James A. Dressman, III - Partner

James A. Dressman III represents profit and nonprofit entities and individuals in financial transactions, business mergers and asset acquisitions and sales, and real estate acquisitions and development. He provides guidance for entity structuring, reorganization, owner and employee buy/sell arrangements and management and owner successions, with respect to general business and tax matters.  Jim has successfully guided clients through a number of significant matters:

• He represented the owners in the land acquisition, development and financing of the Kentucky Speedway motor sports complex and its subsequent sale to Speedway Motorsports Inc.  He continues to represent the new owners of Kentucky Speedway as it acquires land and expands facilities to accommodate the Sprint Cup Series.
• He has handled various transactions in the healthcare industry including bond financing, physician practice mergers and acquisitions and hospital mergers.
• He has also guided clients in numerous transactions in other industries including the sale of a sports complex in 2007, the strategic purchase by an industrial valve sales and manufacturing company of an industrial valve servicing company, and the acquisition by a specialty paper company of a New England division; and the site acquisition and construction of franchised restaurants.
• He has also assisted several clients with restructuring of family owned businesses and succession planning

 

Jim has extensive and varied experience in representing financial institutions in all types of financing transactions and in special asset workouts.  His experience includes the structuring of a floating restaurant and entertainment complex with U.S. Coast Guard registered vessels on a publicly owned leasehold; and its eventual unwind through bankruptcy with no loss to the financial institutions he represented.

Jim currently is involved in his community and serves on several planned giving and development committees for Thomas More College, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington and Saint Charles Care Center.  He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Freestore Foodbank and the Freestore Foodbank Foundation, the Board of Advisors of the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, past president of Geenup Haus, Inc., a low income nonprofit housing project, and was past president and board member for over 13 years of Senior Services of Northern Kentucky.  He resides in Edgewood, Kentucky with his wife.