Top Rated Business & Corporate Attorney in Elmhurst, IL

Honors/Awards

• Avvo Clients Choice – 2015-2020
• Avvo 10.0 Rating – 2016-2020 
• Super Lawyer - Rising Star– 2016-2020
• Thomson Reuters – Lead Counsel – 2016-2020

Bar/Professional Activity

• American Bar Association   
• Illinois
• Chicago Bar Association
• Illinois State Bar Association
• United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
• United States Tax Court
• United States Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Illinois
• United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Educational Background

• B.A., Washington & Jefferson College 
• Psychology, University of Moscow
• J.D., Western Michigan University

Verdicts/Settlements

• Plaintiff is the creator of a highly complex and confidential proprietary trading model that implements select market strategies and executes trades on a high frequency basis. Plaintiffs involvement with Defendant began in 2005 during a phone call and grew to a partnership fostered during 2006. The partnership was founded in order to utilized the prop trading model under the terms that Plaintiff and Defendant would split any profits, that Plaintiff would be 'controller'/trading model programmer/inventor, and that Defendants role would be to bring in a steady stream of clients. While both Plaintiff and Defendant did in fact play those roles within the framework of the partnership, Defendant - outwardly to clients - denied Plaintiffs involvement in any facet of the creation or implementation of the trading model. Moreover, Defendant fraudulently and intentionally withheld client funds and partnership profits due and owing to Plaintiff. In an attempt to further alienate the Plaintiff from the trading community, the Defendant made multiple defamatory and false remarks in regard to Plaintiff as a ploy in order to push Plaintiff out of the partnership and retain rights to the trading model. As a result of the above stated actions, Plaintiff sustained significant and life-altering damage to his professional and personal lives. But for the actions of the Defendant, witnesses testified during trial that today’s valuation of the partnerships business portfolio would exceed a quarter billion dollars. Hart & David LLP, led by partner Jonathan D. Herpy, achieved a $13,900,000.00 settlement in favor of the Plaintiff., 2014
• After months of highly contested negotiation, client was the recipient of a large trust due to the showing of services/aid rendered during the life of the deceased. Attorney Jonathan D. Herpy was able to negotiate an $850,000.00 settlemnet for his client., 2014

Transactions

• Negotiated merger between major education-sector tech companies Modern Teacher LLC and digedu Enterprises LLC. See https://goo.gl/d3jDVU Modern Teacher is an educational media company designed to support teachers and maximize teaching effectiveness in the digital world, while digedu partners with schools and districts to deliver a comprehensive technology program that meaningfully enhances teaching and learning. The result of the merger is an educational juggernaut within the Chicago community. Both sides saw the same goal in mind and sincerely focused on reimagining the end-user experience as it relates to the student. It is not an exaggeration to say that this merger should effect the way teachers teach and students learn for generations to come. Attorney Jonathan D. Herpy was able to negotiate and settle a full-scale merger within 60 days of initial client intake., 2015