Jonathan B. Ross Joins Reed Smith’s New York Financial Industry Group

(May 24, 2010, New York, NY) - Reed & Smith has announced that Former Dorsey & Whitney finance lawyer Jonathan B. Ross has joined the firm's Finance and Investment Management practice within its New York Financial Industry Group.

Mr. Ross is admitted as a lawyer in New York, the United Kingdom and Ireland. He has more than a decade of experience advising in connection with capital markets products including corporate, securitized and high yield bonds, as well as offshore private funds, UCITS funds, collateralized and cross-border financings and distressed asset scenarios. Mr. Ross has practiced in London, New York and Paris and advises U.S. and international clients across asset classes, industries and geographical regions, including the U.S., Europe and Latin America

In 2006 Mr. Ross was seconded to The Bank of New York Mellon, where he headed a team conducting the legal due diligence of JPMorgan's EMEA corporate trust and custody business. Prior to that, he was an associate at Emmet, Marvin & Martin LLP, where he provided expertise in connection with UK and European finance transactions for U.S.-based clients, and White & Case LLP, where he developed a London based corporate trustee group. Mr. Ross also spent time as a secondee with Merrill Lynch's debt capital markets transactions desk, covering bond programs, including during the Argentine economic crisis of 2001.

Mr. Ross graduated in 1996 from Oxford University and holds a BA (Honors) and also received an MA in Jurisprudence there.  In 1998, he received a Diploma in Legal Practice (commendation) from The College of Law in York, England. 

Reed Smith is a global relationship law firm with nearly 1,600 lawyers in 22 offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.  Founded in 1877, the firm represents international businesses, from Fortune 100 corporations to mid-market and emerging enterprises.  Its lawyers provide litigation and other dispute resolution services in multi-jurisdictional and other high-stakes matters; deliver regulatory counsel; and execute the full range of strategic domestic and cross-border transactions.  Reed Smith advises several industries, including financial services, life sciences, health care, advertising, technology and media, shipping, energy trade and commodities, real estate, manufacturing, and education.