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Mr Richard Jones

Work Department
Finance and Real Estate
Position
Co-Chair
Career
Richard D. Jones, co-chair of Dechert’s global finance and real estate practice groups, focuses his practice on capital markets and mortgage finance. Mr. Jones is widely published and a frequent speaker on a wide range of issues affecting the capital markets and mortgage finance markets. He is the founder of, and a frequent contributor to, the Dechert blog, CrunchedCredit, which takes a critical look at the global financial markets.
Memberships
Founder, Commercial Real Estate Institute (CRI); Chairman, Policy Advisory Committee, CRE Financial Council; Capital and Credit Policy Advisory Committee, Real Estate Roundtable; Member, American College of Real Estate Lawyers; Member, Commercial Mortgage Board of Governors (COMBOG) of the MBA
Education
Washington and Lee University, B.A., 1975, magna cum laude; University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1978; Boston University School of Law, LL.M., 1981
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Finance > Commercial lending
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)