Our Team

James Fairley

James is an experienced corporate and commercial lawyer and has worked for large firms and businesses in London, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Canada, representing a range of clients from large multinationals to small business owners. His focus is on providing robust, practical and affordable advice to clients.

Qualifications:

  • Solicitor in England & Wales

Recent Experience:

  • Negotiating a wide variety of contracts, including NDAs, SaaS agreements, terms and conditions, licensing agreements and data protection agreements for a UK software company.

  • Negotiating licensing agreements, service agreements, consulting agreements, terms and conditions, NDAs and heads of terms, GDPR and employment matters, establishing new business units overseas, and acquisitions and reorganisation for a large education group.

  • Intra-group reorganisation and rationalisation for a large software business and the restructuring of a global beverage group’s European financing.

Hemanth Mirpuri

Hemanth has trained with and worked for Magic Circle and American firms in London and Hong Kong. He has represented a wide variety of clients ranging from large multinationals to small family businesses acquiring and disposing of assets.  A small business owner himself, he understands the pressures that many business owners face in terms of time and cost.

Qualifications:

  • Solicitor in England & Wales

  • Solicitor in Hong Kong SAR

Recent Experience:

  • Mandate for corporate and commercial work for the LycaGroup, including disposals of various companies across the globe and restructuring multiple businesses.

  • Disposal of a dark fibre asset in the DRC on behalf of an African telco company.

  • Philips's disposal of its global TV manufacturing business to TPV

Publications

  • “Direction of Foreign Investment is Key to a New Phase of Growth” – Financial Times