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Jim has over 25 years’ experience representing investors, developers, and owners in the acquisition, development, construction, financing, and leasing of all types of commercial real estate.
Experience
Representative matters
Representative matters
Assisted a senior housing REIT in the acquisition and financing, through a RIDEA structure, of over 100 senior living facilities (i.e., assisted living, independent living and memory care) with a value in excess of $2.2 billion over the past several years.
Assisted an investment management firm in the acquisition and development of medical outpatient buildings, ambulatory surgery centers and specialty hospitals with a value in excess of $1 billion over the past several years.
Representing a multifamily and student housing developer in connection with the acquisition, financing, development and construction of projects in various states through programmatic joint ventures with institutional equity providers. Recent transactions include the development of a mixed-use project including multifamily and life science buildings on a campus in Massachusetts, the development of an urban transit-oriented, mixed-use project in Arizona with a value of $450 million, and the acquisition of a portfolio of three communities in Arizona and Texas for $198 million.
Representative Experience
Assisted a senior housing REIT in the acquisition and financing, through a RIDEA structure, of over 100 senior living facilities (i.e., assisted living, independent living and memory care) with a value in excess of $2.2 billion over the past several years.
Assisted an investment management firm in the acquisition and development of medical outpatient buildings, ambulatory surgery centers and specialty hospitals with a value in excess of $1 billion over the past several years.
Representing a multifamily and student housing developer in connection with the acquisition, financing, development and construction of projects in various states through programmatic joint ventures with institutional equity providers. Recent transactions include the development of a mixed-use project including multifamily and life science buildings on a campus in Massachusetts, the development of an urban transit-oriented, mixed-use project in Arizona with a value of $450 million, and the acquisition of a portfolio of three communities in Arizona and Texas for $198 million.
Represented a developer in the acquisition of a mixed-use project consisting of two large multifamily apartment buildings, parking garage and retail spaces for $98 million, which project was acquired through a joint venture with an institutional equity partner, and financed through the assumption of an existing mortgage loan.
Represented a national senior housing REIT in completing the final closing of a $485 million transaction involving the acquisition of 25 senior housing facilities in Michigan. All the facilities are now owned through a RIDEA (REIT) structure in joint venture with its new operator partner.
Represented an institutional lender in connection with the financing of an acquisition of 275 industrial facilities by a public REIT with a loan value in excess of $1 billion.
Represented a private equity investor in the acquisition of 50 life sciences facilities for a purchase price in excess of $135 million
Represented financial institutions in the workout and restructuring of preferred equity investments and loans in excess of $100 million on shopping centers, office buildings, condominium/townhouse projects and single family residential projects in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and Florida.
Represented various developers in the development and financing of wind and solar power projects in various states
Recognitions
Ranked in Chambers USA for Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds Real Estate, 2022-2026 (conferred by Chambers and Partners). Methodology described at chambers.com.*
*No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
Credentials
Education
Education
- University of New Hampshire School of Law, J.D.
- Gettysburg College, B.A., Accounting and Finance
Professional admissions & qualifications
Professional admissions & qualifications
- Pennsylvania
- New Jersey
Court admissions
Court admissions
- U.S. District Court - District of New Jersey
Professional affiliations
Professional affiliations
- Urban Land Institute
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Civic and Charitable Affiliations
- ACHIEVEability, Board of Directors and Chair, Development Committee
- The Trust for Public Land, National Pro Bono Counsel