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.

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

Mr. Cox is a recommended lawyer for Employment law in the 2007-2009 annual editions of Chambers and Partners UK. He is recognised as a leading lawyer by Euromoney's "Labour & Employment Expert Guide" 2007. Mr. Cox has been interviewed on matters relating to employment law on television and radio and has been quoted in both The 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 & Crutcher, Mr. Cox practised as a partner in the Employment, Incentives and Pensions department of a major English law firm.

He is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and the European Employment Lawyers Association.