Thompson Hine LLP

Real Estate/Corporate Transactions & Securities

Jim is a partner in the Real Estate group, chair of the firm’s Real Estate Capital Markets practice and the former partner-in-charge of the firm’s Cleveland office.  He is regularly called upon to represent and advise real estate investment trusts (REITs) and real estate equity funds both transactionally, and in evaluating internal structures to maximize shareholder and investor value.

He also focuses his practice on organizing joint ventures, partnerships, limited liability companies and other pass-through entities; commercial real estate financings, including representation of REMICs and others in securitized offerings; leasing (both retail and commercial); shopping center development and construction; as well as significant acquisitions and divestitures of resort and other lodging and gaming properties.

Case Western Reserve University School of Law, J.D., 1984, Case Western Reserve Law Review, editor in chief, 1983 to 1984; Order of the Coif Bowdoin College, A.B., 1981, cum laude