BIOGRAPHY
Jonathan Brown is a co-founder of Prinslaw Associates 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. Jonathan 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. Jonathan is a member of the ABA’s Banking Law Committee and is a member of the faculty of the ABA’s Banking Law II, a multi-day advanced banking law institute held annually. Other members of the faculty include prominent banking law professors and senior banking regulators including prior general counsel from the FDIC, the OCC and the Federal Reserve.
EDUCATION
DEGREES
University of Paris II (Assas) (DESS Banking and Financial Law)
E.F.B. (Paris Bar)
University of Paris IX (Dauphine) (DEA Business Law)
Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University (Executive Management Program)
University of Western Ontario (LL.B.)
Practices
Our firm represents a variety of business, financial, institutional, and individual clients in a wide range of matters.
Our Banking & Financial Institutions Practice Group regularly counsels financial institutions, banks and bank holding companies, investment banks and investors in capital formation transactions, mergers and acquisitions, complex financings and the design and development of capital-qualified debt and equity securities.
Prinslaw Associates’ lawyers cover the full spectrum of corporate transactions important to businesses in today’s global marketplace. Because of our consistently high volume of complex transactional engagements, we have developed a broad vision of the issues that confront business organizations and an aptitude for developing novel, creative and constructive solutions.
Our Private Investment & Family Office Practice Group draws on Prinslaw Associates’ multidisciplinary experience and thought leadership to deliver best-in-class, bespoke client service to private investors and family offices across the globe.