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Education
  • Sheffield University (B.A.,1987)
  • College of Law, Chester (LSF,1988)


Bar Admissions
Admitted only in
  • England & Wales

James R. Gubbins James R. Gubbins

Partner
Primary Office: London

Email: jgubbins@mofo.com
Phone: 44 20 7920 4025
Fax: +44 (0)20 7496 8500

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James Gubbins is a UK-qualified partner in the London office of Morrison & Foerster. Mr. Gubbins has more than 17 years of experience in the provision of advice on IPOs and other securities issues, private equity transactions and mergers & acquisitions. His clients include corporates, private equity funds and investment banks.

Mr. Gubbins spent a number of years with Clifford Chance and joined Morrison & Foerster in 2005 from the London office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges.



Representative Matters
  • advising the shareholders of KuDOS, a privately-owned UK biotechnology company, in relation to the $210 million acquisition of KuDOS by Astrazeneca;
  • advising Oxford Biomedica, a gene therapy company, on a proposed placing and open offer and related investment by Sigma-Aldrich to raise £30.1 million;
  • advising ReNeuron, the UK-based adult stem cell research company, on its successful IPO on AIM;
  • advising Silverjet plc on its IPO on AIM raising £24 million; and
  • advising Microscience Holdings PLC and its institutional investors on the sale of Microscience Limited, a privately-held vaccine company to U.S.-based Emergent BioSolutions Inc.