Jim is the former managing partner and current DBL Law partner practicing extensively in the areas of Banking & Commercial, Business & Transactional, Estate Planning & Probate, Real Estate and Tax Planning & Compliance. He represents profit and nonprofit entities and individuals in financial transactions, business mergers and asset acquisitions and sales, and real estate acquisitions, and simple and complex development projects. Jim works with clients on estate planning and probate matters as well as general business and tax matters. He also provides guidance for entity structuring, reorganization, owner and employee buy/sell arrangements, and management and owner succession.
Jim has successfully guided clients through a number of significant matters, including:
Jim has extensive and varied experience in representing financial institutions in all types of financing transactions and in troubled asset workouts. Jim’s experience includes the structuring of financing 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 has always been active in the community and has served and continues to serve on a number of charitable and community boards. He resides in Edgewood, Kentucky with his wife and has three children and nine grandchildren. Jim also annually leads a mission trip to Jacob’s Ladder, a residential community in Jamaica for severely disabled adults operated by Mustard Seed Communities, where his team has been constructing new residencies.
