James Enterprises

Strategic and commercial clarity for cross-border business.

James Enterprises works closely with a select group of clients engaged in international business across Europe, the United States and other regions, advising on strategy, marketing and day-to-day commercial execution — the practical work of getting a business understood, sold and run in a market that is not its own.

25+years advising SMEs
internationally
Cross-borderEurope, the United States
and other regions
DirectYou deal with the people
doing the work

What the firm does

Strategy & development

Market entry, positioning, partner and distributor selection, pricing, and the hard question of which opportunities to decline.

Marketing & copywriting

Messaging, campaigns, advertising and the words themselves — written by someone who understands the commercial and legal consequences of a claim.

Sales & business development

Lead generation, pipeline structure, sales materials, and support through negotiation to a signed agreement.

Web development & management

Building and maintaining company websites that are fast, compliant and quiet to own — not projects that need a specialist every quarter.

Experience

Over twenty-five years of international business, conducted across three continents, multiple legal systems and most of the ways a deal can be structured.

25+years in international
business
1000sof cross-border
transactions
EU & USworking in both
markets, daily

At the negotiating table

Countless commercial negotiations on both sides of the Atlantic — supply, distribution, licensing, services and joint venture arrangements — preparing, analysing and negotiating the agreements that hold them together.

Building the commercial side

Market entry, positioning, partner and distributor selection, campaigns, sales programmes and the copy that carries them. The work of making a company legible to a market that has never heard of it.

In the room where it's decided

Strategic counsel and board-level advisory work for companies weighing expansion, restructuring or a change of direction — the questions that get asked before anyone writes an agreement.

Clients

The firm works closely with a select group of clients engaged in international business across Europe, the United States and other regions. Engagements are typically ongoing and long-term, yet we also offer project-based consulting services.

Client work is treated as confidential and client names are not published here. References can be provided where a client has agreed to it.

How it works

One point of contact

Engagements are handled directly by the people who carry them out. Nothing is passed down to a junior team.

Many hats, on purpose

An SME rarely needs a marketing agency, a strategist and a web developer separately. It needs one person who can do all three coherently.

Legal matters kept separate

Where a question is properly legal rather than commercial, it is handled through the affiliated law practice, rbj.law.