Representative victories include winning dismissal of federal antitrust class action against the restaurant Eleven Madison Park in January 2019, the successful defense of DraftKings against attempts by state attorneys general to shut down its business operations in 2015 and 2016; successful prosecution of an international arbitration claim on behalf of OPAP in the Court of International Arbitration over the Greek state’s appropriation of valuable license rights in the Greek lottery; securing through trial $9 billion in assets for Barclays relating to the bank’s purchase of the Lehman Brothers brokerage business in the 2008 financial crisis; a 2014 arbitration award for Goldman Sachs that rejected claims of fraud by the co-founders of Marvell Technology Group; a 2013 dispute preventing the ticket reseller StubHub from opening a storefront near Yankee Stadium; and a settlement in January 2013 for the clothing magnate Tory Burch in an intellectual property dispute with her former partner and husband. He is currently leading the global defense of Barclays in lawsuits and class actions following the bank’s $453 million LIBOR settlement. He is also defending Barclays in the ICE LIBOR antitrust class action filed in January 2019.
Jonathan has tried cases before juries and judges in federal and state courts in the United States, and before arbitral tribunals worldwide including the ICC, the LCIA, and UNCITRAL. He has represented global corporations based in the United States, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Kuwait, and Singapore in complex commercial disputes against foreign sovereigns and companies. In addition to representing world-class clients, he has served as an arbitrator in ICC, UNCITRAL, AAA, and ad hoc arbitrations. He served as a member of a Tribunal of the ICC International Court of Arbitration in 2016 related to the failure of replacement steam generators that Mitsubishi supplied for the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in southern California.
While maintaining full litigation and management responsibilities at BSF, Jonathan recently finished his five year term as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Columbia University.
Jonathan received Columbia Law School's highest honor, the Medal of Excellence, in 2019. He received the Alexander Hamilton Medal for “distinguished service and accomplishment” from Columbia College in 2012. In 2006, he received the John Jay Award for “distinguished professional achievement” from Columbia College, and in 2017 was named an inaugural Legend of Ivy League Basketball for "achievements and contributions to the Ivy League.” He was elected a fellow of the American Bar Foundation “in recognition of professional attainment, and distinguished service”, has been a member of the Milan Chamber of Commerce national and international arbitration club of arbitrators for 22 years, and is National Membership Chair of the U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society. Jonathan is a Trustee of the American Ballet Theater, and was Chair of the Board of Directors of the Washington Tennis and Education Foundation (1996-1998), which provides tennis instruction and academic tutoring to at-risk children throughout Washington D.C.
Board of Trustees, Supreme Court Historical Society, Washington D.C.
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