Lawyers in England

James Fry

I specialise in all aspects of commercial real estate with a particular expertise in the hotel and leisure sectors. I am passionate about the built environment, design, sustainability as well as the economics of real estate as an investment. I had no hesitation in specialising in this fascinating and ever changing sector on qualifying over twenty years ago. Whilst I consider myself adaptable with the skill set and experience I have gained, I have a focus on hotels and hotel development and I act for a number of hotel owner-operators (both brand franchised and independent), investors and developers on all real estate related issues including acquisitions and disposals, development, funding, structuring and corporate support.

Fladgate LLP

James Fry

James is head of Mills & Reeve's fast growing multi-disciplinary life sciences team.

Mills & Reeve LLP

James Fulforth

James is Senior Partner of Kingsley Napley.

Kingsley Napley LLP

James Gill

I have the privilege of Co-Heading our brilliant Digital, Commerce and Creative team! Our team focus is on those businesses who are at the intersection of technology, science and the creative world. I work with brands and large corporates on their technology, commercial, consumer, regulatory, IP and data needs, providing transactional support, strategic advice, and thought leadership. My clients span a range of sectors, including those in technology, retail, luxury brands, financial services, advanced manufacturing and supply chain. I specialise in high value and strategic projects, with a focus on three core areas: technology, digital and innovation; consumer goods / services and platforms; and complex commercial contracts.

Lewis Silkin

James Goff

City-trained James is a senior solicitor specialising in bridging finance, short-term property finance (i.e. remortgages) and wider commercial property transactions. James notably acted as the sole legal adviser for a lender providing a £6mio facility, funding the launch of a new TVR sports car. For over ten years, James has advised a wide range of clients including both large and small businesses on buying, selling, and leasing property of all types (from industrial estates to offices) and on commercial leases, acquisitions, management, and disposals. He has previously acted for the likes of Valad and Workspace in addition to fund managers, property companies, and institutional investors. He has also worked in-house managing all the legal issues for one of the UK’s leading property investors.

Keystone Law

James Gordon

Partner

Gordons Partnership 2020 Limited

James Gratton

Senior Associate

Hugh James

James Green

Partner

Burges Salmon LLP

James Greenslade

Senior Associate. Advising on all production, finance and distribution arrangements within the film and TV industries.

Simons Muirhead Burton

James Greig

James is head of the Wills, probate, tax and trusts team based in the Thames Valley. He specialises in trusts and high end probate and inheritance tax planning. James main areas of expertise are: Wills, probate and powers of attorney, Section 11 IHTA Maintenance Trusts, the creation, administration, restructuring and termination of Trusts, Will structuring and planning for business owners and Inheritance Tax planning.

Blake Morgan LLP

James Griffiths

Partner

Nockolds Solicitors

James Grigg

Partner, Head of Family Team.

HCR Law

James Grinstead

James is an experienced construction and engineering law specialist, with a practice in both contentious and non-contentious matters spanning almost 10 years. James has extensive experience drafting and negotiating JCT, NEC and bespoke construction contracts relating to large-scale UK and international developments and infrastructure projects. He regularly advises clients on risk allocation, contract negotiations and amendments, procurement and ancillary security documents such as collateral warranties, performance bonds and insurance aspects. James has particular experience in matters concerning building safety, having led numerous complex disputes on behalf of claimant owners, landlords, and contractors. He is also well-versed in disputes involving delay, disruption, defective works, quantum claims (including interim and final account disputes), and wrongful termination. James has strong knowledge and experience of all forms of ADR, including adjudication, arbitration, mediation, expert determination, commercial negotiations, pre-action work, and High Court litigation. James’ clients include employers, developers, contractors, sub-contractors, specialist construction consultants, government bodies, registered providers of social housing, and high-net-worth clients.

Keystone Law

James Gutteridge

Bevan Brittan LLP

James Haikney

James is a commercial and projects lawyer, working in the green energy sector for almost 10 years across technologies including wind, solar, and green hydrogen. James spent three years in-house before returning to practice with Shoosmiths, and provides clear, to-the-point advice focussed on his clients’ objectives and commercial “big picture”. James advises widely on all commercial matters, including B2B and B2C commercial contract terms, and has experience delivering critical commercial contracts for green energy clients at critical stages of the realisation of new capital projects, including: manufacturing (including TSAs, EPCs, and electrolyser supply contracts) maintenance (both long and short term, whether or not supported by performance guarantees) energy offtake (including on- and off-site PPAs and hydrogen fuel offtake agreements) strategic partnerships (including commercial partnership agreements, framework contracts, joint ventures, and transitional services) James also advises on legal compliance and matters of energy regulation related to businesses in the green energy space. James joined Shoosmiths after working for three years as senior legal counsel at ITM Power, the Sheffield-based AIM-listed manufacturer of green hydrogen electrolysers. Over three years in-house James advised the business on key sale, maintenance, and supply contracts, and provided legal support on key strategic projects, including the establishment of a hydrogen mobility joint venture as well as three complex equity investment rounds totalling almost £500m.

Shoosmiths LLP

James Hall

Senior Solicitor

Birketts LLP

James Hallas

James is a partner in the projects, development and construction team and co-chair of the firm’s ESG/sustainability sector group. He specialises in non-contentious work. As well as expertise across the full spectrum of construction and development, James has particular knowledge of the renewable energy, sustainability, housing and accommodation and care sectors. He works with clients to achieve commercial, real world outcomes and is experienced in negotiating both standard forms of contract including the JCT, FIDIC, NEC and RIBA suites of documents and bespoke agreements. James is also experienced in drafting and negotiating complex engineering contracts linked to infrastructure and energy generation. James has acted on large-scale, mixed commercial and residential, hotel, university and student accommodation schemes as well as hospital projects and care schemes.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

James Hardaker

Partner advising on onshore and offshore trust structures, succession planning, general UK tax planning, cross-border estates and employee benefit trusts.

Stevens & Bolton LLP

James Hardy

James is a corporate and commercial lawyer with 20 years’ experience in public and private mergers, acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, private equity and corporate finance. James specialises in corporate finance work, acting for both companies and brokers, and advising on public company takeovers and mergers, private acquisitions and disposals, AIM and full listings, corporate restructuring, and general corporate matters. James acts for clients across a large variety of sectors, including media and entertainment, renewable energy, property investment funds, venture capital trusts, retail, industrial and financial services. After spending ten years at Freshfields, James moved into partnership roles at mid-City and West End firms before joining Newlawslegal, which merged with Acuity Law in 2018. He also worked for Simpson Thacher in New York. Expertise: Public and private mergers, acquisitions and disposals (domestic [UK and US] and cross-border) AIM listings and secondary fundraisings Joint ventures and shareholder arrangements Private equity and venture capital Corporate reorganisations, demergers and share buybacks General corporate, corporate finance, commercial, corporate governance

Acuity Law

James Harman

James is a partner in the commercial group and specialises in entertainment industry work. His expertise includes recording, publishing and all other types of talent contracts. He has strong know-how in book publishing work and non-contentious intellectual property law, including advice on copyright, passing off and a variety of copyright-based commercial contracts such as merchandising contracts. James regularly advises clients on publishing, recording, management, merchandising and joint venture agreements. Focusing his practice on the music and entertainment business, James acts for a number of high-profile songwriters, artist managers, jazz, pop and rock acts, authors, publishers and record labels.

Simkins LLP

James Harmer

Partner

Hill Dickinson LLP

James Harris

James is a Consultant Partner in Acuity’s Real Estate team. He specialises in all aspects of non-contentious commercial property matters. James acts for a wide variety of clients including landlords, tenants, HNW investors (both UK and offshore), developers, schools, national charities and finance providers on a wide range of property transactions. His experience includes freehold and leasehold acquisitions and disposals, leases, property management, development option and promotion agreements and secured lending for clients within the retail, investment, charity, sport and development sectors. He also provides support on property aspects of corporate mergers and acquisitions. James trained at Ashfords in Bristol and was a partner at Russell-Cooke in London. Expertise: Acquisitions and disposals Property development projects Portfolio management Charity property work Secured lending Corporate support

Acuity Law

James Harrison

James is a partner in the commercial dispute resolution team. He is an experienced commercial litigator dealing with corporate dispute resolution, whether by formal court/arbitration proceedings or alternative dispute resolution. He has a particular specialism in director and shareholder disputes, often involving a restructuring element. He also works on a wide range of other disputes including banking, breach of warranty and general contractual issues, spread over broad industry sectors including property, general retail and banking. As a result of his role as chair of the Multilaw Young Lawyers Group, he spends considerable time on international matters.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

James Hart

Property development with particular emphasis on major projects. In recent years James has acted in some of the largest urban regeneration projects in the country, including in Solihull, Leeds, Derby and Greater London. In acting for private residential and commercial developers, public authorities, funders and housing associations James has developed a holistic understanding of major project and development work and regularly advises upon joint venture and structural agreements, site assembly, development agreements, overage, conditional contracts and options, infrastructure and funding arrangements. Recent projects include: major schemes to regenerate 1970s housing stock in Solihull and Greater London; the £70m extension of Touchwood Shopping Centre for the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; and a large-scale transfer of New Town legacy assets from the HCA to Milton Keynes Council, in which James headed the 25-strong project team representing the Council and its LLP subsidiary which acquired the majority of the assets in a pioneering use of local authority-controlled companies. James is also advising Bedford Borough Council on several significant development and disposal projects in the borough along with existing clients such as Halton Borough Council, Bassetlaw District Council, Nottinghamshire County Council and the London Borough of Havering on a range of property acquisition, management and disposal projects. For Derby City Council he has advised on the property aspects of a major, 30-year LLP joint venture proposed to be entered into with a private sector partner to transform a deprived inner-city neighbourhood through housing regeneration, and for the past ten years James has been closely advising Bellway Homes Limited in the highly successful public-private housing regeneration scheme covering four wards in the north of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull.

Freeths LLP