Jim is the leader of the firm’s Investment Funds practice group. His practice covers various aspects of business law for start-ups and seasoned companies, including mergers and acquisitions, financings, private securities offerings, and antitrust issues.

Jim began his legal practice in 1989 in Silicon Valley where he worked with technology-based companies, venture capital groups and foreign investors. He moved back to North Carolina in 1992, and worked with Hunton & Williams corporate law group before joining the firm in 1996.

Jim graduated cum laude from Duke University, and received his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.