Jonathan Silver

Jonathan has worked with clients operating in most business sectors including financial services, international trade, FMCG, energy, construction, transportation and commodities. He has led numerous transaction teams; assisting clients navigate the regulatory complexities of multi-jurisdictional transactions across the Middle East and Africa.

Jonathan was a partner in Clyde & Co from 1989, when his own practice merged with Clyde & Co until earlier this year when he became a Consultant to the Firm. He founded, chaired for over 15 years and remains a member of what is now the Firm’s MEA Regional Management Board and served for 11 years on the Firm’s Global Management Board. At the time of the merger, in 1989, Clyde & Co’s operation in the region comprised four lawyers. Since then, Jonathan has been instrumental in developing a leading Middle East and Africa regional practice delivering legal services to the highest professional standard to clients from inside and outside the region with more than 85 partners, over 270 legal professionals and more than 540 employees in total working in 9 offices in the Middle East and Africa.

Jonathan is one of the very few English solicitors who has served as a director of a company listed on The London Stock Exchange and is probably the only solicitor to have chaired the Board of such a company.

Jonathan is Chairman of the Emirates Racing Authority Appeal Panel on which he has served since 2012.