Jonathan Lopian
Call: 1994
Education:MA PhD (Cantab)
Junior Counsel to the Crown
Email: lopian@11sb.com
Tel: 020 7831 6381 (455#)
Jonathan's Clerks
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Profile
Jonathan Lopian practises in corporate and commercial litigation and advisory work and commercial chancery, specialising in:
- Company law
- Partnership law
- Corporate and personal insolvency
- Director disqualification
- Contract
- Commercial fraud
- Asset tracing
- Trusts
- Charities
- Professional negligence
He was awarded a senior scholarship followed by a research scholarship by Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where he took a double First in History and gained his doctorate. He was awarded a Queen Mother's Scholarship by Middle Temple and gained a Distinction in the Diploma in Law at City University, London.
Before coming to the Bar, Jonathan had seven years’ commercial and financial experience first as a corporate finance executive at the leading UK merchant bank Morgan Grenfell specialising in mergers and acquisitions and then as manager of the corporate finance division of the major international corporation Olympia & York, working in New York, Toronto and London.
He was appointed as one of the Junior Counsel to the Crown in 1999 and is currently on the Attorney-General's 'B' Panel.
Jonathan Lopian is recommended in Legal Experts 2010, Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession and Chambers & Partners 2010 as a leading insolvency and chancery treasury counsel barrister:
Jonathan Lopian is "extremely approachable and user-friendly." (Chambers & Partners 2010)
"A clear and compelling advocate who always arrives at court raring to go." (Chambers & Partners 2009)
"A well-regarded Treasury Counsel practitioner, Jonathan Lopian acted for the Secretary of State in the British Coal respiratory disease litigation and represented HMRC in the Farepak Limited administration. Peers describe him as 'a good, forceful litigator.'" (Chambers & Partners 2009)