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James is a Partner in our Company Commercial Department.  Joining us from London James has broad city experience of banking and finance and specialises in real estate finance and leveraged finance.  He has acted for many of the leading providers of senior and mezzanine debt finance.

James acted on the financing of a wide variety of assets - prestige office buildings, portfolios of industrial and retail properties, hotels, cinema complexes and other recreational facilities.  He has also advised lenders and borrowers in connection with funding acquisitions.  He has advised on the majority of financing structures which are commonly used, including acting for agent and arranger banks on syndicated transactions, lenders on bilateral debt, senior, mezzanine and quasi-equity, conduit lenders and loans for ultimate securitisation.  He has acted on loans to all types of borrowers (domestic and overseas) including UK or offshore property companies, investment funds, partnerships, joint ventures and unit trusts.  He has also acted for borrower and corporate clients who need/utilise debt finance in order to operate their businesses - these include developers and managers of retail outlet stores, manufacturers and house builders.

In the 2009 Chambers Guide to the legal profession James is recognised as an Associate to watch in the Banking and Finance field and acknowledged for his "extensive knowledge of the sector".  Market sources also praise James as "a straightforward lawyer who is easy to do a deal with".