Jonathan Wheeler specialises in complex cross-border disputes. He has conducted court proceedings, arbitrations, and mediations on behalf of many international clients. His expertise includes general commercial disputes, international fraud and asset tracing, investigations, international trust litigation, and contentious insolvency.
Mr. Wheeler has worked on a number of high-profile cases. He has recently been acting for a Jersey trust company in a claim arising out of a massive fraud, against a number of defendants worldwide including in the Cayman Islands, America, Switzerland, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. He is currently acting for the liquidators of the Cayman Islands company Saad Investments Company Limited dealing with global banking disputes and other issues worth US$9 billion.
He acted in the U.S. $800 million Grupo Torras action for a member of the Kuwaiti Royal Family in defense of trust assets in the Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Jersey and Switzerland; for a trader in a complex hedge fund dispute in Jersey and Anguilla; and for the liquidators of TPL Limited arising out of the collapse of the Versailles Group.
Mr. Wheeler also acts for all of the major music (and other entertainment) companies, in particular in retail and wholesale administrations, recovering their retention of title property.
Mr. Wheeler was described as "very commercial, very good tactically" in Chambers 2010. Legal 500 UK 2011describes him as "practical, imaginative and very bright" with "a first class brain".
Mr. Wheeler is a Higher Court Advocate.