Jonathan Cohen

Jonathan Cohen represents clients in a variety of corporate and commercial contexts, across a number of different industry sectors, including energy, financial services, technology, manufacturing, shipping, and food and beverage, on both litigation and arbitration matters – often with a multi-jurisdictional element. Jonathan’s experience includes advising clients in relation to post-acquisition disputes, supply chain disputes, outsourcing disputes, shareholder and JV disputes, claims relating to force majeure, and product liability and safety matters.

Jonathan has extensive experience of managing disputes from the pre-action stage through to the substantive hearing and appeal, both in the English courts as well as arbitration under the LCIA, ICC and UNCITRAL Rules.

Technology

• Representing a leading international communications solutions business in a business critical dispute with its service provider regarding a contract for the stabilisation, transfer, ongoing development and management of IT systems and migration to a cloud based solution.
• Advising a well-known UK retailer in relation to a contractual dispute arising out of the development, deployment and performance of a complex IT platform provided by a third party for our client.
• Representing a well-known multinational technology company in relation to issues arising from a substantial telecoms upgrade project. This has involved advising the client in relation to its contractual rights and obligations as against the counterparty and assisting our client with the resolution of two contractual disputes and subsequent renegotiation of parts of the project documentation.
• Representing a global consumer goods company on a dispute regarding the partial termination of outsourced telecommunications services.
• Representing a leading digital distributor of insurance and financial services in relation to a dispute with a third party software company, which was contracted to develop our client’s “front-end” interface.

• Listed as a key lawyer for International Arbitration and Commercial Litigation. Legal 500
• He "is a star in the making: always on top of things and ready to go the extra mile to get things just right." Legal 500

• Kaplan Law School, LPC
• BPP University Law School, GDL
• University of Birmingham, BA Hons (American and Canadian Studies)
• University of California, San Diego
  (study abroad programme)

• England und Wales
• Solicitor Advocate with Higher Rights of Audience (Civil)