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James Irvine
Work Department
Banking.
Position
James is a multi-specialist corporate finance lawyer with emphasis on real estate finance (including hotels), restructuring, general banking and asset based lending. James now acts primarily for banks, other financial institutions and borrowers on a range of mainstream transactions and he has both transactional and general advisory experience.
Career
trained: Slaughter and May, qualified 2002; associate Slaughter and May 2002-08; senior associate SNR Denton UK LLP (Formerly Denton Wilde Sapte) 2008-11, partner Dentons UKMEA LLP (formerly SNR Denton UK LLP) 2011-present.
Languages
French (conversational).
Memberships
Law Society.
Education
University of Cambridge (MA 1994); College of Law (CPE 1998, LPC 1999); King’s College London (postgraduate diploma 2005).
Lawyer Rankings
London > Real estate > Property finance
Led by James Irvine and Simon Tweedle, the ‘responsive, pragmatic and experienced’ practice at Dentons
regularly advises international clients on cross-border financing and refinancing deals concerning offices, hotels, and build-to-rent developments. Irvine often handles financings and restructurings, while Tweedle – described by clients as ‘a pleasure to deal with, responsive, pragmatic and experienced’ – recently advised a European residential real estate company on English sustainability-linked financing legislation. Simon Masri regularly advises banks, real estate developers, and investment managers on cross-border refinancing transactions. Other key figures include Jason Sheard, who advises on commercial terms for sales and purchases in leisure sector.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Employment > Health and safety
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Patent attorneys
- Transport > Rail
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Risk advisory > Corporate governance
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Renewables
- Finance > Securitisation
- Finance > Trade finance
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Artificial intelligence
- Finance > Asset based lending
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Environment
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Finance > Islamic finance
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Real estate > Planning
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity and nuclear)
- Real estate > Property finance
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Industry focus > TMT
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Employment > Health and safety
- Employment > Immigration
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Trade mark attorneys
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport