Jim Cormack KC
Partner, Head of Risk Advisory Services
Jim was the head of the firmwide Litigation, Regulatory and Tax practice until November 2022 when he was promoted to be Group Head of the Firm’s Risk Advisory Services Group.
Jim's experience
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Acting as counsel for the buyer under a share sale agreement pertaining to a technology consulting business subject to SIAC arbitration. The matter was successfully resolved at mediation in Singapore.
- Singapore
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Advised McCalls Limited in bringing judicial review proceedings before the Court of Session in Scotland against Aberdeen City Council which raised a novel point of law about the statutory duties of roads authorities which had not previously come before the Court. The issue was the extent to which the interests of adjoining properties to the road need to be taken into account.
- United Kingdom
- Retail & Consumer
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Advising Agilisys, an IT systems integrator on the termination of a contract concerned with the supply of ERP and digital portal services to the City of Edinburgh and its subsequent reported litigation against CGI.
- United Kingdom
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Acted as solicitor-advocate for an IT platform provider in the successful defence of a claim made in the Court of Session for breach of contract alleging defects in analysis of requirements and system design.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Acted and appeared for a major electronics business in defending patent entitlement proceedings before the UK Intellectual Property Office.
- Cross-border
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Acted as solicitor-advocate for a global pharmaceuticals business in bringing three claims for invalidity of patents before the Court of Session.
- United Kingdom
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Represented a former director of a technology business in the defence of a claim for breach of fiduciary duty arising from alleged failure to prevent bribery including acting as solicitor-advocate on his behalf in the commercial court of the High Court in London. The matter was successfully resolved for our client at pre-trial mediation.
- United Kingdom
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Advised and represented the directors and shareholders of a downhole technology business in a dispute with fellow shareholders and directors which was successfully resolved at mediation.
- United Kingdom
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Appeared for the Falkland Islands Government as advocate at trial before the Supreme Court in the successful defence of a claim made by Geophysical Service Incorporated relating to alleged rights in seismic data and the exploration licensing regime in the Islands.
- Falkland Islands
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Acted for News Corporation and group companies as Scottish legal adviser on all Scottish civil and criminal aspects of alleged voicemail interception at the former The News of the World and related matters.
- United Kingdom
- Technology, Science & Industry
Credentials
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2018Appointed Queen's Counsel in Scotland
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2017Became Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
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2006Qualified – England & Wales
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2001Joined Pinsent Masons
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1996Faculty of Advocates, Advocate
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1993Qualified - Scotland
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1991Edinburgh University – Dip LP
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1990Edinburgh University – LLB (Hons)
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