Jonathan Doorley is a Partner and Head of New York, overseeing the growth and operations of Brunswick’s largest office in the Americas with more than 250 team members.

He leads the firm’s global Financial practice, advising Boards and management teams across sectors on media, investor and stakeholder relations programs related to mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism and other capital markets matters. In the first half of 2024, the practice advised on 155 transactions worth $280 billion and counseled corporate issuers on 17 publicly disclosed activist defense engagements with an aggregate market cap of $341 billion.

Jonathan is frequently cited as an industry leader, recently named by Mergerlinks as a “Top M&A PR Consultant in North America” (2023, 2022, 2021), by Insider as a “Top 15 Financial PR Pros” (2020) and included on the Observer’s “PR Power List” (2023).

Prior to joining Brunswick in 2017, Jonathan was a Partner and member of the Management Committee at Sard Verbinnen & Co, a strategic communications firm now part of FGS Global. Over 11 years with that firm, he was originally based in New York before launching and serving as Co-Head of the London office.

He holds an M.B.A. from The University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and a B.A. from Wake Forest University. He is a member of Harvard Law School’s Corporate Governance Roundtable Advisory Council.