James Williams > JMW Solicitors LLP > Manchester, England > Lawyer Profile

JMW Solicitors LLP
1 BYROM PLACE
SPINNINGFIELDS
MANCHESTER
M3 3HG
England
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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

JMW Solicitors LLP‘s Manchester-based team is well-equipped to advise its diverse client roster on the processes surrounding the high-value administration of companies. The practice is home to ‘tenacious and terrifyingly efficient’ litigator Simon Gerrard. James Williams is experienced in acting for challenger lenders and insolvency practitioners in property insolvencies. Practice head Gavin Jones is well-regarded for his ‘wealth of experience’, routinely handling bankruptcy matters.