Dr Jonathan Paul Cornthwaite > Wedlake Bell LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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Dr Jonathan Paul Cornthwaite

Work Department
Intellectual property, commercial and competition law.
Position
Jonathan specialises in intellectual property law including copyright, trade marks, databases, designs, domain names and confidential information; information technology law, including the licensing of software; commercial law including e-commerce law; data protection law and UK and EU competition law, including in particular anti-competitive agreements and abuses of dominance.
Career
Jonathan has been a partner at Wedlake Bell since 1988. He qualified as a solicitor at a firm in Lincoln’s Inn in 1979. He holds a BA(Hons) in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford and an MA(Hons) in Medieval History and Law from the University of Cambridge.
Jonathan regularly speaks on topics such as copyright law, recently giving an annual lecture at the University of Cambridge. |
Languages
Spanish (fluent), Italian, French.
Memberships
Honorary Fellow of the Association of Fellows and Legal Scholars of the Centre for International Legal Studies, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He sits on the Electronics, IT and E-commerce Committee of the Licensing Executives Society International (one of the world’s largest IP organisations); he serves as a director and the Honorary Secretary of The City of Westminster and Holborn Law Society; and is on the speaker panel of The Society for Computers and Law.
Member of the Intellectual Property Lawyers’ Organisation, the Society for Computers and Law, the Federation against Software Theft Legal Advisory Group, the Licensing Executives’ Society, the Law Society’s Competition Section, the British Spanish Law Association, and the Spanish Chamber of Commerce.
Education
St Paul’s School, London; Keble College, BA(Hons) Jurisprudence, Oxford (open scholarship); MA(Hons) Medieval History and Law, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (foundation scholarship).
Leisure
History, languages, music.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Residential property
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Senior executives
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Employment > Employers
- Private client > Family
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms