James joined ONTIER LLP in 2022 as a partner in our Litigation team. He is an experienced litigator having worked onshore and offshore (in the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands) on complex, multi-jurisdictional commercial litigation and arbitration. James has acted for clients on high-value claims, including institutional investors, insolvency practitioners, directors and shareholders. For many years, he worked on the Bernard Madoff litigation where his previous firm acted as Special Counsel to Trustee of Bernard Madoff Investment Securities LLC and the Estate of Bernard Madoff with claims of tens of billions of dollars. Before joining ONTIER LLP, James appeared regularly before the BVI and Cayman courts, where he represented clients on a range of commercial matters, including obtaining urgent injunctive relief and the enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitrary awards.