Lawyers in Wales
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James Shawe
Legal Director
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
James Trafford
Partner
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
James Vaughan
James is a Legal Director in the Corporate team, based primarily in our Cardiff office. James specialises in a wide range of corporate transactions including mergers, acquisitions and disposals, management buy-outs, private equity and venture capital investments, corporate restructurings, joint venture agreements and general corporate advisory and governance matters. James acts for various banks, funders, investors and shareholders, owner-managed businesses, SMEs and large corporates in respect of a wide variety of transactions.
Blake Morgan LLP
James Williams
James is a partner in the Corporate team in South Wales with extensive corporate transactional experience. James specialises in mergers, acquisitions and disposals, management buy-outs and buy-ins, private equity and venture capital transactions. He regularly advises clients on an array of general company law matters, such as corporate governance and compliance issues, reorganisations, joint venture and shareholder issues, including agreements and disputes.
Blake Morgan LLP
James Williams
James is an experienced construction solicitor. He qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales in 1999. After working for a leading firm in Birmingham, he emigrated to Australia and qualified as a solicitor in Queensland in 2003, working in both Brisbane and Sydney. In 2008, James relocated to the Middle East and worked at a major law firm in the United Arab Emirates and at one of the region’s Government backed master developers. He returned to his native Wales in 2014 and was a partner at Acuity Law in Cardiff. James joined Clarke Willmott in October 2024 and has been ranked both in Chambers and in the Legal 500. How James can help you James specialises in non contentious construction matters, largely related to city regeneration, and has worked on various developments comprising, office blocks, apartments, hotels and sports stadia. James has experience of working with standard form building contracts such as the JCT and NEC suites and, through his time in the Middle East, has extensive experience of working with the FIDIC contracts. James also has significant experience of acting for banks and funds providing development finance and has also acted on numerous residential development projects. James has extensive experience of drafting and negotiating development agreements, building contracts, consultant appointments, collateral warranties and other related documents including, for example, letters of intent and letters of reliance. James also has extensive experience of acting for banks providing finance for construction projects and has worked on numerous funded developments in Wales and further afield. Experience James’s recent reported cases: Acting on behalf of a developer in respect of the development of a new Welsh headquarters for a national broadcaster comprising new offices, television and radio studios and a roof garden. The project had a construction cost of circa £60 million. Acting on behalf of the developer of a new mixed use transport interchange in Cardiff containing various sections comprising an office block, a residential apartment tower, a bus station with an external turning and parking apron and commercial space with a value of circa £100,000,000. Acting on behalf of a Cardiff based developer in respect of the refurbishment of the old Post Office in Cardiff and its reconfiguration, extension and conversion into the city’s newest 4 star hotel. The value of the project was circa £40,000,000. Acting on behalf of a Cardiff based developer in respect of the design and construction of Wales’ largest office block with a build value of circa £60,000,000. Acting on behalf of a Welsh Housing Association in the design and construction of a new build residential apartment block in Swansea with a value of circa £30,000,000. Acting for a sub-contractor and advising on the sub-contract terms and conditions in relation to a sub-contract package for the construction of the new national stadium for the English Football Association in Wembley, North London; Drafting and negotiating a design and build contract based on the 1999 FIDIC Yellow Book for the design and construction of a marina to be built by one of Dubai’s master property developers. Acting on behalf of one of Wales’s largest funding institutions in respect of a circa £75,000,00 development facility in respect of the construction of approximately 800 new homes in Cardiff.
Clarke Willmott LLP
Janet Morgan
Senior Associate
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Janet Price
Legal Director
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Janice Powell
Janice is a partner in our Litigation & Dispute Resolution team and a member of ACTAPS, the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists. She is also a member of the Property Litigation Association. She is a highly experienced litigation specialist, having headed commercial litigation and dispute resolution teams at prominent firms in Cardiff and London. Janice is an expert in contentious probate issues, including Inheritance Act claims, trust disputes, property disputes, professional negligence, contractual, and company disputes. She has extensive experience of High Court and County Court proceedings, together with mediation, arbitration, adjudication and other alternative dispute resolution procedures. She represents business and individual clients across a full range of sectors. Prior to her return to Wales, Janice practised in London for over two decades. Outside of the law, Janice enjoys cultural and heritage visits, hiking, long walks on the beach and running. She is also an afficionado of the karaoke machine, where her specialty is the Abba and 1970s disco back catalogue. Expertise: Commercial litigation and dispute resolution Contentious probate issues Inheritance Act claims Trust disputes Removal of Executors and Trustees Proprietary Estoppel Claims against attorneys involving financial abuse Property disputes Professional negligence Contractual disputes Company disputes
Acuity Law
Jared Ursell
Jared is a senior associate and has experience in all forms of general commercial and corporate disputes. In particular, he has worked on a number of high-value professional negligence, breach of contract, and director and shareholder disputes. He also regularly acts for insolvency practitioners, including in claims against former directors. Jared has experience in both the High Court and Court of Appeal. Expertise: Director and shareholder disputes Professional negligence claims Breach of contract disputes Insolvency disputes Banking disputes
Acuity Law
Jean-Pascal Boutin
Partner
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Jeff Jones
Head of Agile Compliance
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Jennifer Butcher
Jennifer leads Acuity’s Property Litigation team. Having joined Acuity from a major, tier 1-ranked regional firm in 2020, she has grown the property litigation team and was promoted to Senior Partner in 2022. She handles a considerable caseload, including complex and high-value claims and is recognised by both The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners for her prowess in property litigation. Jennifer specialises in a wide range of complex commercial and residential property litigation, including regularly advising landlords and tenants (individual, corporate and public bodies) in relation to retail, office, industrial, residential and mixed-use premises. She also represents property developers in connection with complex disputes surrounding acquisition, development and sale of freehold land, and has experience of advising banking clients regarding management of property portfolios and property disputes arising through the administration of estates. Jennifer regularly acts for management company clients in relation to high-value latent defect claims (including a large number of non-complaint fire-safety disputes post-Grenfell) against developers and insurers. She also advises social housing clients in relation to various housing management issues, as well as their commercial property matters. Expertise: Landlord and tenant – lease renewals, dilapidations, forfeitures, easements, rent reviews Option agreements Boundary disputes Adverse possession Possession proceedings
Acuity Law
Jennifer Pinder
Senior Associate
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Jenny Thompson
Principal Associate
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Jessica Wilson
Associate
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Joanna Corbett-Simmons
Joanna is a Senior Associate in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution team in Cardiff specialising in corporate and shareholder disputes, professional negligence and contentious intellectual property matters. Joanna has a broad range of experience in general commercial and civil claims and specialist knowledge of post-completion disputes (principally claims for breach of warranty, restrictive covenants and expert determinations of deferred consideration payments), shareholder disputes, professional negligence (principally against legal or financial advisors) and contentious intellectual property matters (including trademark and design right infringement).
Blake Morgan LLP
Joanna Rees
Jo has worked closely with developers, government and public sector teams and contractors dealing with all aspects of construction projects from project tender through the build phase, managing risk issues and resolving disputes by ADR, adjudication, mediation or litigation when required.
Blake Morgan LLP
Joanna Smye
Associate
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Joanne Canning
Partner
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Joanne Davies
Jo is a partner in the Employment, Pensions and Immigration group. She provides general employment advice from our Cardiff office. Jo’s work includes maternity rights, discrimination issues, sickness absence, non-performance, gross misconduct and new areas of employment law. She also specialises in advising on employment issues arising out of large scale procurements, outsourcing, commercial contracts, mergers, acquisitions and post-acquisition integration and is an expert on advising in relation to TUPE issues.
Blake Morgan LLP
Joanne Thompson
Joanne is a Partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Team based in Cardiff, specialising in procurement challenges, public inquiries, commercial and contractual disputes, post-completion and corporate disputes, professional negligence and partnership disputes.
Blake Morgan LLP
Jodie Stewart
Senior Associate
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Joe Geen
Associate
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
Joe Kelly
Associate
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP