Jim is a member of the Financial Industry Group, maintaining a global financing practice with a focus on bespoke transactions in specialized lending markets, including fund finance, music royalty, cannabis, healthcare and economic development, mainly for private lenders or specialty groups within banks. He has extensive and invaluable experience with respect to all manner of complex and nuanced financing structures, as well as a depth of knowledge, judgment and acumen with technical, esoteric and knotty legal issues that arise in the transactional finance practice.
Experience
Representative matters
Representative matters
Represented major international recording artist and producer in $93,500,000 royalty-based financing with a leading bank.
Counsel to non-bank lender as agent and lead lender in $80,000,000 financing to entity holding rights to all compositions and royalty streams of deceased recording artist.
Represented a fund-based lead lender in a catalogue acquisition finance facility for catalogue holding entity affiliated with a family of major international recording artists.
Represented major international recording artist and producer in $93,500,000 royalty-based financing with a leading bank.
Counsel to non-bank lender as agent and lead lender in $80,000,000 financing to entity holding rights to all compositions and royalty streams of deceased recording artist.
Represented a fund-based lead lender in a catalogue acquisition finance facility for catalogue holding entity affiliated with a family of major international recording artists.
Borrower’s counsel in secured $400,000,000 credit facility to a Forbes Top Private Companies ranked client engaged in multiple regulated industries including defense contracting, construction and engineering on a global basis.
Counsel to a unique non-profit corporation in multiple tax-exempt financing transactions, undertaken on behalf of public entities, including public schools and convention authorities, for development of public facilities with aggregate value in excess of $500,000,000.
Represented the lender in connection with a $170,000,000 fund finance umbrella transaction for a well-known fund group including more than thirty individual fund borrowers.
Lender counsel to regional bank client’s fund finance group in $50,000,000 agented hybrid facility to multi-jurisdictional fund group.
Represented one of the nation’s leading legal cannabis lenders in a bespoke transaction by which it provides financing to implement the “social equity” mandate of the New York recreational marijuana law, allowing the client’s capital to reach certain individual dispensary licensees through loans to a social equity investment fund.
Recognitions
- Selected through peer review for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© for Banking and Finance Law, 2013-2025. He also received the Best Lawyers™ 2018 Banking and Finance Law "Lawyer of the Year" award in Philadelphia.
- Ranked in Chambers USA for Pennsylvania: Philadelphia & Surrounds Banking & Finance, 2012-2025
- Martindale-Hubbell® peer review rating of AV® preeminent™.
Credentials
Education
Education
- Villanova University School of Law, 1987, J.D., cum laude, Member of the editorial board of the Villanova Law Review, Elected to the Order of the Coif
- Cabrini College, 1982, B.A., English and Communications, magna cum laude
Professional admissions & qualifications
Professional admissions & qualifications
- Pennsylvania