Jonothan Broadbent

Previously at Travers Smith, Mishcon de Reya and Hausfeld, Jonothan spent 12+ years in private practice advising all kinds of businesses on their litigation, from household names such as Breville, Sainsbury’s and Microsoft, to SMEs and one-person founder businesses. Whether it’s navigating a pre-action settlement or taking a case to trial, his approach is to offer straightforward advice that aligns with his clients’ commercial goals.

Jonothan’s litigation advisory practice is derived from his unique experience advising on the largest class actions in the UK, and working extensively with litigation funders, insurers and other law firms to investigate, structure, secure funding for and filing new claims. He advises various stakeholders on the entire life-cycle of the claims, from helping litigation funders to understand their investment and portfolio risk in a potential new claim, to acting as an independent advisor to class representatives or assisting law firms with case-structuring including case workup, merits, funding and insurance packages.

Jonothan qualified as a solicitor in 2012 and has worked in a mix of large City law firms, national firms and market-leading boutique litigation practices. His career has focussed exclusively on dispute resolution, from multi-billion-pound complex High Court litigation to smaller County Court proceedings. He has extensive experience in commercial litigation and competition litigation, and has developed specialist expertise in group litigation and CAT collective proceedings.

His career highlights include advising Sainsbury’s on their competition damages claim against Mastercard for overcharges on card payment fees, advising Microsoft on their damages claim against an alleged global cartel of batteries manufacturers, advising 16,000 individual opt-in Mercedes drivers in their claims against Mercedes for alleged defeat devices in their vehicles, and advising Nikki Stopford in her £7 billion opt-out collective proceedings against Google for abuse of dominance, on behalf of the entire UK population. Along the way he has advised various smaller businesses on contract disputes, negligence, director’s duties, shareholder disputes, intellectual property disputes, debt recovery, defamation on social media, and even a nuisance claim for a farming client involving damage caused by stray peacocks, among others.

Outside of law, Jonothan enjoys travel and exploration, having taken time off throughout his career to visit different countries. He enjoys playing lots of different sports, he also plays piano and reads all kinds of crime fiction.