James undertakes a variety of complex corporate and commercial work in the State and Federal Courts of Australia. He acts for a broad range of domestic and international clients including ASX200-listed companies, high net-worth individuals, directors, shareholders, company liquidators, banks and government entities. James has experience in construction litigation, class actions, arbitration, contract law, competition and consumer law, insolvency, corporations law, and trusts and administrative law.
James has been listed in the Best Lawyers® Australia (2022-24) for construction litigation. He is an associate member of CIArb and has recently been engaged in several large class actions (for plaintiffs and defendants) involving shareholder actions for misleading and deceptive conduct, pure economic loss arising from large-scale infrastructure projects, and the application of competition law to state-owned electricity generators.
Before joining Level Twenty Seven Chambers, James worked at Linklaters in London, and at Corrs Chambers Westgarth and Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Brisbane. He was an associate to Chief Justice Keane (as his Honour then was) in the Federal Court of Australia.
James graduated from the University of Queensland in 2010 with a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Economics (Hons) with the University Medal. He also holds a Bachelor of Civil Law (Distinction) from the University of Oxford.