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Jonathan Lopian
Position
A commercial chancery barrister, called in 1994, with an advisory and litigation practice primarily focused on company, insolvency and commercial law and with previous high-level professional experience in the field of corporate finance within the investment banking and international business sectors.
Specialising in all aspects of company and insolvency law. His commercial practice covers all types of contractual disputes, commercial fraud and claims relating to the law of agency, guarantees, banking, partnership, professional negligence, breaches of trust and fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment and asset-tracing.
Jonathan appears regularly in the High Court and in the Court of Appeal and is instructed both on short-term matters such as urgent applications for interim injunctive relief and on long-running cases from their inception through to final determination at trial.
Recent cases include: McTear & Williams v Engelhard & Others [2016] EWCA Civ 487; Hamilton v (1) Brown (2) C&MB Holdings Ltd [2016] EWHC 191 (Ch), [2016] BPIR 531; DMQA Investments Limited (In Liquidation); McKenzie v Marshall (2016); (Ch) JCAM Commercial Real Estate Property XV Limited v Davis Haulage Limited [2016] EWHC 772 (Ch); Godefroy v Company Health Limited & Others [2015] EWHC 3978; Re Calibre Solicitors Limited (In Administration) [2015] BPIR 435.
Career
Call 1994.
Before commencing practice at the Bar, Jonathan worked for six years in high-level corporate finance. He was a corporate finance executive at the leading UK merchant bank Morgan Grenfell specialising in company flotations, mergers and acquisitions during the takeover boom of the mid-eighties and then manager of the corporate finance division of the international company Olympia & York, at the time the world’s largest private property development company which built Canary Wharf in London, Battery Park City in New York and First Canadian Place in Toronto. This previous professional experience provides him with a distinct and rare advantage in his legal practice with its heavy commercial and financial focus.
Junior Counsel to the Crown 1999-2009
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association
Insolvency Lawyers’ Association
Education
Cambridge (MA PhD); Cambridge (BA, Double First, History); City University (Dip Law, Distinction).
Senior Scholarship, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge; Research Scholarship, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge; Queen Mother’s Scholarship, Middle Temple
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Company and partnership
(Company - Leading juniors) Ranked: Tier 4Jonathan Lopian –New Square Chambers ‘His highly analytical approach ensures that no points are left unexplored so that he always approaches each matter with a fresh pair of eyes.’
‘A great set, stuffed to the gunnels with super bright individuals‘, New Square Chambers‘ members cover the gamut of contentious and non-contentious company law work, with a stand-out offshore practice. Robin Hollington QC is known for shareholder disputes and regularly appears in the BVI, Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He is leading Adrian Pay in Re Compound Photonics, an unfair prejudice petition, on behalf of the minority shareholders. In (1)Elnur Aliyev (2) Pure Energy Developments SARL v (1) Panacea Resource Solutions Limited (2) Panacea PED Limited, Jonathan Lopian is representing the first defendant in a contractual and unfair prejudice claim.
London Bar > Insolvency
(Leading Juniors) Ranked: Tier 3Jonathan Lopian –New Square Chambers ‘He has an inordinate ability to quickly assert command over a new matter.’