Jonathan Stuart Deem

Jonathan has helped us for many years with complex business transactions. He spends the necessary time on critical issues and has the experience to fly through others. He has saved us countless hours and dollars by keeping us one step ahead of our opponents legal team. We owe Jonathan for our bus...iness success and rapid growth.

Jonathan is an excellent person to have on your team. His work ethic is unmatched and his knowledge of the issues is always complete. All of this is great and necessary in a good lawyer, but where Jonathan separates himself from many others is in his service to his clients. He makes me feel as if I a...m his only client. He is immediate in responding to every request I make and always beats the deadlines, with his No. 1 goal always being taking total care of his client. He takes care of almost all of our company's corporate work, is so easy to work with, always LISTENS to my comments and then works with me to figure out what is best for me. Top notch.

I have utilized Mr. Deem on 7-10 corporate engagements over the last 18 months. Each engagement was complex with multiple counter-parties and jurisdictions and included acquisitions, divestitures, public and private refinancings, contract negotiations, and regulatory processes requiring Mr. Deem to ...utilize both his personal expertise as well as liaise with subject matter experts within his firm and outside firms. The four traits Mr. Deem consistently exhibits which keep our firm coming back to him - accuracy, flexibility, responsiveness. and directness. Accuracy -- speaks for itself Flexibility -- lays out a range of options with explanations for the pros and cons of each option from our vantage. Responsiveness -- typically develops a work product in a matter of days where other firms we work with take weeks to formulate a response. Directness -- most firms will not give a straight answer, everything has caveats. Mr. Deem answers in more definitive terms such as "your position affords you x rights, the other side will take y position, and any disagreement will be argued z way with the judge ruling based on ...." We have a great deal of faith in Mr. Deem's counsel and will continue to use his services.

Jonathan has assisted me with various transactional projects over the last 4 years. He is thorough and detailed in his work product; curious (interested in understanding why/how a particular issue impacts the business); and, always meets deadlines. Jonathan has a broad range of expertise and demons...trates excellent judgment, i.e. he knows what he knows and what he doesn't know. He is confident in the areas where he has experience and goes the extra mile to understand areas where he doesn't have prior experience. Best of all, Jonathan is not a typical lawyer. He is a pleasure to work with and a lot of fun.