Lawyers in England

James Clamp

Partner

Freeths LLP

James Clark

James Clark is a litigator with over 10 years of experience handling complex, high-value commercial disputes, with a particular focus on civil fraud matters. James has a broad practice that includes asset tracing, fraud, contentious insolvency, shareholder disputes, and sanctions. He has significant experience in both obtaining and resisting interim remedies, such as worldwide freezing injunctions and asset disclosure orders. He advises and represents clients in court and arbitral proceedings. Many of James’ cases involve cross-border disputes, and he frequently works with lawyers in other jurisdictions. His recent highlights include representing Mr Oleg Deripaska in the successful defence of committal proceedings and representing one of the world’s largest financial derivatives providers in connection with a multi-jurisdictional fraud dispute.

Quillon Law LLP

James Claughton

Associate

Olliers

James Clewlow

Managing Partner, Head of Real Estate, Head of Healthcare

Cripps

James Cockburn

Senior Associate

Harcus Parker Limited

James Cohen

James is a Partner and Head of our Private Client Department. He specialises in private client work, with particular expertise in advising clients with assets across multiple jurisdictions and navigating complex tax treaties. He describes himself as a “GP of the law,” providing specialist advice while coordinating with other departments to meet clients’ broader needs. His role involves significant project management, ensuring clients receive tailored, responsive support. “Our clients rely on us to resolve their issues, but they also appreciate that we adapt to their preferred way of working while meeting deadlines,” he says. James enjoys the variety of private client work, placing him “at the center of the legal Venn diagram,” working closely with property, corporate, IP, immigration, and litigation teams. He also manages Seddons GSC’s Immigration team. A graduate of Birmingham University (BSc, 2005), James completed his legal training with distinction at the College of Law and qualified in 2009. He joined the firm to specialise in international and private wealth, becoming a Partner in 2015. A qualified Trust and Estates Practitioner (STEP), he has arranged wills and lasting power of attorney for many clients, handling sensitive matters with professionalism and care.

Seddons GSC LLP

James Coles

Browne Jacobson LLP

James Colvin

Partner

DMH Stallard LLP

James Cook

Partner; James has a broad international corporate and commercial practice, advising on public and private M&A activity, joint ventures and equity capital market transactions for listed and unlisted companies alike. He also advises clients on company law and reorganisations, corporate governance and other general advisory matters. James also co-heads the cross-firm Tech practice, with a particular focus on Tech M&A, growth equity fundraising and digital infrastructure.

Slaughter and May

James Cook

James is a Partner experienced in advising a broad variety of clients, from small owner-managed businesses to large corporates, on the full range of corporate matters. He has a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions and in putting in place arrangements between shareholders. James has wide experience of advising on private equity transactions, having acted recently for LDC, Cairngorm Capital, NorthEdge, Enact, Nimbus and NVM. Key recent highlights included having acted for LDC in connection with its investment in Aspire Technology and NVM on its investment in Easby Electronics. Finally, James has lots of experience advising management teams in connection with private equity investment and this year advised the management team of Boxpark in relation to the investment in that business by LDC.

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

James Cowell

Director

Freeths LLP

James Crabtree

James is an established expert in the insurance and reinsurance field, well known for both detailed legal and strategic advice and for effective problem solving. He has advised numerous major participants in the worldwide insurance and reinsurance markets on insurance and reinsurance claims, coverage questions and disputes, and on the contractual terms and conditions of many varieties of insurance and reinsurance cover. He has also advised corporate buyers of insurance on contract terms and conditions and handled claims and coverage disputes. Over the years, his work has entailed dealing with major international market loss events and situations, such as Piper Alpha, Phillips Petroleum, the 2011 Japanese tsunami, the 2011 New Zealand earthquakes and the stream of exposures resulting from asbestos-related diseases and environmental pollution. His work covers both property and liability coverage and he has dealt with complex insurance situations and exposures arising from significant, widely reported events affecting the financial markets, such as the collapse of Barings Bank, the collapse of WorldCom, film finance transactions, the buyback of stock option grants and the Argentine economic crisis of 2002. He advises on the management of insurance and reinsurance portfolios in runoff and has recently advised on contingency planning in preparation for the UK’s exit from the European Union. He also handles contractual disputes in other areas of commerce and has managed substantial High Court litigation, appeal proceedings, arbitration processes and various ADR procedures.

Keystone Law

James Cracknell

Partner, European and UK Patent Attorney

J A Kemp

James Crayton

Partner and Head of Commercial

Walker Morris LLP

James Cross

James is a Partner in the Patents team, a Chartered Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney and Higher Courts Litigator.

Maucher Jenkins

James Cullingworth

James is a Principal Associate in the London real estate team and advises on all aspects of commercial property, including, acquisitions, disposals, lettings and development. James acts for landlords, tenants and developers in a variety of sectors and his recent experience includes: acting for major institutional landlords in relation to industrial, office and retail properties across the UK; acting for a healthcare client on acquisitions, sale and leasebacks and the development of medical centres; and acting on a joint venture for a 160k square metre development in Cheshire.

Shoosmiths LLP

James Daglish

James is a leisure and hospitality sector expert with over 15 years’ experience advising on real estate and licensing matters. His clients include an extensive and wide-range of restaurants, pubs, cafe chains, nightclubs, and investors. James also has substantial experience advising on all alcohol and entertainment licensing matters, and has more recently developed an expertise in the emerging CBD market.

Keystone Law

James Danks

James is a Partner in the Professional Regulatory team with nearly a decade of experience in advising regulators and respondents to disciplinary proceedings. James has extensive experience in advising healthcare regulators in relation to Fitness to Practice, disciplinary matters and investigations into the same including representations before Interim Order Committees in urgent matters. James has also considerable experience in representing Respondents before their regulators, including solicitors, legal executives and accountants, including negotiating settlements to avoid disciplinary proceedings. He has also been retained to draft responses to the Information Commissioner regarding DPA breaches and has advised corporate clients as to their responsibilities and repercussions of the Bribery Act 2012. James predominantly manages proceedings on behalf of the General Dental Council (GDC) including those matters before the Conduct, Health and Performance Committees. In addition, he is also involved with matters involving the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the General Pharmaceutical Society (GPhC). James is also retained by individuals for representation before the Health Care Professional Council (HCPC) and, in the past, by corporations including FTSE-100 companies for bespoke, tailored advice on a case-by-case basis.

Blake Morgan LLP

James Davies

Co-founding the Employment practice at Lewis Silkin in 1992, I have seen it grow from two lawyers (Michael Burd and myself) to nearly two hundred workplace lawyers today. I enjoy a global practice whether working with colleagues at other Lewis Silkin offices or colleagues at Ius Laboris, the international alliance we joined in 2001. I have a particular interest in the future of work and the use of AI in the workplace. Benefitting from having run the employment division of the firm for many years, my work today includes advising other professional services firms on people strategy and issues.

Lewis Silkin

James Davies

James is an experienced family lawyer who often acts in cases of high net value or complexity. He represents all parties experiencing relationship breakdown. James is a Partner and the Family Law Team Leader in our Thames Valley offices. James has specialised in family law since qualification in 2002 and practises primarily in the fields of divorce and financial matters consequent upon divorce. These have often included issues of variation, pension sharing (including armed forces pensions), maintenance and capitalisation and enforcement of such orders. His cases are frequently of significant value. He additionally acts in cases of unmarried families and is adept at dealing with cohabitation disputes including under TOLATA and Schedule 1 Children Act. He also acts in disputes regarding children and their arrangements, including those of complexity or with international issues such as permission to relocate the children’s home or abduction. James acts for all individuals including the owners of owner-managed businesses, company directors, senior executives, members of the professions, those in niche industries and on occasion he has acted for the Official Solicitor.

Blake Morgan LLP

James Dean

James has over 20 years experience advising on all pensions-related matters including pension scheme funding and derisking, bulk annuity transactions, corporate restructurings/M&A and public sector pensions. His clients include sponsoring employers, trustees and pensions administrators. On the M&A front, James has particular expertise advising on cross-border transactions, having recently advised a US based client on a pensions restructuring involving its UK defined benefit pension scheme and in relation to a complex transaction involving entities in the UK, US, Luxembourg and South Korea. James has advised on many pension change projects over the years, including closures to new members and to accrual as well as benefit changes.

Freeths LLP

James Dinwiddy

Partner

Birketts LLP

James Douglass

James is a highly experienced energy and infrastructure lawyer with a focus on complex, high-value projects across a range of sectors and environments. He specialises in LNG and energy transition including renewable electricity and gas, hydrogen and battery storage, alongside traditional oil & gas, infrastructure, and resources. James has extensive expertise in project acquisition and development, structuring, joint ventures, governance arrangements, and project contracts, including EPC, O&M, fuel and feedstock supply, and offtake agreements. He also advises on related project financing within the energy, resources, and infrastructure sectors. Throughout his career, James has advised clients across the globe including Europe, Asia, Africa, Russia, Central Asia, the Middle East, the CEE, and Latin America/Caribbean.

Keystone Law

James Down

Partner

Hill Dickinson LLP