James is a Senior Associate in the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Investigations Group. James specialises in large-scale commercial disputes, financial services disputes, shareholder disputes, investigations and corporate crime matters. 

James has experience advising and representing clients in a broad range of complex domestic and cross-border commercial disputes. James’s practice focuses on commercial disputes and shareholder disputes, as well as white-collar and corporate crime matters. James also has experience in fraud and asset tracing, injunctive relief and recovery, with particular expertise in asset recovery in the digital/crypto-asset space.

James also has experience acting for clients in relation contentious regulatory investigations, internal investigations, corporate enforcement, governance and corruption matters.

James qualified and practiced in the litigation department of another leading commercial firm in Ireland. Prior to joining Arthur Cox in 2025, he practiced offshore in the British Virgin Islands, gaining significant trial experience before its Commercial Court and appearing in hearings before the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal and the Privy Council.

Relevant Experience

• Acting for the successful claimant in obtaining a declaration that a private placement of shares in an NYSE-listed company to be void as carried out for an improper purpose after an expedited trial, upheld on an expedited appeal.
• Acting for the joint liquidators of Three Arrows Capital Limited (formerly the world’s largest cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund), on a range of matters including fraud and breach of duties claims against former directors and cross-border asset recovery in USA, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Cayman Islands
• Acting for the liquidators of subsidiaries of a Chinese technology and semiconductor manufacturer, in a contentious insolvency involving debts in excess of $1Bn
• Acting for an alleged shareholder in proceedings valued at $40M against the joint liquidators of a multinational commodities trader, seeking its removal from the register of members and denying an alleged debt arising from that shareholding
• Acting for the successful respondent in discharging an injunction obtained to restrain the privatisation of NASDAQ-listed company
• Acting for the defendants in a complex shareholder dispute in relation to the alleged under-sale of a pharmaceutical IP from a Chinese company to an offshore entity beneficially owned by the company’s directors.
• Acting for the successful claimant bank in the enforcement of a $30M foreign judgment against a judgment debtor, following a trial