James is a principal associate in our construction and engineering group. He has extensive experience of a range of development finance and corporate real estate matters, including acting for lenders, borrowers, forward funders and developers, sellers, purchasers, landlords and tenants. James leads on and co-ordinations the construction aspects, and plays an integral role on some of the wider team’s most challenging development finance and real estate transaction mandates. Recent experience includes: acting for private lending syndicates in respect of the financing of separate London and Birmingham-based mixed-use developments worth hundreds of millions of pounds; acting for a group of clearing banks in respect of the financing of residential developments at multiple UK sites worth hundreds of millions of pounds; acting for a tier 1 contractor in respect of its joint venture delivering housing across multiple UK sites (which utilised various modern methods of construction); acting separately for global legal, pharmaceutical and sportwear companies in respect of their respective new and refitted headquarters; acting for a global real estate company in respect of a corporate sale including London offices; and acting for a global logistics company as landlord in respect of a purpose-built industrial park in the Thames Valley.

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