Trusted counsel, decades of experience

Jonathan Brown is a co-founder of Jonathan Law Firm and heads our bank and financial services regulatory practice. He has more than 30 years of experience in representing depository institutions and their holding companies, regulated financial services companies, investment banks and institutional lenders in connection with a broad range of regulatory, transactional matters and compliance.

Jonathan regularly advises financial institutions and boards of directors on mergers and acquisitions and capital-raising activities. He has significant experience representing private equity and other investors in both control and non-control investments in financial institutions and advises some of the largest banks in the United States in the design and development of capital-qualified debt and equity products. Jonathan also represents acquirers of failed institutions from the FDIC and sellers and acquirers of performing and distressed loans and other financial assets.

Jonathan also advises clients — including private fund sponsors, private fund investors, financial services companies, depository institutions and directors and officers — with respect to regulatory compliance issues (including compliance matters relating to the Volcker Rule), enforcement actions, bank insolvency matters and governmental investigations.

Jonathan is a frequent speaker at schools and seminars for bankers, bank counsel, regulators and accountants and has been a visiting lecturer at Chicago-Kent College of Law graduate program in financial services law. He is a member of the ABA's Banking Law Committee and sits on the faculty of the ABA's Banking Law II, a multi-day advanced banking law institute held annually. Fellow faculty members include prominent banking law professors and senior banking regulators, including prior general counsel from the FDIC, the OCC and the Federal Reserve.