Jonathan is an experienced lawyer based in London with a concentration on compliance and technology. He is also a Professor at Fordham Law School teaching a new post-graduate course on international compliance.

Jonathan’s professional practice includes advising multinational companies on risk and compliance across Europe. He has worked with boards including Fortune 250 organisations, UK plcs, and household names in manufacturing, technology, healthcare, luxury goods, automotive, construction and financial services. He understands how boards function in a crisis and the special role NEDs undertake when companies are growing or under stress. Jonathan has handled legal and compliance matters in more than 60 countries. He has been selected as one of the Thomson Reuters stand-out lawyers every year since the survey began. He is also listed as a Super Lawyer, and has been listed in Legal Experts since 2002.

In 2016, Jonathan was ranked as the 14th most influential figure in data security worldwide by Onalytica. In April 2017, Thomson Reuters listed Jonathan as the 6th most influential figure in risk, compliance and fintech in the UK. In 2019, he was the recipient of a Security Serious Unsung Heroes Award for his work in Information Security.

Jonathan is a frequent broadcaster for the BBC and a regular contributor to the "Everything Compliance" and "Life with GDPR" podcasts. He is also a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Marketing. He has spoken at conferences in the US, Japan, Canada, China, Brazil, Singapore, Vietnam, the Middle East & across Europe.

Jonathan is an expert on AI, and he currently serves on the New York State Bar Association’s AI Task Force looking at the impact of AI on law and regulation. He also sits on the Law Society AI Group. Additionally, he is the former trustee of a children’s music charity, and serves as the longstanding Co-Chair of the New York State Bar Association’s Rapid Response Taskforce, which has led the response to world events in a number of countries including Afghanistan, France, Pakistan, Poland & Ukraine.