James Dutson

James joined in July 2023 as General Counsel, where he leads the legal function supporting all VIRTUS business operations

James is in his second career after starting is first in the military over 25 years ago, where he enjoyed over seven years as an army officer, specialising in logistics. After some time back in full-time education, his legal career has since taken him from private practice as a real estate lawyer with Osborne Clarke, Wragge & Co and Taylor Wessing to generalist in-house roles with Wildstone Capital and EY before entering the data centre space with Global Switch, where he spent three and a half years as their European legal counsel.