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Band 2
About
Provided by James Potts
Practice Areas
James specialises in commercial litigation and arbitration, with particular expertise in civil fraud, banking, financial services, sanctions, financial crime, cryptoassets, gambling, art and cultural heritage, company and shareholder disputes, energy, professional negligence, regulatory and professional disciplinary law, and commercial judicial review. Much of his work is international, including in the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Caribbean. Recent highlights include Morina v Scherbakova (proving validity of a missing wil for a large estate), Ambon v Finch (accounting fraud by the former directors and owners of an insurance broker), Tugushev v Orlov and Roth (dispute over Russia’s largest fishing group), AXA SA v Genworth Financial International Holdings (£500+ million share purchase agreement dispute relating to PPI), Medsted Associates Ltd v Canaccord Genuity (claim concerning fiduciary duties of brokers), Medlands (PTC) Ltd v St John’s Trust Company (Pvt) Ltd (trust litigation in Bermuda), and BML Properties Ltd v China Construction America (dispute over the $3.5 bilion Baha Mar resort in the Bahamas).
Career
Called 2011 (Gray’s Inn)
Professional Memberships
COMBAR, ChBA, FSLA, LCLCBA, Art Lawyers Association, PAIAM, MCIArb
Publications
Cryptoassets litigation chapter in Banking Litigation (5th edn, forthcoming in 2025), cryptoassets regulation chapter in Financial Services Law (5th edn, forthcoming in 2024), Sanctions sanctions chapter in Paget's Law of Banking (2023), Judgments judgments chapter in Phipson on Evidence (20th edn, 2021), Decision decision to Prosecute prosecute chapter in Regulatory and Disciplinary Proceedings (10th edn, 2019)
Personal
EDUCATION - MA (University of Oxford), MA (University of London), MPhil (University of Cambridge), Dip.Law (City University).
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