Jonathan Cope

Managing Counsel, Group Legal, RSA Group

Jonathan Cope is Managing Counsel, Group Legal at RSA Insurance Group plc, the international FTSE 100 insurance group.  Jonathan advises the group’s senior executive leadership on key legal, regulatory and business issues, and reports to the Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary.  He has worked at RSA since 2013 and has experience of all kinds of legal matters relevant to international financial services groups.

Jonathan has played a key role implementing RSA’s recent international disposals as part of its strategic review; he was the lead RSA lawyer on the sales of RSA businesses in 13 countries.  Jonathan spent 18 months working in the Emerging Markets management team alongside the Head of M&A, liaising with regional and country CEOs.

Jonathan qualified as a lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, and spent several years working as a private equity M&A lawyer at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and Weil, Gotshal & Manges in London.  Jonathan is also a qualified company secretary with the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators.