Bio

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 acquisitions and strategic alliances. He represents the U.S. subsidiaries of several foreign companies, including the U.S. subsidiary of a Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed Japanese commercial real estate developer, as their outside general counsel. Jim began his legal career at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and prior to joining Fisher Broyles was a corporate and securities partner at Brown Rudnick LLP and Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.