James Bagge
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Work Department
Dispute resolution.
Position
James, formerly a senior dispute resolution partner, is now a senior consultant attached to the dispute resolution department. His specialist area is fraud and the regulation of investment and banking business, in particular all forms of investigations, statutory or private, and associated legal proceedings, involving the FSA, the SFO, the DTI and revenue authorities. James is also chief executive of Bvalco Ltd, a joint venture between Norton Rose and the Tavistock Institute; Crelos Ltd; Brian Quinn and James Paterson Associates. Bvalco provides board evaluation services. James’ previous experience includes advising the board of banking supervision on the Barings Inquiry and acting as lead adviser to Ronnie Baird who compiled a report into the FSA’s conduct of the regulation of Equitable Life. Both reports were published in Parliament. He has acted for several leading financial institutions. More generally he acted for the Trustees of the Thyssen Bornemisza Trust in the highly publicised litigation in Bermuda. James was one of the lead partners on the firm’s corporate governance initiative. He acted for a large pharmaceutical company prosecuted with others by the Serious Fraud Office for its alleged involvement in cartel activity with regard to the supply of generic drugs to the NHS.
Career
Began legal career at Criminal Bar; seconded to Serious Fraud Office for two years where he was involved in the prosecution of Guinness and the investigation of Barlow Clowes; Norton Rose 1990 to date; partner 1993; consultant 2011.
Member
FSA External Lawyers Consultative Group; sat for 18 years as legal assessor on Disciplinary Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Practice Areas
Fraud
