Jonathan is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Paul Hastings LLP, where he focuses on cross-border compliance, enforcement and disputes. He is a recognised international expert in business and human rights as well as anti-corruption compliance. Most recently, he was the Deputy General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Barrick Gold Corporation. Prior to this, Jonathan was a partner at Steptoe & Johnson LLP, and Deputy Director in the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations. He is a former Bristow Fellow in the Office of the U.S. Solicitor General, and a judicial clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. For the past 19 years he has taught courses related to international humanitarian law at Georgetown University Law Center.
Among his awards and recognitions are the Charles Fahy Award for teaching at Georgetown, and the first U.S. Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Award for Human Rights Law Enforcement. He has repeatedly been recognised by Ethisphere Magazine as one of the world’s leading attorneys in Ethics & Compliance, has been identified by the National Law Journal as a Regulatory & Compliance Trailblazer, was named by The Legal 500 as one of the 100 most influential in-house counsel in both the U.S. and in Canada, and was recognised as one of the top 100 in-house counsel in the world by Legal Era.