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Senior Counsel

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Jonathan Turner

Jonathan is an experienced commercial litigator specialising in multi-jurisdictional disputes and contentious insolvency. 

Jonathan works with investment funds, financial institutions, insolvency practitioners, debtors, creditors and various corporate stakeholders. He is adept at handling large-scale litigation through to settlement or trial and including a range of interlocutory applications which commonly come before the Grand Court in complex proceedings. These frequently concern fraud and asset recovery, shareholder/limited partner disputes, corporate governance, and issues arising in corporate insolvency procedures.  

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Experience and recent work

Jonathan's recent work includes: 

  • Representing the claims manager of a $1 billion fund on claims arising from misconduct by the fund’s manager and the manager’s subsequent insolvency, culminating in a two-month multiparty trial before the Grand Court. 
  • Acting for the Principal Liquidators of a multi-million dollar investment fund with exposure to the Madoff Ponzi scheme. 
  • Acting for the Joint Official Liquidators of a Saudi Arabian conglomerate in a c. $70 million proof of debt appeal run as inter-partes proceedings against a major international bank. 
  • Various insolvency related proceedings relating to international energy companies, including:

    - acting for the Joint Official Liquidators of a Middle Eastern focused energy company in bringing claims to recover the company's muti-million dollar assets that were transferred prior to the liquidation;

  - to seek an injunction to prevent the presentation of a winding-up petition in respect of an           Asian focused energy company;

- to appoint joint provisional liquidators over an African focused oil exploration company.

  • Obtaining an anti-suit injunction on behalf of a Middle Eastern investment bank to prevent Cayman Islands law governed claims being litigated in Abu Dhabi, and subsequent enforcement of costs orders by way of garnishee applications.  

 Jonathan trained at a leading city firm in London, before qualifying as a litigator with a specialism in defamation, privacy, and breach of confidence at a firm with a top tier practice in those areas. Jonathan's clients in London included high profile individuals and blue-chip companies.  

Qualifications

Admitted in:

  • Cayman Islands
  • England and Wales (not practising)


Education:

  • MA (Hons) in Modern History, University of Oxford
  • Graduate Diploma in Law (distinction), BPP Law School, London
  • Legal Practice Course (distinction), BPP Law School, London
  • INSOL Foundation Certificate in International Insolvency Law
Jonathan is a member of the Cayman Islands Legal Practitioners Association; the Law Society of England and Wales; INSOL; and the Restructuring and Insolvency Specialists Association.

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