Prior to joining Walkers Management Services, Jon worked for Morgan Stanley for eight years. Most recently, he was an Executive Director in Fixed Income, where he was the Head of the New York Distressed Debt Documentation Group, and the trading desk lawyer for the Corporate Credit Group in New York. Up to 2009, Jon was in-house legal counsel at Morgan Stanley, first in Tokyo and then in New York, and provided legal coverage and advice to a wide range of fixed income and institutional equity businesses.
Before Morgan Stanley, Jon was in-house legal counsel at Commerz Securities (Commerzbank) in Tokyo. Prior to Commerz Securities, Jon worked for Wilde Sapte (now SNR Denton), where he qualified and practised as a finance lawyer in London and Tokyo.