Jonathan is a legal and business problem solver with thirty years of experience in leadership positions at global law firms and in-house. He is a highly driven and energetic lawyer with in-depth knowledge across multiple industry sectors, including financial services, private funds, life sciences, technology, energy, and real estate. Jonathan is a consummate business and trial attorney, relationship builder, thought leader, and manager. Clients turn to him for the business-focused nature of his advice and his reputation as a tough adversary who keeps his sense of humor in the most challenging of cases. As one prominent client noted, "Jon's qualities and offshore pedigree mean that we consider him a 'go-to' counselor for handling complex offshore fund disputes."

Jonathan has decades of experience at global law firms DLA Piper and Nixon Peabody representing a panoply of global financial players, including offshore liquidators, managers, limited partners and institutional investors in disputes related to hedge, private equity, venture, tax credit and real estate funds, and investment vehicles consisting of any alternative asset classes such as residential and commercial mortgage backed securities, credit default swaps, corporate trusts and collateralized debt obligations. He has extensive experience in the area of private fund disputes, representing a cross-section of the fund industry, including offshore liquidators. Jonathan also has extensive experience in the area of eDiscovery and digital evidence and has represented companies in the financial services, as well as other industry sectors, providing up-to-date, cost-effective data retention and discovery strategies.

Jonathan served in numerous leadership positions at AmLaw 50 law firms. During his time at Nixon Peabody, Jonathan served as Co-Chair for the Complex Commercial Disputes Practice Group consisting of over 180 lawyers across the firm’s global footprint, representing the largest practice group in the firm. Management responsibilities included profit and loss responsibility, marketing and business development activities, talent management, hiring and acquisitions, strategic planning and performance reviews. After transitioning his practice to DLA Piper, one of the largest and most respected law firms in the world, Jonathan created and co-chaired DLA’s Private Funds Dispute Group, an international group of litigation and corporate legal professionals with industry-specific knowledge in the private fund space spanning the firm’s global offices in major financial hubs, including New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Dubai.

After leaving DLA, Jonathan spent more than four years at Delta Capital Partners, a private equity firm specializing in litigation finance. In those years, Jonathan served as a Managing Director and ran both the global origination and the asset management and monetization functions for the fund. As Chief Litigation Officer, Jonathan managed a diverse portfolio of assets consisting of litigation, arbitration, and enforcement actions across numerous industries including financial services, life sciences, energy and natural resources, and technology. In that role, Jonathan managed case portfolios across many geographic regions, as well as cross-border disputes, including the Americas, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Duties included supervising dozens of outside law firms representing both Delta and contractual counterparties overseeing all aspects of legal representation including strategy, collaboration, value assessment, budgeting, and invoice review and approval. While at Delta, Jonathan also served as Global Director of Origination where he oversaw sourcing of deal flow through a global team of originators.

Leveraging decades of law and finance experience, Jonathan founded Sablone Advisory to assist clients with the most intractable problems and issues facing the financial services and legal industries. “At the intersection of law and finance” is not just a slogan, but a practical, commercial approach to legal problem-solving that Jonathan has practiced for decades.