James specialises in financial services litigation and contentious financial regulation. He heads TLT’s Financial Services Investigations and Contentious Regulatory practice and is TLT’s Wellbeing and Consumer Duty Champion. James is recognised as a Leading Partner in Legal 500.

He routinely advises market-leading financial institutions and their senior managers on a range of regulatory investigations, including internal and whistleblowing investigation. His experience spans all aspects of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime, the FCA and PRA Code of Conduct and associated fitness and propriety issues.

His wider contentious regulatory practice includes complex advisory, strategic and risk management work. James has extensive experience advising across a broad range of regulatory issues including conduct and culture, systems and controls, regulatory reporting, operational resilience, fraud, mis-selling and the treatment of customers. He has supported a range of clients as lead partner in connection with major rectification and remediation projects, Section 166 reviews, past business reviews, change programmes and investigations into the adequacy of remediation activity following enforcement action.