James Grimwood
UK Guide 2025
Band 2 : Private Equity: Buyouts: Up to £500 million
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About
Provided by James Grimwood
Practice Areas
James Grimwood is a partner in Goodwin’s Private Equity group. He has extensive experience advising on a wide range of corporate and private equity work, including a wide variety of M&A, leveraged buyouts, minority investments, venture transactions, carve outs, joint ventures and corporate reorganizations. He represents financial institutions, corporates, founders and management teams on transactions of all types and sizes, both domestically and cross-border. He has a wealth of experience handling transactions across a number of different sectors, including technology and communications, media, energy, leisure, healthcare and education.
Career
Prior to joining Goodwin in 2020, Mr. Grimwood was a partner at CMS, where he headed the firm’s Global Private Equity group.
Chambers Review
UK
James Grimwood is deeply knowledgeable in private equity, with the ability to advise on complex M&A, buyouts and strategic investments. His practice encompasses diverse sector expertise and is global in scope.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"James is really excellent."
"James provided very strong client service throughout. He was actively involved in all the complex elements, whilst ensuring we had the appropriate level of support on the less contentious topics."
"James commands more serious clients who are doing bigger transactions. He acts for more sophisticated clients."
"James is really excellent."
"James provided very strong client service throughout. He was actively involved in all the complex elements, whilst ensuring we had the appropriate level of support on the less contentious topics."
"James commands more serious clients who are doing bigger transactions. He acts for more sophisticated clients."