Biography
Jonathan is ranked as a ‘Leading Individual’ for Private Equity by Chambers UK 2025, as a ‘Leading Partner’ in Legal 500 UK 2025 and is ‘Highly Regarded’ in IFLR1000 UK 2024. Chambers states that Jonathan is “held in high regard due to his experience handling high-end private equity transactions. He displays strength in complex buyouts, carve-outs and takeovers” with clients saying that he “fantastically experienced” and "is very commercial, creative and constructive.”
He has been included in Private Equity News’ 20 Most Influential Private Equity Lawyers 2024 which recognizes “the top legal minds working in the buyout sector” in Europe. He was also included in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 where it was noted that he is able to take “clients through…high-pressure situations with strong preparation as well as a very clear and pragmatic view of risk”.
Experience includes advising:
- Advent International and portfolio companies on a range of matters including:
- the consortium’s $8 billion take private bid for Sobi; the £4 billion takeover of Cobham plc; the investment in Aareon and, along with Aareal Bank, on its €3.9 billion sale of Aareon; the take private of Maxar Technologies
- portfolio company Laird on its carve-out sale of its Connected Vehicle Solutions, Connectivity, Performance Materials and Thermal Systems divisions
- portfolio company Cobham on its $2.8 billion sale of Cobham Mission Systems and its $1.9 billion sale of CAES Systems Holdings to Honeywell
- General Atlantic and portfolio companies:
- on the investment in the Permira and Blackstone-led take-private of Adevinta; the investment in Dixa; the investment in Property Finder; the acquisition of a majority interest in Kiwi.com; its investments in Depop and Typeform; the acquisition and sale of MeteoGroup; its investment in FNZ and Ant Financial; and on its exit from Axel Springer Digital Classified
- through its climate growth fund BeyondNetZero on its majority investment in GRESB and minority investment in Wireless Logic
- Depop and its selling shareholders on the sale of the company to Etsy for $1.625 billion
- portfolio company Howden Group (formerly Hyperion Insurance Group) on its: acquisition of RK Harrison; acquisition of A-Plan; acquisition of Aston Lark; acquisition of TigerRisk Partners; take-private of Assiteca; the investments by CDPQ and Hg Saturn in Howden Group; and most recently on its acquisition of Barnett Waddingham
- CVC Capital Partners on the acquisition of RiverStone Europe from Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited and its acquisition of Dale Partners
- Generation Investment Management on its: investment partnership with Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and that partnership's acquisition of FNZ; equity investment of up to $600 million in Octopus Energy Group
- Berkshire Partners on the sale of VetStrategy to IVC, with Berkshire’s reinvestment in IVC and its acquisition of a 49% stake in MedOne
- CD&R on its acquisition of OCS Group
- Ardian on its: acquisition of Evaluate; sale of Envision Pharma
- Bd-Capital on its: preliminary fundraise to acquire Symprove Holdings; investment in SportPursuit; and investment in Ascenti
- TPG Growth on its investment in Onfido and TPG Tech Adjacencies on its acquisition of a minority stake in ABC Technologies
- PAI Partners on its acquisition of a majority stake in Audiotonix and its acquisition of HKA Global
- Froneri, with PAI, on the $4bn acquisition of Nestlé’s Ice Cream business in the US