
biography
Jim is a partner in FisherBroyles’ corporate department. He has more than 30 years’ experience advising investors, entrepreneurs, startups, and middle-market businesses on mergers and acquisitions, complex restructurings and reorganizations, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and private equity and venture capital transactions. Jim also regularly advises clients on executive employment agreements and equity-based compensation arrangements, family business formation and succession arrangements, state and federal securities regulation, stockholder agreements, LLC and partnership agreements, commercial real estate transactions, and general business contract preparation and review.
Jim has represented clients in a broad spectrum of industries, including aerospace, biotechnology, cannabis, commercial real estate, computer software, consumer goods, electronics, financial services, hospitality, insurance, multimedia and entertainment, pharmaceutical, resort acquisition and development, sports, and telecommunications.
Jim has business-level fluency in written and spoken Japanese and is experienced in representing domestic and foreign clients in cross-border business a...
New York
Credentials
Admissions
New York
California
Connecticut
Education
Columbia Law School, J.D., 1985
Brown University, B.A., 1979
Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow, University of Tokyo Faculty of Law, 1985-1986
Prior Law Firm Experience
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Brown Rudnick LLP
Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.