Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton litigation partner Jonathan Kelly has spent more than 30 years at the coalface of U.K. commercial litigation disputes. He joined the U.S. firm’s London office from Simmons & Simmons in 2010.

He is regarded as one of the country’s top banking litigation lawyers and his clients have included the likes of Goldman Sachs, UBS, BNP Paribas, the Russian Federation and several sovereign wealth funds.