James McCarthy

Co-Founder at Corvus Group

Speaker

James is a co-founder of the Corvus Group (an independent provider of fund administration, corporate and legal advisory services) and a broadly skilled solicitor with extensive start-up, in-house and top-tier private practice experience.

In addition to managing the Corvus Group, James advises clients in the PE, VC and broader asset management industries across the full spectrum of legal and regulatory issues via Corvus Group's advisory business, Corvus Advisory. James works closely with his clients to identify and capitalise on new business opportunities and develop pragmatic, commercially sensitive yet legally robust solutions which drive growth, manage risk and promote operational efficiencies.

Prior to co-founding Corvus in September 2019, James was the General Counsel of a VC backed, alternative investment marketing business. Before assuming that role, James headed the legal team of a large, independent, closed-ended fund administration business, having spent the first decade of his career in private practice in the City. Qualifying in September 2006 and initially practising as a general finance lawyer with Taylor Wessing, James moved to leading US firm Latham & Watkins in 2011 to focus on leveraged acquisitions. His time at Latham included a six month secondment as the sole deal execution lawyer on Deutsche Bank’s London-based leveraged finance desk.

James holds a LLB from the University of Leeds, completed the LPC at the College of Law (now the University of Law) and qualified as a ski instructor in 2011.