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James Grimwood

Position
Partner
Career
James Grimwood is a partner in Goodwin’s Private Equity group. He has extensive experience advising on a wide range of corporate and private equity work, including a wide variety of M&A, leveraged buyouts, minority investments, venture transactions, carve outs, joint ventures, and corporate reorganizations. He represents financial institutions, corporates, founders and management teams on transactions of all types and sizes, both domestically and cross-border. He has a wealth of experience handling transactions across a number of different sectors, including technology and communications, media, energy, leisure, healthcare, and education.
Prior to joining Goodwin in 2020, James was a partner at CMS, where he headed the firm’s Global Private Equity group.
Education
LPC, 1997, College of Law London, LLB, 1996, King’s College London
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
- Real estate > Property finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap