James Lockwood

James Lockwood is a litigation and dispute resolution lawyer based in London. He focuses on banking and finance, civil fraud and commercial litigation and arbitration.

James regularly acts for banks, financial institutions, corporates and fintechs helping them navigate a wide range of complex, cross-border and contentious matters. In particular, James advises on: all aspects of banking and finance disputes, including those involving derivatives, trade finance and commodities, civil fraud, debt capital markets, sanctions, de-banking, restructuring and insolvency, and syndicated lending; civil fraud, asset-tracing and enforcement matters (including a number of ongoing bribery, conspiracy and dishonest assistance claims as well as payment fraud disputes and applications for freezing orders, prohibitory injunctions, delivery-up, third party disclosure orders, committal, and other ancillary relief); all types of merchant and customer disputes for payment clients; and crypto-assets, blockchain and de-fi disputes for fintech clients.

He also has significant experience defending high-value group action litigations.

James is a Solicitor-Advocate with higher rights of audience in the courts of England and Wales (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings).

Before joining us, James spent over nine years at a magic circle firm. He has completed secondments to the in-house litigation and investigation teams of two major international banks.