James is a Senior Associate in the Real Estate Development & Investment team, acting for mixed use developers, property companies, investment funds and institutional landlords.

He advises on all aspects of commercial property, including conditional sale and purchase agreements, the grant and exercise of options, agreements for lease and pre-lets, acquisition and disposal work, as well as having extensive experience in landlord and tenant and portfolio management work.

Recent experience includes:

• acted for property investment and development company on the acquisition of an east-midlands multi-let industrial and logistics estate.
• acted for property investment and development company on the acquisition of an eight-storey office building in Birmingham.
• acted for various property investment companies on the acquisition of multi-let shopping centres and retail parks across England.
• acted for property fund on the assembly, funding, development and letting of multiple logistics and distribution developments.
• acted for institutional landlords on the leasing and portfolio asset management of various major retail and commercial assets across England.

James joined Shoosmiths in 2019, having previously worked at Eversheds Sutherland where he qualified in 2016.