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.
Private equity transactions – mid-tier – up to £250m
Leading individual - Private Equity: Buyouts: Mid-Market (Band 5): James Goold is experienced in a variety of domestic and international private equity deals, including M&A, LBOs and MBOs. Interviewees appreciate his "sharp intellect and very refined technical skills."
Leading individual - Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment (Band 5)
Leading individual - Private Equity: Buyouts (Band 5): Clients consider James Goold to be a "calm and detailed" practitioner and a "thoroughly good individual." He represents a number of top private equity firms, companies and management teams in LBOs, MBOs and investment matters, among other transactions.
Leading individual - Private Equity (Buyouts) (Band 5): Department head James Goold has a dynamic private equity practice, acting for investor firms, management teams and investee corporates in a diverse array of transactional matters. Clients say: "We are continually impressed by James – he is always ready to go above and beyond to deliver for us."
Private equity transactions – mid-tier – up to £250m
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.
Press releaseWe 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.
Press releaseAdvising Inflexion Private Equity on the sale of portfolio group, Glide.
Press releaseAdvising Rockpool Investments on investment in MomentumABM, an account-based marketing consultancy provider.
Press releaseActing on the restructuring and CVA of the Arcadia group (including Top Shop, Top Man and Miss Selfridge).
Press releaseInflexion Private Equity on the management buyout of leading Dutch IT outsourcing training business Calco Group BV.
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