Jim has extensive experience advising clients in general corporate and contractual matters, mergers and acquisitions, and financing transactions.
Overview
Jim has extensive experience advising clients in general corporate and contractual matters, mergers and acquisitions, and financing transactions.
Experience
- Extensive experience in advising clients in general corporate and contractual matters, mergers and acquisitions, and financing transactions.
- Represents various organizations, including healthcare entities, in purchase, sale, merger and other acquisition transactions.
- Advises a large community-based, non-profit, multi-state provider of behavioral health services as to affiliations, financing, general corporate and other matters.
- Regularly provides opinion letters in financing and other transactions.
- Has represented numerous sellers of merchant credit card portfolios.
- Member of the Tennessee Bar Association Task Force that drafted the original Tennessee Limited Liability Company Act.
Distinctions
- BL Rankings, The Best Lawyers in America®
- Corporate Law, 2024-2025
Bar Admissions
- Tennessee, 1985
Education
- University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1985
- Vanderbilt University, B.A., summa cum laude, 1982
Associations
- Tennessee Bar Association
- Nashville Bar Association
- American Bar Association
Papers, Presentations & Publications
- Co-Author with Judge W. Neal McBrayer, "Tennessee Secured Transactions Under Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code: Forms and Practice Manual," Data Trace Publishing, First Edition 2001 (updated annually).
- Author, BNA Corporate Practice Series, “Doing Business in States Other Than State of Incorporation” (Tennessee Chapter), BNA Corporate Practice Series.