Jonathan Wild

Jonathan Wild heads up our litigation team and deals primarily with large or complex litigious matters, often involving both local and international work.

Jonathan is the Island’s exclusive representative for Fraudnet. Fraudnet is a specialist network of leading fraud and financial crime lawyers worldwide and is a part of the Commercial Crime Services Division of the International Chamber of Commerce.

Jonathan is experienced in obtaining interlocutory relief including freezing orders and disclosure orders, both locally and co-ordinating multi-jurisdictional applications. Jonathan has worked on major cross-border insolvencies; including Savings and Investment Bank, B.C.C.I. and more recently a case which involved the liquidation of Manx companies that were concurrently in “Chapter 11” in the USA, together with the formulation of a scheme of arrangement. Jonathan has also worked on a broad variety of contentious civil cases and has represented the Attorney General, the Isle of Man Government, and the Financial Supervision Commission. He also represents other professionals in defending professional negligence claims.

Jonathan is currently President of the Isle of Man Law Society. Jonathan has acted as Counsel in the following reported cases:

• IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF CUSSONS 2001 – 03 MLR 418 (CHD)
• RE STARVELAKIS 1999 – 01 MLR 668 – A Greek Trust dispute
• KELLY (Assessor of Income Tax) v. HARDMAN 2001 – 03 MLR 248 (SGD)
• ATTORNEY GENERAL’S REFERENCE IN THE MATTER OF GRIFFIN 1996 – 98 MLR 320 (SGD)
• NORLANDS LIMITED v. L. COOK and W. COOK 1999 – 01 MLR 162 (CLD)
• M.A.G. DOWTY and V.A. DOWTY (Trustees of the Will of G.H. DOWTY) v. WILLMAN 2001 – 03 MLR 56 (CHD)
• NORLANDS LIMITED v. L. COOK and W. COOK 1999 – 01 MLR 130 (CLD)
• IN THE MATTER OF FROST 1999 – 01 MLR 501 (SGD)

Reccomendations: Chambers Global : The “exceptional” Jonathan Wild won strong praise from clients for both himself and his litigation team

Legal 500: Quinn Kneale’s ‘solid, able’ Jonathan Wild, ‘a problem when he’s on the other side’, is rated as a strong commercial advocate.

Highly Recommended by Practical Law “Which Lawyer”