Simmons & Simmons

James specialises in loan and capital markets products. He acts across a broad range of products including transactions involving UK domestic and international secured and unsecured loans and debt securities, securitisations and other asset backed transactions and convertible, exchangeable and other debt capital markets instruments and amendments and restructurings of such transactions.

James is a partner in the Firm’s Financial Markets group in London team. He tends now to act primarily for trustees, agents, security agents, cash managers and other service providers but he has many years of experience acting for arrangers, bank, fund and other lenders and/or investors, borrowers, issuers and other market counterparties.

He has many years of experience of working with derivative and fund products, different assets classes and transaction structures and the principles of trust law as they apply to financing transactions. This together with his detailed knowledge of loan and capital markets products means that he is able to advise clients on the most complex structures involving multiple types and varieties of debt funding and help them navigate their way through the peculiarities of different products and different markets. It also means he is expertly placed to support clients working out what to do if and when things do not go according to plan, and/or when parties need to amend or restructure deals, and/or when they start to go wrong and the issues which need to be considered when entering into assignments, transfers or participations of interests in loans.

Qualified 1986; partner 1992.