James Davies

Practice Areas

James' practice encompasses commercial litigation, company and shareholder disputes, insolvency and wills and trusts disputes.

Career

Called to the Bar 2004. James is an experienced commercial and traditional chancery barrister with an established County Court and High Court practice.

Prior to coming to the Bar, James qualified as a Chartered Accountant specialising in SMEs. Many of his cases feature complex financial elements or multi-generational family business disputes which draw on this expertise: “he’s brilliant on detail. He’s particularly good where there is a debate over figures or where there are issues over complex transactions” and “methodical and thorough in high-value disputes”. He has been consistently ranked in Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners for commercial litigation.

James also has an established practice as a mediator, having successfully mediated a number of business and chancery disputes.

Professional Memberships

Chancery Bar Association

International Bar Association

R3 (Member)

STEP (Affiliate Member)

ICAEW (Fellow)

STEP Advanced Certificate in Trusts Disputes

STEP Certificate in the Taxation of Trusts

Publications

Editor of the Surveyors and Accountants chapters of the Encyclopaedia of Professional Partnerships by Sweet & Maxwell

Regular contributor to LexisNexis PSL and LexisNexis Webinars

Personal

Awards

2003 – Lord Denning Scholar

Professional Appointments

2016 - Qualified Mediator