Jonathan Huth

Jonathan focuses on cross-border investigations, disputes, judgment enforcement, asset recovery, financial crime and whistleblowing, and regulatory enforcement matters for clients based in the Middle East, US, UK, Europe, and Africa. His clients include high net worth private clients, sovereign governments, corporations, well-known C-suite executives in East Africa and the Middle East, as well as individuals in the global financial services sector in the EU, UK and US. These matters often involve a serious reputation management component. Jonathan has extensive knowledge of the financial sector, with experience in handling matters related to financial fraud and market misconduct, bribery and corruption, money laundering and other financial crimes. His professional background is varied – prior to his time in private practice, Jonathan was a senior in-house counsel at HSBC in London in the global investigations group and previously served as a Senior Trial Attorney in the Enforcement Division at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission where he prosecuted benchmark manipulation including LIBOR and foreign exchange trading.

Jonathan is uniquely positioned as a US-qualified lawyer to bridge the gap between US-facing regulatory and due diligence matters and those involving high-risk jurisdictions in emerging markets in the Middle East and Africa.

Leveraging his experience from government, private practice, in-house corporate counsel roles, Jonathan has successfully represented clients across multiple jurisdictions in complex cross-border investigations and disputes involving high value exposure and reputation conerns, allegations of financial crime and fraud. In this capacity, he has worked alongside regulators globally, including the U.S. Department of Justice, the UK's Serious Fraud Office, and the Financial Conduct Authority, Financial Services Agency of Japan, Monetary Authority of Singapore, and regulators throughout Europe. Jonathan partners with his clients as a trusted advisor, offering a business approach to solving complex problems by deploying creative legal and non-legal solutions.

• Acting for over a dozen individuals at a global financial institution located in Europe and the UK in connection with a market manipulation investigation in the intermediary space with US authorities.
• Acting for a C-suite individual located in Oman in connection with allegations of internal financial misconduct with multiple government authorities in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe.
• Acting for a C-suite individual in connection with allegations of bribery, corruption, internal misconduct and a commercial shareholder dispute against a well-known media conglomerate and cross-border government authorities in the UK and Africa.
• Acting for well-known trading platform on a variety of products and asset classes in connection with an investigation into stablecoins and cryptocurrency with US regulatory authorities.
• Acting for a high net worth individual involved in a shareholder dispute in connection with allegations of financial crime, bribery and corruption, tax fraud spanning multiple off-shore jurisdictions, Europe, and Africa.
• Acting for a high net worth C-suite individual located in the UAE for allegations of internal misconduct, whistleblowing, and financial crime with government authorities in the UK and Asia.