James Williams > JMW Solicitors LLP > Manchester, England > Lawyer Profile
JMW Solicitors LLP Offices
1 BYROM PLACE
SPINNINGFIELDS
MANCHESTER
M3 3HG
England
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James Williams
Work Department
Restructuring & Insolvency
Position
Partner
James has extensive experience in:
- contentious and non-contentious corporate recovery and insolvency;
- all types of distressed business and asset sales and purchases;
- disposal of real property on behalf of office holders, particularly involving complex title issues;
- board advisory and transactional matters, including advice on restructuring, turnaround and director’s duties;
- pursuing and defending officeholder claims against directors;
- distressed lending and refinancing; and
- personal insolvency matters.
Career
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP: 2010 – 2020
JMW Solicitors LLP: 2020 – Present
Education
Durham University
College of Law (York)
Lawyer Rankings
North West > Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
The ‘experienced and diligent’ team at JMW Solicitors LLP has Gavin Jones at its helm, who is marked as having ‘a depth of experience unrivalled by many in Manchester’. It has broad focus on acting on matters in the accountancy and real estate sectors; ‘tenacious advisor’ James Williams has capabilities acting for lenders and practitioners on matters in the property sector in particular. The team has further strengthened its contentious capabilities with the joining of Simon Gerrard, experienced insolvency litigation partner and former team lead at Prosperity Law LLP, in May 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general crime and fraud
- Private client > Family
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment
- Employment > Immigration
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Manchester
- Real estate > Commercial property: Manchester
- Employment > Employment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Manchester
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Real estate > Construction