James O'Connell

Solicitor

James specialises in assisting businesses and anyone wanting to start a business. He also specialises in crypto-currencies and block chain.

If you want assistance with any aspect of business life then James would be delighted to speak with you, for example:

Starting and running your business
Guidance on tricky shareholder/management questions
Protecting your assets through contract, trademarks or copyright
Handling employment issues
Writing or reviewing a wide variety of commercial contracts
Anything connected with crypto-currencies or block chain generally

Qualified as a solicitor in both England/Wales and Hong Kong, James has practiced law internationally and in the City (where he trained as a solicitor, and later worked for a private equity house). Having created and sold several companies himself, he understands the commercial and practical realities of setting up and running a business.

James has had a varied career: he founded the Institute of Paralegals; was the first lay member of the City of Westminster Council’s Standards Committee and helped establish an Equality and Human Rights Commission working group to promote diversity in the professions.

He has made numerous presentations, including to the Vietnamese government on anti-counterfeiting law and was a member of a Hong Kong government advisory panel. He has published many articles and edited an FT Law & Tax book on management.

James has been very active in legal education, having been an Adjunct Professor to Syracuse University’s law school, an Associate Professor of Law at City University in Hong Kong and a law tutor for ICE at the University of Cambridge.

When not working James likes to relax to the point where, on occasion, he seems to be half man, half sofa. This doesn’t happen too often as he has a young family and Fellowship of the Royal Geographical Society to contend with.

Specialisms:

Business law
Crypto-currencies & block chain

James O'Connell

Solicitor
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"James. Well done! A complete vindication of your approach to this thorny problem!"

John Mead, October 2018

“Thank you so much for your help yesterday. It was so very valuable to be able to see some light at the end of what is still a rather long tunnel… All the best for your very good work”

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