Partner

Stephen James is a Partner and the Group Team Leader of the Banking and Asset Finance team within the Corporate and Commercial Practice Group. His practice includes all aspects of Corporate and Commercial law with specialist expertise in securitisations, inversions, reorganisations, and mergers and acquisitions of private and public companies. He has extensive experience in structured financing and lease transactions as well as dealing with natural resource clients, in particular, oil, gas and energy companies.

Stephen has been consistently ranked as a Leading Individual by Chambers Global since 2007. Clients regard him as “highly responsive and pragmatic with his advice and knowledge about the practical aspects of transactions”. Chambers Global 2010 noted that his peers consider him “a pleasure to work with”. Stephen has also been consistently recognised as an expert in Corporate/M&A and Banking and Finance work by PLC Which Lawyer? since 2007. He was also recognised as a Cayman Islands leading lawyer in the 2009 and 2010 editions of IFLR1000.

Stephen joined Appleby’s Bermuda office as an Associate in 1999 and was advanced to Counsel in 2002. He transferred to the Cayman Islands office in 2004 and became a Partner in 2005. Prior to joining the firm he practised as an Associate with DuMoulin Black, a boutique corporate finance firm in Vancouver from 1994 to 1997, and Senior Vice-President General Counsel with an international publicly listed oil and gas exploration company from 1997 to 1999. Stephen is a member of the Cayman Islands Law Society, the Law Society of British Columbia and the Queensland Law Society.