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Jonathan is Head of the Firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group and is a Partner in the Sports and Media Practice Group.

Jonathan regularly advises clients on the strategic protection and commercialization of their intellectual property rights, ensuring adequate protection of their intellectual property so as to facilitate the commercial exploitation of their intellectual property in Singapore and abroad. His other areas of expertise include information technology (software development and licensing) and transfer of technology (technology licensing and technical assistance). He recently advised on a loan facility where production rights were utilised (for the first time ever in Singapore) as security for the loan facility in relation to the production of the television animation series entitled "Wolverine" for Marvel Characters Inc.

Jonathan has also successfully developed a niche practice in the area of sports and media law. His clients include prominent local and overseas production houses. In the course of acting for clients in the media industry, he has regular dealings with the Media Development Authority of Singapore.

Jonathan is one of the co-authors of the Singapore Forms and Precedents volume on Media published by Butterworths. He is active in the Licensing Executives Society of Singapore (having served in the Executive Committee for two terms), the Asian Patent Attorneys Association and the International Trademark Association and has been recommended for franchise work in Who’s Who Legal.

Jonathan was called to the Singapore Bar in 1990.

 
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