James Goold

James is a private equity lawyer and a member of our UK Executive Board. Clients value his commercial awareness and clear-thinking in difficult situations. James's focus is on domestic and crossborder private equity transactions, where he mainly works for institutional investors, investee companies and management teams.

James is recognised as a leading private equity lawyer in the UK. He works across the UK, EU and international private equity sectors, and is experienced with management buyouts and buyins, leveraged buyouts, and venture and development capital investments acting for institutional investors, management teams, and investee companies. James can help you with all your corporate transactions including M&A, joint ventures, refinancings and other special situation investment opportunities.In his capacity as a Board Director, James is responsible for a number of the firm's practice areas in the UK, including Corporate.

CV

Since 2017 Board Director, Taylor Wessing

2014 - 2017 Head of Private Equity, Taylor Wessing

2012 - 2014 Partner, Taylor Wessing

Career

Since 2017 Board Director, Taylor Wessing

2014 - 2017 Head of Private Equity, Taylor Wessing

2012 - 2014 Partner, Taylor Wessing

Education

1996 Admitted as a lawyer, England & Wales

1994 Legal Practice Course, College of Law

1993 Common Professional Exam, College of Law

Awards

Legal 500 UK 2022

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Chambers UK 2020

Chambers UK 2019

Experience

Supporting Inflexion's sale of Xtrac

We advised leading mid-market private equity firm Inflexion, and the group's senior management team, on the sale of Xtrac, a market-leading manufacturer of transmissions systems for the motorsport and high-performance sectors.

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James Goold

Alexandra Poland

Alex Walker

Alice Picton

Supporting Inflexion's partnership with TC Group

We advised leading mid-market private equity firm Inflexion on its investment into Accountancy Age's ‘Top 30’ firm, TC Group, a provider of accountancy and taxation services to UK SMEs.

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James Goold

Alexandra Poland

Sarah Wallace