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James A. Dressman III
Partner


jdressman@dbllaw.com
(859) 426-2150
(859) 341-4879 (Fax)



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James A. Dressman III represents profit and non-profit 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 seller in the multi-million dollar sale of Turfway Park thoroughbred race course.

  • He represented the owners in the land acquisition, development and financing of the Kentucky Speedway motor sports complex.  

  • During 2007, he handled a wide variety of transactions as small as $100,000 and as large as $500,000,000 including the acquisition of a large physician practice by a non-profit hospital and the sale of a sports training and fitness complex.


    Jim currently is 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 Advisors of the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, current president of the Greenup Haus, Inc., a low income non-profit housing project, and was past president and board member of Senior Services of Northern Kentucky.  He resides in Edgewood, Kentucky, with his wife.

  • Areas of Practice

    Banking and Commercial
    Business Organization and Taxation
    Estate Planning and Probate
    Real Estate

    Admitted to Practice

    Commonwealth of Kentucky
    State of Ohio
    U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky
    U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio
    U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit

    Professional Memberships

    Kentucky Bar Association
    Northern Kentucky Bar Association
    Ohio State Bar Association
    National Lawyers Association
    Kentucky Banker's Association (Bank Counsel Division)
    Association for Capital Growth

    Education

    J.D., University of Kentucky (1977)
    B.A., Thomas More College (cum laude, 1974)

    Speaking Engagements

    Legal Documentation Seminar to employees of Huntington National Bank in the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Region (January, 1995) and on real estate title insurance to the same group (1996)

    "10 Ways Seniors Mess Up Their Finances," an estate planning workshop sponsored by the Catholic Diocese of Covington (March, 2003)

    "Case Study:  The St. Elizabeth Medical Center Acquisition of Patient First Physicians Group" at the Fourth Annual Physician Agreement & Ventures (November, 2007 in Chicago) sponsored by Renaisance American Management, Inc and BeardGroup.

    Awards and Honors

    Cincy Business Magazine's Leading Lawyers in Banking in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.

    Martindale-Hubbell Rating

    AV Peer Review Rated

     
     

     

     

     

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