James is a Senior Associate advising lenders, corporates and insolvency practitioners across the spectrum of financial distress, from reorganisation, turnaround and restructuring to insolvency.
James regularly advises on directors' duties in the context of doubtful solvency, and acts for administrators and corporates on business sales and acquisitions out of insolvency.
He also specialises in banking facility restructurings and advising on defined benefit pension schemes, particularly Pension Protection Fund entry and the Pensions Regulator's anti-avoidance powers.
Chambers UK 2012 rated James as an "associate to watch".