Jonathan Cotton

• T   +44 (0)20 7090 4090 (Direct line)
• E  jonathan.cotton@slaughterandmay.com

• London 
• One Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8YY

Jonathan has acted on major multi-jurisdictional disputes and investigations across a range of business sectors, including investment banking and investment management, telecoms, natural resources and fast-moving consumer goods. He is particularly interested in corporate criminal liability and contentious restructuring/insolvency. He often advises on contentious aspects of corporate transactions, including takeovers. He is the partner responsible for the court aspects of schemes, both under the Companies Act and transfers under Part VII of FSMA.

Highlights include advising:

• a number of listed clients on corruption and sanctions problems, including conducting investigations and advising on their self-reporting obligations and potential criminal and civil liability. He has also advised many clients on their approach to anti-corruption compliance including, most recently, the Bribery Act 2010 as well as on issues arising under the Fraud Act, the Proceeds of Crime Act and various sanctions and export control regimes
• Cable & Wireless Communications plc in defeating claims originally alleged to have been for £300 million brought by its Caribbean competitor, Digicel.  Digicel alleged that C&W had conspired to delay its entry to the Caribbean telecoms markets. After a trial spanning a seven month period in the English High Court, the claims were dismissed with the substantial majority of the costs of C&W’s successful defence awarded on the enhanced "indemnity" basis
• Cadbury plc in connection with a variety of contentious matters arising in the context of the bid by Kraft
• Cable & Wireless plc in its successful summary judgment application against former investors who sought damages for allegedly misleading statements made to the market (Hall v Cable & Wireless plc  [2009] EWHC 1793 (Comm)). This is one of the few judgments in the UK to consider the scope of potential claims by investors in listed companies

Jonathan is named as a leading individual for Dispute Resolution in Chambers UK 2011, and recommended for Corporate Crime by The Legal 500 2011. He collaborated with Richard Lissack QC on the 'adequate procedures' chapter in Lissack and Horlick on Bribery (2011).