Areas of Expertise
James is an associate in Maples and Calder’s Corporate team in the Maples Group’s Dublin office. James advises on a wide range of corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity investments, corporate restructurings and shareholder matters.
James joined the Maples Group in 2016 as a trainee and joined the Corporate Group on qualification in 2019. James has been recognised as a ‘Key Lawyer’ with The Legal 500 EMEA.
“James is at all times available and supportive throughout workstreams which has been critically important on a number of challenging assignments.” (The Legal 500 EMEA 2024)
- Altify on its sale to Upland Software
- Asavie on its sale to Akamai Technologies
- Beats Medical on fundraising and various commercial matters
- Boxever on its sale to Sitecore
- Buymie on its funding round led by ACT Venture Capital, and its investment led by the Wheatsheaf Group
- Clavis Insight on its sale to Ascential plc
- Firmwave on its sale to Taoglas
- Great Point Partners on the recapitalisation of SteriPack Group
- NearForm on its investment led by Columbia Capital
- NewsWhip on various private fundraisings
- Sharp Fluidics® on the acquisition of the neoClose® device and all associated IP
- Susquehanna Growth Equity on its investments in Phorest and Poppulo
- UrbanVolt on its €7m funding round led by Irish Strategic Investment Fund
Professional Activities
Society of Young Solicitors, Secretary, 2019/2020
Bar Admissions
2019 – Law Society of Ireland
Education
University College Cork, BCL (Law and Irish), 2015