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HCR Hewitsons Offices

HCR Hewitsons
50-60 Station Road
CB1 2JH
England
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James Lawrence

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01223 461155 jameslawrence@hewitsons.com

Work Department

Corporate.

Position

Partner in corporate department specialising in equity markets and mergers and acquisitions; venture, start-up and development capital, particularly in biotech and technology sector; corporate and banking finance and reconstructions; and employee share option schemes. Practice areas: flotations (small and mid-cap); corporate finance; M&A.

Career

Trained Shoosmiths & Harrison; qualified 1987; Theodore Goddard 1987-97; partner Hewitsons 1998.

Languages

French, German.

Education

Sir Roger Manwoods Grammar School, Sandwich; Leicester University (1984 LLB with French Law); University of Strasbourg (1988 Diploma in French Legal Studies); College of Law, Guildford (1984-85).

Leisure

Cricket, hockey.

Lawyer Rankings

East Anglia > Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Cambridge

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James Lawrence – HCR Hewitsons

Clients of HCR Hewitsons appreciate the firm’s ‘personal service and good communication skills’. Head of the Cambridge office Inger Anson leads the corporate practice and focuses predominantly on early-stage growth funding work. She is ‘highly experienced and quickly gets to the nub of the matter, helping clients to foresee future risks and challenges‘. Partners James Lawrence, whose work includes employment ownership trusts, and Laurence Evans, who handles partnership matters and family offices, also play key roles in the practice. Former head of commercial Nathan Evans departed to Fladgate LLP in April 2023.

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