Jonathan Dawid
Jonathan Dawid is a leading senior junior with a broad based commercial practice, and is also recognised as a leading practitioner in UK and international sanctions law. He appears regularly in the higher courts of England and Wales as well as before arbitral tribunals, and is equally at home leading a team or being led. Recent highlights include acting as lead counsel for the successful respondent in Radisson Hotels APS Danmark v Hayat Otel [2023] EWHC 892 (Comm), at present the leading case on the application of section 73 of the Arbitration Act 1996 to challenges to arbitral awards under section 68 of the same Act, as well as being sole counsel for Hayat Otel in the underlying ICC arbitration. Jonathan is also currently instructed as sole or lead counsel in a number of high profile High Court actions, including Harrington & Charles Trading & Ors v Mehta (US$1bn fraud claim) and Durnont Enterprises v Fazita Investment Ltd & Ors (€100m derivative claim for dishonest conspiracy).
Having practised both at the independent bar and as a partner in a law firm, Jonathan is attuned to the needs of clients and the need for a litigation strategy to serve the client’s broader commercial interest, being praised for his ‘real commercial touch’ and understanding of ‘what clients want and, more importantly, what they should want’ as well as being ‘right up there among the brightest people at the bar’ (Chambers & Partners). The Legal 500 describes him as ‘Phenomenally bright and extremely hard working … a very able senior junior that every big case needs’.