James A. Cox

James A. Cox is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he serves as Co-Partner-in-Charge of the office. He is a member of the firm's Labor and Employment Practice Group.

Mr. Cox has extensive experience in contentious and non-contentious labor and employment matters, with an emphasis on cross-border employment issues, collective labor and industrial disputes, redundancies and workforce restructurings, ARD/TUPE, the employment aspects of public and private mergers and acquisitions and outsourcing arrangements, corporate governance matters, boardroom appointments and removals, contractor and directorship matters, employment issues facing private equity companies, whistle-blowing, equal pay and other discrimination claims, worker consultation, enforcing and resisting post-employment restrictive covenants, and protecting confidential information from misuse by current and former employees. Mr. Cox also advises on data privacy and data protection issues.

Mr. Cox is a recommended lawyer in the category of Employment law in the 2007-2012 annual editions of Chambers and Partners UK. He is also recognised as a leading lawyer by Best Lawyers International 2012 in the field of Employment, by Euromoney's Labour & Employment Expert Guide and by UK Legal Experts 2011. Mr. Cox has been interviewed on matters relating to employment law on television and radio and has been quoted in The Times, The Sunday Times and Financial Times newspapers on employment law issues. He lectures regularly on behalf of the Employment Lawyers Association and at commercial conferences.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Cox practiced as a partner in the Employment, Incentives and Pensions department of a major English law firm.