Tees Law

Commercial Property

Partner

Having trained at a firm in London, James qualified as a solicitor in 1994 and has worked in Bishop’s Stortford, Cambridge and latterly Saffron Walden for most of the time since qualification. James has a wide breadth of experience in commercial property transactions, acting for both corporate clients and also for individuals.
His workload includes acting for developers of residential and mixed use schemes, taking transactions through from first principles through to acquisition, build out and disposal. He also deals with planning and infrastructure documentation for such schemes as well as all aspects of disposals.
He is involved in a number of transactions for agricultural and other land owning clients including the purchase and sale of farms and farmland, strategic options and promotion agreements.
He also has a wide experience of landlord and tenant and general commercial property transactions, including corporate support and refinancing.

Trainee, Turner Kenneth Brown; qualified 1994; Solicitor, Blandy & Blandy, 1994-1995; Locum Solicitor in in-house legal department, London Borough of Lambeth 1995-1996; Solicior, Eversheds LLP (formerly Palmer Wheeldon) (including a secondment at Cambridgeshire County Council) 1996-2003; Solicitor, Tees Law 2003-present (becoming a Partner in 2007)

French.

Cambridge and District Law Society; Secretary and Trustee board member of East Herts Citizens Advice Bureau.

Perse School, Cambridge; University of Southampton, LLB (2:1), 1987-1990; Chester College of Law, Solicitors Final Examination,1990- 1991; Diploma in Commercial Property, 2001 , College of Law

Outside of work, James enjoys real tennis, golf and the theatre.