Jonathan Garcia

Jonathan is a Partner at ISOLAS with a wealth of experience across the financial services, corporate advisory, regulatory and DLT practice areas.

He specialises in financial services and corporate advisory, while also advising family offices and larger private clients. He has undertaken extensive work on international collective investment schemes, advising on a variety of solutions to an international client base which includes investment managers and banks.

Jonathan has co-authored a number of articles and chapters in high-profile industry publications, such as the U.S. Chamber of Digital Commerce’s ‘Understanding Digital Tokens: Market Overviews, and Proposed Guidelines for Policymakers and Practitioners’ and the Global Legal Insights’ Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Regulations 2023 Regulation and Legal 500 Gibraltar Alternative Investment Funds. He also regularly writes on topical issues relating to collective investment schemes.

As part of his DLT practice, Jonathan continues to advise various blockchain businesses and start-ups on everything from raising finance to obtaining regulatory authorisation for carrying out their business activities.

He participated in the Blockchain Bundesverband (Association for the Promotion of Blockchain Technology in Germany) working group on Token Regulation and was one of the founding members of thinkBLOCKtank, a Luxembourg based non-profit organisation, bringing together some of the most respected Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology experts from more than 15 countries, aiming to provide policy recommendations at an EU and worldwide level which will allow a proper regulated and prosperous ecosystem in regards to Digital Assets.

2016: Partner, ISOLAS

2014: Senior Associate, ISOLAS

2007: Associate, ISOLAS

2006: Associate, Isola & Isola

2006: Called to the Bar of England and Wales and the Gibraltar Bar