Jonathan brings more than 18 years of insolvency and asset recovery experience across the UK and Australia, specializing in complex cross-border personal and corporate insolvencies, fraud investigations and asset tracing and recovery matters. He is a licensed insolvency practitioner in England & Wales, Cyprus and the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) in Kazakhstan.
Prior to joining Kroll, Jonathan served as Director in the Contentious Insolvency and Asset Recovery team at Interpath. Before that, he held a similar role at Grant Thornton, advising creditors, officeholders, government agencies and other stakeholders on contentious insolvency matters and international asset recovery strategies.
Jonathan has acted on a wide range of high-profile and complex engagements involving distressed businesses, fraud-related asset recovery, cryptocurrency disputes, bankruptcies and corporate insolvencies. He works closely with legal advisors and multidisciplinary teams to develop and implement recovery strategies designed to enforce judgments, arbitral awards and high-value unsecured claims across multiple jurisdictions.
His notable engagements include serving as Joint Administrator and subsequently Joint Liquidator of an international telecommunications wholesaler with reported annual turnover exceeding US$650 million and creditor shortfalls of approximately US$80 million; Joint Liquidator of one of the UK’s largest demolition businesses with creditor claims exceeding £60 million; Trustee in Bankruptcy of Dimitrios Somovidis, with creditors owed more than £15 million; Trustee in Bankruptcy of Anatoly Motylev, with claims exceeding £600 million; and Trustee in Bankruptcy of Boris Berezovsky, whose creditors were owed approximately £350 million. He has also acted as Joint Liquidator of multiple cryptocurrency businesses and advised government agencies on international asset recovery initiatives.
Jonathan is a Chartered Accountant (CA ANZ) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). He is recognized as an Asset Recovery expert by Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) and is a Fellow of the International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators.