James McCarroll Bio

Jim is the leader of our Investment Management Team. He also is a partner in the firm's Financial Industry Group, and the Commercial Restructuring & Bankruptcy Group. Jim’s diversified practice includes representation of athletes and entertainers in connection with investments, major transactions and disputes. Jim began his legal career in Washington, D.C., as a member of the Honors Attorney Program with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's (PBGC) Office of the General Counsel. Upon returning to New York in 2000, he joined Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel's Commercial Restructuring & Bankruptcy Group. In 2005, Jim joined Reed Smith. In addition to his work directly on behalf of clients, Jim is active in charitable fundraising and children's and environmental causes worldwide. The broad spectrum of experience found within the Investment Management Group that Jim chairs spans the most currently relevant substantive areas of law, including, to list but a few examples: investment management and banking regulation; securities regulation and compliance; litigation, arbitration, mediation and other alternative dispute resolution mechanisms; restructuring and liquidation; derivatives and structured products documentation, analysis and dispute resolution; fund formation; portfolio transactions; investment adviser activity; broker-dealer issues; trust and fiduciary matters; product development; and the evolving field of hedge fund, mutual fund, and funds of funds merger & acquisitions.