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Practice Area
- Bankruptcy
Additional Practice Area
- Bankruptcy & Business Restructuring
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- Massachusetts
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- Massachusetts, 1990
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Professional Experience
- Partner
- Ropes & Gray
- Current
- Current
- Jim has more than 15 years experience representing debtors and creditors, including bondholders, trade creditors, secured creditors, landlords, creditors' committees, licensors of intellectual property, acquirers of distressed assets, government agencies and others. Past engagements include representation of(i) Holley Performance Products, Inc. in connection withconversion of$145 million ofSecond Lien Notes to debt and equity pursuant to a prepackaged plan of reorganization, (ii) equity holders of Icon Health Fitness, Inc. in connection with a new investment and exchange offer for $100 million of public debt, utilizing a prepackaged Chapter 11 plan of reorganization as an alternative to induce minority bondholders to participate in the exchange, (iii) Harcourt General, Inc. in the Chapter 11 case of GC Companies, Inc. in connection with $200 million of potential liability under guarantees of long term movie theater leases, (iv) the purchaser of USinternetworking, Inc. through a Chapter 11 plan of reorganization that merged the company with Interpath Communications, Inc., (v) the equity sponsor and subordinated lender to American Hospitality Concepts, Inc., a restaurant operator and franchisor, (vi) the Official Unsecured Creditors’ Committee of Grand Union, a supermarket chain, and (vii) Cadkey Corporation, a software company and Chapter 11 debtor. On the transactional side, Jim regularly represents licensors and licensees of patents, trademarks and other intellectual property in connection with transaction structures and documentation to minimize insolvency risk as well as secured lenders.
Education
- Boston College Law Review
- J.D.
- cum laude
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- Bucknell University
- B.A.
- cum laude
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