strategies designed to achieve business gains where conflicts arise.  He is well versed in all types of Court actions including Mareva Injunctions, Anton Piller Orders and other pre-emptive remedies.  He has a very high success rate in getting disputes resolved quickly and effectively.

His chosen areas of specialisation are company and corporate disputes, regulatory disputes, project based litigation in the construction and logistics sectors, and intellectual property/information technology matters. His work has included representing clients in business critical injunctions to protect or freeze assets and he has worked in leading law firms in England and Australasia including Slaughter and May in the United Kingdom and Chapman Tripp in New Zealand, before joining Byrne Wallace Shields LLP in 2010.

• Dublin Solicitors Bar Association
• Law Society of Ireland
• Law Society of England & Wales
• Law Society of New Zealand
• Member of the Anti-Counterfeiting Group
• Member of the Society of Computers and the Law

• Bachelor of Arts (BA)(Honours)(Political Science), University of King’s College, Halifax, Canada, 1990
• Master of Science (Msc)(Econ)(British Politics), London School of Economics and Political Science
• Bachelor of Laws (LLB), University of Edinburgh, 1994
• Common Professional Exam (CPE) , College of Law, Store Street, London, 1995
• Legal Practice Course (LPC) , College of Law, Store Street, London, 1996
• Admitted as a Solicitor, Law Society of England & Wales, 1998
• Admitted as a Barrister, New Zealand Law Society, 1999
• Admitted as a solicitor in Ireland in 2010