James Crooks has been featured in the inaugural edition of The Tech Capital’s 2025 “Legal 50.” The feature highlights leading lawyers in digital infrastructure and the “crucial role that legal expertise plays in driving growth” across the digital economy, celebrating the lawyers whose work is shaping the future of digital infrastructure. James, a partner in Sidley’s London office, focuses his practice on leveraged finance and general debt financing transactions, advising private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers, credit funds, and other financial institutions across an extensive range of debt products including mid and large-cap leveraged financings, public takeover financings, asset-backed financings, stressed and distressed situations, and complex financings into regulated sectors with particular depth of experience in the financial services, insurance, healthcare, pharma, tech, and sports industries in which he has delivered innovative, first-in-kind solutions on some of the most high-profile transactions in the market.~~James Crooks has been featured in the inaugural edition of The Tech Capital’s 2025 “Legal 50.” The feature highlights leading lawyers in digital infrastructure and the “crucial role that legal expertise plays in driving growth” across the digital economy, celebrating the lawyers whose work is shaping the future of digital infrastructure. James, a partner in Sidley’s London office, focuses his practice on leveraged finance and general debt financing transactions, advising private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers, credit funds, and other financial institutions across an extensive range of debt products including mid and large-cap leveraged financings, public takeover financings, asset-backed financings, stressed and distressed situations, and complex financings into regulated sectors with particular depth of experience in the financial services, insurance, healthcare, pharma, tech, and sports industries in which he has delivered innovative, first-in-kind solutions on some of the most high-profile transactions in the market.